The Menu
Interviews with top chefs, food innovators, and producers. Discover ingredients, trends, and stories shaping the world of food and drink.
Latest Episodes
Food Neighbourhoods 28: Downtown Johannesburg
Restaurateur and tour guide Sifiso Ntuli shows us some of the highlights of the ethnically diverse downtown Johannesburg, hitherto overshadowed by some of the city’s smarter suburbs.
Italian improved
Italian chef Alessandro Borghese explains why Italian grandmothers are still the ultimate authority in cooking. Also, we avoid food waste in Amsterdam and author Catherine Phipps discusses citrus’s versatility.
Food Neighbourhoods 27: Barcelona, Raval
Chef Alfredo Marcus and Monocle’s Kati Krause head to the Raval area, which has transformed from a red-light district into a culinary hub in the past 15 years.
Health through eating
We meet the founders of Mindful Chef recipe boxes who have released a book to explain their cooking philosophy. Plus: what connects Melania Trump and sausages, and the week’s headlines from Australia.
Food Neighbourhoods 26: Rome, Testaccio
Monocle’s David Plaisant takes us to the neighbourhood of Testaccio, a delicious antidote to the chaotic central Rome.
Pitti Taste: the best of Italian produce
We get the highlights from the Pitti Taste food fair in Florence and find out how restaurateur Kurt Zdesar always knows what the next big thing for hospitality is. Plus: the week’s top headlines from Istanbul.
Food Neighbourhoods 25: Chicago, Irving Park Road
Monocle contributor Alison Cuddy and local food lover Coyote DeGroot tour Chicago’s historic Irving Park Road.
Pay what you want
The success of a pay-what-you-want concept at a Rio de Janeiro café, British meat guru Richard Turner’s top tips and why Chicago has become a force to be reckoned with on the US culinary scene.
Food Neighbourhoods 24: Berlin, Savignyplatz
Monocle’s Kati Krause tours Berlin’s Savignyplatz with Daliah Hoffman, food editor of ‘Mit Vergnügen’ magazine.
Fuss-free cooking
Thomasina Miers’ fuss-free approach in the kitchen, Seoul’s trouble with fried-chicken joints and Madrid’s new speciality saffron shop.
