The Menu
Interviews with top chefs, food innovators, and producers. Discover ingredients, trends, and stories shaping the world of food and drink.
Latest Episodes
Portugal’s designer pastries
How Portugal’s design and pastries share common qualities, we sample Austria’s fuity drink Sturm and enjoy a meal where scent matters as much as taste.
Iceland in London
A visit to the restaurant causing a buzz in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, we discover Icelandic burgers in London and check out Tel Aviv’s coffee culture.
Rediscovering offal
We discuss Japanese bento box meals, Latin-American cuisine in Europe and we also head to Berlin to find out how local restaurants are rediscovering offal.
How to run a successful restaurant
Chat with Paris-based British chef Rachel Khoo, we investigate sustainable eating in Berlin and Peru and find out how to run a successful restaurant.
Spanish cuisine with José Pizarro
Top Spanish chef José Pizarro discusses the nation’s cuisine, we hear about local coffee in Jerusalem and meet winemakers from California’s Livermore Valley.
A hummus history
We visit a Chicago restaurant that doubles as a farm, get the latest on Russian coffee trends and try to find out who invented hummus.
Going through coffee academy
We visit the Coffee Academy in Berlin, hear from the architects that redesigned Copenhagen’s Noma restaurant and take another dip into Santiago’s basket.
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.
