Lucinda Elliott takes us to Santa Cecília in downtown São Paulo, an area that has seen an influx of restaurants, bars and bricks-and-mortar retail, spearheaded by Brazilian entrepreneurs who are eager to improve the neighbourhood.

Monocle 24’s Charlie Filmer-Court takes us on a culinary tour of a street that has long been adored by Parisians.

We head to the elusive northern suburb of Chalandri in Athens to find out how it went from shopping cluster to food hub in a matter of years.

Denver is home to an underrated music, culture and food scene but it’s gradually beginning to make more noise across the US, and for good reason.

We visit Ipoh in northwest Malaysia to sample the city’s famous white coffee, kway teow and Nyonya cuisine.

Monocle’s Charlie Filmer-Court takes us to Ancoats in Manchester where the northern UK city’s food and drink selection has received a huge boost thanks to the area’s revitalisation.

Tastemakers and bartenders in Bahia’s state capital Salvador are changing the face of Brazil’s national drink, cachaça. Monocle’s Lucinda Elliott finds out how perceptions of the spirit are changing at home and abroad.

Monocle’s Beirut correspondent Lizzie Porter takes us on a tour of Baghdad. The Iraqi capital’s restaurants and cafés are encouragingly busy thanks to a period of relative stability.

A tour in Frankfurt’s Bahnhofsviertel where creative chefs are celebrating the city’s diversity with their menus.

A tour of the Paris neighbourhood of Belleville, which is home to one of the French capital’s most diverse selections of food.