In November 2018 celebrated chef Monique Fiso opened her first bricks-and-mortar location in Wellington following an extremely popular series of Māori inspired pop-ups in New Zealand and abroad.

Helge Hagemann is an unusual sort of chef. Instead of working at just one restaurant, he freelances all around the world, and enjoys the freedom and flexibility that gives him.

Pasture is focused around six seats at the pass directly in front of the red hot heart of the open fire where chef Ed Verner cooks with a fan, sparks flying, to prepare his carefully crafted menu with ingredients which are often a year in the making.

Former PR consultant Annika Taschinski and her partner Thomas Kliefoth are regarded as the forerunners of a contemporary coffee culture in Hamburg. In 2004 they set up their “elbgold” (= Elbe gold) roasting business, now with five branches, serving and selling only their own coffee.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch or so the saying goes. But, at Everybody Eats there is such as thing as a free dinner, or a $2 dinner or frankly whatever you can pay dinner.

The ‘top harbour’ at the northern end of the Hamburg port complex was formerly a busy transhipment point for transferring cargo. Those days are gone, but the area freed up as a result has become an increasingly dynamic space: it has been home to another new project – the Hobenköök indoor market.

The emphasis at Orphans Kitchen is on simplicity, sustainability and ingenuity. For this interview Lottie spoke with Orphans Kitchen’s executive chef and co-owner Tom Hishon.

Judith Heimann is a beekeeper who hires out bee colonies to private individuals, companies and restaurant owners, who then get to keep the resulting honey. The beekeeper talks to Benjamin Cordes about her unusual enterprise.

Archive Bar and Bistro is set atop Waiheke Island’s west coast. Auckland city is clearly visible in the distance seperated by the blue waters of the Hauraki gulf and the budding Mudbrick grape vines and native manuka and kanuka trees that make up the view from the restaurant’s marble and granite tables.

The “Jellyfish” restaurant in the Eimsbüttel district of Hamburg is one of Germany’s top fish restaurants, because of its great food, and more particularly a very special concept and philosophy – because the establishment only serves sustainably caught fish.