Abou El Sid, Cairo

"The Grand Marquis wine, though, was a disaster. A blend of Sultanine Blanche and Chardonnay, it might have just as well been camel piss and sand"

A zed, two noughts, and more | Zooba, Cairo

"I discovered that koshari might have been invented by French settlers in the 19th century as a veggie dish called couches de riz. Other outlets even have the gall to blame the British"

David J Constable on Venissa, Venice

"Venice is also a flirty temptress to the solo idler, the wandering daydreamer and the inquisitive traveller"

Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich on midsummer sparklers

"While I prefer sparkling - as PeeWee Herman once said, “All my friends have big buts" - The Grange’s Still Pink 2022 is my big but"

Casa Maria Luigia, Modena | Dear Jessica…

"I can’t think of anything more personal and amorous than being cooked breakfast by someone in the Italian countryside; being poured steaming coffee from the mocha pot as plates of smoked cotechino sausage with zabaione and freshly-baked cookies arrive"

All going south | Sorn, Bangkok

"I could see into the kitchen, where militant staff stood behind large, fire-scorched clay vessels filled with rice, stirring"

Dana international

American-born, Paris-based journalist Dana Thomas is, arguably, the most important voice in fashion in the 21st century

My father, Marilyn Monroe and Dom Perignon

"This act of blind tasting started the rumour that he was blind (he wasn’t)"

Central to everything | The Peruvian magic of Virgilio Martínez

"Virgilio quite literally cooks Peru. He does not import or imitate. He creates"

The ages of Attica

A journey through Ben Shewry's tastes, from the early days of Attica to today

Lagos to London, First class | Akoko

"African cooking and African cuisine is… well, it’s nothing. It doesn’t exist."

Artists in residence and ascendance

Meet the international artists heading to Margate for the first term of the The Tracey Emin Residency

After hours | Review: 25hours Hotel Indre By, Copenhagen

"Once you’ve got your key for your room, you take the lift upstairs and realise quickly that this is a hotel that could compete with The Overlook for scale and bewildering hallways"

The best books of 2022

Arts Editor and author Neil D.A. Stewart distills 12 months of essential reads

Hiša Franko | At home in the country

"Brexit stopped any dreamy fantasy of setting up a life there. And don’t get me started on that"

Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich on winter sparklers

"It’s the FOMO champer for your hamper and I can’t believe I wrote that"

A star is transitioned

"Jordan Gray is a star in near-vertical ascent, and she’s bringing all of us with her"

Shifting Plates | The incongruity of Scotts

"Real life intruded in 1975 when the IRA bombed this swank symbol of the establishment, killing one diner and injuring 15 others"

Davey Davis and their queer New York noir

"Sexual perversion is so ingrained in the history of 20th-century queerness that it's the rule, not the exception"

Rebooting the country boozer | The Small Holding, Kent

"This place might have a past in pints and pickles, but the restaurant knows precisely what it wants to be today. There’s no flirting with pub snacks here"

Why I’ll always want to go to a Wagamama, wherever

"I did a fashion shoot at the Lexington Street Chipperfield space. Every surface and frosted glass corridor was sleek and lovely"

Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich works her way through the best of the best BTG lists

"Yes, my first encounter was at Sheekey’s, the theatre district’s darling heart. But Henriot is at home in Hollywood’s Waldorf Astoria, Tokyo’s Restaurant Apicius and London’s Four Seasons Hotel at Ten Trinity Square as well"

Edible Edinburgh

"True, not every city centre has a bloody great fortress looming overhead whose cannon booms at 1pm (to wake the students, ha ha)"

Scandinavian heat at Scotland Yard | Ekstedt at The Yard, London

"Scotland Yard Hotel: a handsome but solid red brick townhouse where a sunbeam wouldn’t show its face for fear of getting itself arrested"

Is this the best restaurant in… Slovenia? | Grič, Šentjošt

"I'm reluctant to even tell you about Grič, wanting to keep this precious gem a secret all for myself"

The Catalan tapes | Almanac Barcelona

"So I got liver! Such a treat for a vegan!"

Pasolini’s last supper

It takes a Village

The jury is IN

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