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 4: Tsukiji fish market
Now in the midst of a relocation row, Tsukiji market has showcased some of the world’s most desirable seafood for 80 years. Our guide Ted Bestor, author of ‘Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World’ shows us around.
The Monocle Guide to Drinking & Dining
This special edition of ‘The Menu’ is all about our new book. Learn how to launch a restaurant, explore the best food and drink packaging and discover how to host great parties. Plus: Martha Stewart’s “last meal”.
Food neighbourhoods 3: Lower East Side, New York
An area in flux, the once grungy Lower Manhattan neighbourhood is quickly becoming the best place to eat, drink and be merry in New York. Richard Martin, editorial director of ‘Food Republic’, guides us around the neighbourhood.
Rum’s new dimensions
Rum tips from spirits writer Dave Broom, Australia’s kitchen goddess Donna Hay on achieving balance in life and food, a Kazakhstan business producing unusually large apples and the week’s top news stories from Europe.
Food Neighbourhoods 2: East London
East London has gone through a dramatic change this millennium. Now challenging the West End with its food and drink offerings, it attracts ever more new creative ideas and businesses that nevertheless retain its distinctive character. Our guide is food writer and author Rosie Birkett.
Focus on food media
Our guide to the world of food, drink and entertaining, The Menu serves up interviews with the world’s most creative chefs, introduces the makers behind the scenes and the ingredients that will soon be landing on your restaurant table.
Food Neighbourhoods 1: Hong Kong
In the inaugural episode of ‘Food Neighbourhoods’ we head to the Hong Kong district of Sham Shui Po, home to the most vibrant Cantonese palates, to see the sights, sample the tastes and meet the young creatives moving in and adding their own spices to the mix. ‘Food Neighbourhoods’ is…
The art of butchery
We visit a Berlin butcher shop that aims to save the craft that’s getting rarer in Germany, cook with miso (the way you’ve never cooked with miso before) and explore the changing face of the global tea industry.
Delights from shacks and beach huts
We stop by Breddos Tacos, a success story from London, and meet an international team that turned a beach hut into a pan-Mediterranean kitchen in Ibiza. Plus: our friends at Food Republic bring us news from North America.
New ideas from the Middle East
We meet honey producers in Lebanon, check out a controversial five-star menu in Bethlehem and discover what food writer Elisabeth Luard has learned from her career. Plus: the week’s top headlines from Singapore.
