The Menu

The tricky business of harvesting gooseneck barnacles in the Pacific and why Brazilian wine businesses are worth keeping an eye on. Plus: award-winning food writer and broadcaster Ravinder Bhogal’s first London restaurant.

A neighbourhood on the coastal European side of Istanbul, Kumkapi is a melting pot of migrants and wholesalers from Africa, the Caucasus and central Asia. We get a taste for the city’s rare cosmopolitan culinary mix.

Author Paul Freedman lists the American restaurants that have had the biggest impact on the country, patissier Pierre Hermé explains how much you can do with chocolate and we visit a groundbreaking wine business in Portland, Oregon.

Off the beaten tourist track, Katong is a vibrant area home to a number of Singapore's varied ethnic groups. Our guide to the neighbourhood's food-and-drink outposts is Debbie Yong, digital editor for the Michelin Guide Singapore.

Chef Omar Allibhoy proves that cooking Spanish food doesn’t need to be complicated. Meanwhile, we are in Melbourne to visit a business that is helping the city’s residents to make their own wine and we hear why a new fondue product is upsetting the Swiss.

Once a seedy neighbourhood, Zürich’s Kreis 4 has gradually become popular among the city’s creatives. While retaining some of its original character, it is now a thriving hub for new restaurants, bars and cafés.

We meet world-famous pastry chef Dominique Ansel, who shot to international fame with the invention of the cronut, and hear how his playful ideas have helped his business expand from New York to Tokyo – and now London. Meanwhile, we talk to Giuseppe Lavazza about the new phase of his coffee empire and discover Donna Hay’s favourite recipe. Plus: the week’s US industry news from our friends at Food Republic.

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.

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”.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 a weekly feature brought to you by the team behind ‘The Menu’.

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.