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Food & Drink

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.

  • Issue #161
  • 4 min read
Two smiling staff members in black uniforms posing together behind the counter at Starving Club restaurant
Food & Drink

Prepare for the Wurst

As a rule, sausages are treated as a matter of regional pride in Germany. Yet the down-and-dirty ‘Currywurst’ is the exception. We chew on the history of Berlin’s sauce-slathered guilty pleasure.

  • Issue #148
  • 1 min read
Hands holding paper container of currywurst with fries and curry sauce being prepared fresh
Travel and restaurants

Kerb your appetite

A pair of inventive Helsinki restaurateurs have transformed three long-overlooked city kiosks into hospitable hubs of singular street-food. We join the queue.

  • Issue #145
  • 3 min read
Customers queue at Kiosque, a Helsinki kiosk serving French café classics, with staff taking orders through the window.
Society

Bosphorous blues

A decade ago Istanbul was seen as an open, liberal city where culture still came together with ease. But now people are facing tougher times.

  • Issue #136
  • 8 min read
Two men sitting together in a modern restaurant with teal subway tile walls and industrial lighting
Food & Drink

Get in gear

Once viewed with disdain in Tokyo, food trucks are now transforming disused parts of the city thanks to a canny new firm.

  • Issue #124
  • 8 min read
Get in gear

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