The Menu
Interviews with top chefs, food innovators, and producers. Discover ingredients, trends, and stories shaping the world of food and drink.
Latest Episodes
Sit down with Enrique Olvera
A meeting with world-famous Mexican chef Enrique Olvera who is launching a new restaurant in New York, we visit a restaurant that wants to prove that there is more variation to paella than you…
MAD4 Symposium special
MAD4 Symposium special: we are in Copenhagen to speak to the most interesting chefs, food producers and thinkers attending the annual event spearheaded by Noma’s René Redzepi.
Blurring bars with restaurants
We hear about a new concept in Milan that blurs the lines between traditional Italian restaurants and after-hours bars, meet restaurant critic and food writer Jay Rayner to shoot down myths about good food…
Soil: the new ingredient
We revisit the Science of Taste Symposium that took place in Copenhagen, dig up a Torontonian restaurant that uses soil as an ingredient and check in on the latest airplane-food innovations.
Rounding up beer with Will Hawkes
Chef Paul Liebrandt tells us about his new restaurant in Brooklyn, The Elm, journalist Will Hawkes swings by the studio armed with a round of brews to tell us about the London Beer City…
Shaking up Austrian baking
We are in Vienna to meet three sisters who want to challenge Austrian baking traditions, get of the latest on London’s cold-brew coffee front and visit one of the most successful hop farms in…
Portland’s food-and-drink scene
Portland special: We meet the people who make up the food-and-drink scene in Oregon’s most populous city, including Camas Davis, founder of Portland Meat Collective, the recent James Beard Award winner Naomi Pomeroy of…
Rio’s evolving favelas
We are in Rio to hear how food culture is changing in the city’s favelas. Pus, we visit a new Berlin space that combines food and art and get Vietnamese advice on how to…
Bompas & Parr’s quest to save British menus
We’re in Vienna to see how conservative Austrian eaters are getting into the taste of experimental dining. We also hear how food-art duo Bompas & Parr are trying to save the heritage of British…
San Francisco special
A San Francisco special: Alice Waters, mother of the farm-to-table movement, takes a look at how technology might change the way you dine. We also visit Double 8 Dairy, the only producer of water-buffalo…
