The Menu
Interviews with top chefs, food innovators, and producers. Discover ingredients, trends, and stories shaping the world of food and drink.
Latest Episodes
A Palestinian diet
We learn about the local Palestinian diet, find out what goes into a quality cup of tea and visit an American chef in Milan.
The best India has to offer
We sample the best of Indian cuisine, Japanese ex-footballer Hidetoshi Nakata talks sake and we chat to the founder of New York’s PDT bar.
The future of Chinese food
The future of Chinese cooking, we speak to an exotic fruits grower in Croatia and check out New Zealand’s food scene.
Social culinary communities
We travel to Berlin for a look at social communities built around food, sample traditional Patagonian cooking and check out Copenhagen’s thriving restaurant scene.
An Olympic pop-up
We visit a French restaurant in Kabul, discuss the Danes’ love for local ingredients and visit a pop-up restaurant preparing for the London 2012 Olympics.
With a plate of Smørrebrød
A tour of Copenhagen’s many Michelin-starred restaurants and we sit down with a Danish designer over a plate of Smørrebrød.
New York vs Italy: pizza
We visit a New York speakeasy, meet the New Yorker trying to trump Italians at pizza and enjoy an innovative restaurant in Thessaloniki.
Pop-up popularity
The organic movement in Buenos Aires, we learn why pop-ups are so popular in Berlin and discuss English wine with Julia Stafford of Wine Pantry.
Thai’s food future
Jewish food in Tunis, the popularity of fish at Berlin’s most popular cornershop deli and the Bangkok chef looking to the future of Thai food.
Translating Western food
Europe’s first fully vegan supermarket, how Delhi translates western food culture and we chat with food critic Jay Rayner.
