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 18: Milan, Brera
Monocle correspondent Ivan Carvalho is our guide to the Milan neighbourhood of Brera, famous for its food shops and restaurants.
A restaurant with no kitchen
A Finnish restaurant where customers enjoy takeaway food, French master-baker Eric Kayser on what makes a successful bakery, the week’s top headlines from Down Under and the benefits of cooking with nut butter.
Food Neighbourhoods 17: Helsinki, Bulevardi
Food-and-wine writer Arto Koskelo and Monocle’s Petri Burtsov take a tour Bulevardi, one of Helsinki’s most historic streets, in crisp minus 20C winter weather.
Does technology ruin restaurants?
Can new technology help restaurants to improve the customer experience or should the gadgetry be left to the fast-food chains? Plus: Spanish star chef David Muñoz’s new London restaurant.
Food Neighbourhoods 16: San Sebastián, Gros
Monocle’s Liam Aldous tours one of the most exciting food districts in the Basque country.
New beginnings
We find out how Uruguay is trying to up its food game and become a world-class culinary destination, discover new healthy products hitting the UK market and look through this week’s top headlines from the US.
Food Neighbourhoods 15: Vienna, Servitenviertel
Monocle’s Alexei Korolyov tours the Servitenviertel, one of Vienna’s most beautiful residential areas – and a constantly improving food destination.
The Menu: best of 2016
Highlights from the past year, from the restaurants that changed the US to what makes a great restaurant menu. Plus: what do grapevines and Mozart have in common?
Drink innovators
We examine crisp and cool new ideas in the drinks industry, from the world’s first spirit distilled from birch sap to evolutions in beer. Plus: saké from California.
Virgilio Martinez’s Peruvian discoveries
Peruvian chef Virgilio Martinez’s new project high in the Andes, a Madrid restaurant that offers free dinners for the homeless, a great cocktail for the holiday season and David Muñoz’s favourite Christmas recipe.
