The Menu
Interviews with top chefs, food innovators, and producers. Discover ingredients, trends, and stories shaping the world of food and drink.
Latest Episodes
Sweet Swedish summer
How Stockholmers get the most from nature over the summer months. Plus: former White House chef Sam Kass on how to make people eat healthier.
Food Neighbourhoods 33: Beijing, Dongcheng
A tour of one of the most atmospheric areas of the Chinese capital, which also hosts a thriving new culinary scene.
A Brazilian showcase
Rio de Janeiro’s new producers’ market offers the best of the country’s cuisine. We also look at new ways of matching food and wine and the week’s top food headlines from the US.
London’s food revival
How London has leaped from an epitome of mediocre food to a world-class culinary destination (if not the best), beer made from a recipe that’s 5,000 years old, plus what makes a perfect cup of coffee.
Food Neighbourhoods 31: Paris, Oberkampf
Author and blogger Lindsey Tramuta takes us to Paris’s Oberkampf, which has been taken over by established chefs and turned into a destination for casual and international fare.
Breaking boundaries
How UK bartender Tony Conigliaro turns inspiration into carefully crafted cocktails, Scott Hallsworth’s successful take on Japanese food and what makes Amsterdam’s breweries worthy of special attention.
Food Neighbourhoods 30: Borough Market, London
Restaurant consultant and publisher Adam Hyman shows us around this world-famous destination with an astonishing range of produce, right in the middle of the British capital.
Secrets of the wine business
Bianca Bosker, author of the new book ‘Cork Dork’, tells us how she taught herself. Plus: the Swedish restaurant introducing Nordic food to Milanese diners and how to create the perfect Irish pub.
Food Neighbourhoods 29: Manchester, Altrincham Market
Nick Johnson, Altrincham local and co-director of the 700-year-old market, takes us on a tour and explains why northern England’s best produce is enjoying a resurgence.
An Australian take
The success of Australia’s Four Pillars gin, the potential of the Indian wine market and the week’s top news stories from the US.
