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Monocle’s Quality of Life survey 2023: The world’s most liveable cities
This year’s survey of the best places to enjoy all that life offers finds a world grappling with new urban challenges.
Chef’s kiss
A Parisian sandwicherie is reimagining comfort food with fluffy challah buns stuffed with Mediterranean fillings, from kebab meat to mushroom omelette.
For the record
With Paris enjoying a musical renaissance, we meet the key players making themselves heard in an industry with a global reputation for catchy, sun-kissed pop.
Perfect combinations
What makes a hotel stand out is its core idea. This idea guides everything about the hotel, including its design, services, and how guests feel.
Great lengths
The team behind Berlin's Otto opens a refreshingly unpretentious sister restaurant, serving Austrian comfort food including fried chicken and venison goulash in relaxed moss-green surrounds.
Culture
Why Parisians want a taste of Sweden, a radio station building a global neighbourhood and a spin around Rome’s brand-new vinyl shop.
River beds
Our travel round-up begins with a theatrical Paris hotel beside the Seine. Over the page, we immerse ourselves in Bath, visit a homely Mexican mansion and sample Japanese hospitality in Hokkaido.
By the book
The completion of a 15-year library renovation is the end of a chapter for the team behind it – but the bonds they’ve formed are an ongoing story.
Stepping up
When booming shoe brand Veja needed a bigger HQ, it set out to make a space that was good for both the environment and its staff.
For starters
Paris's iconic Galeries Lafayette has transformed its top floor into an incubator for emerging culinary talent, housing seven promising restaurants under one elegant roof.
