National Geographic: From playlist to plate

Some of the world’s best restaurants are turning up the volume and bringing the party, employing popular music, DJs and experimental sounds to create a modern fine-dining experience that’s anything but stuffy.

Photo credit: Jack Tornqvist, Punk Royale

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Metropolitan: London's baking boom

Where do you find the best croissant in London? The joke used to be: take the Eurostar to Paris. Now London has a new generation of independent bakers to rival the French, with queues of punters hankering for the little luxuries they create.

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Fine Dining Lovers: What even is a sustainable restaurant now?

Experts weigh in on how to cut through the noise and make sustainable choices when dining out.

Metropolitan: Michael van der Kroft

Chef Michael van der Kroft of Rotterdam’s Tres restaurant on the city, his food and his favourite local eats.

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National Geographic: Pizza Omakase

Are you tempted by pretty much everything in a pizzeria? Then the new wave of pizza omakase tasting menus could be for you.

Photo courtesy Seba’s.

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N by Norwegian: City of Impossible Foods

San Francisco has become a frontier city for futuristic foods. Find out how its biotech start-ups are trying to change the way we eat – one cleverly engineered bite at a time.

Easyjet Traveller: Confine

Is Milan’s Confine the future of pizza?

Invasion of the bodyhackers

In LA right now, it’s all about the biohacking lab, where treadmills and free weights have been replaced with cryotherapy, infra-red therapy and bone-density enhancers. Is this the workout of the future?

Fine Dining Lovers: Cracking the Coda

What’s it actually like to dine at a restaurant dedicated entirely to dessert? Discover chef René Frank's Coda concept in Berlin.

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Vice: Martin Parr

Waxy sausages, tinned vegetables, white bread: iconic British artist Martin Parr's photos are the antithesis of your carefully arranged avo on toast shot.

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Oliver Jeffers

If you're not yet a fan of the spellbinding genius of Oliver Jeffers, you know a five-year-old who is. Here, the multi-million-selling author and artist reveals why he left Belfast for Brooklyn and how his own four-month-old plays havoc with his creative flow…

Michael Wolf: Architecture of Density

Late German photographer Michael Wolf on his love of the vernacular and Hong Kong’s terrifying lack of living space.

Things I wanted to tell Tracey Emin

I saw Tracey Emin in a pub once. She was standing by the bar sipping red wine surveying the room, her head rotating at irregular intervals like a broken lighthouse…