The best of Monocle comes to El Viajero

The El País travel supplement this Friday teams up with Monocle, the global magazine in English that focuses on current affairs, business, culture and design. The collaboration kicks off with a special Monocle report on the world’s most cutting-edge food stores and companies.

Each month, El Viajero will be publishing some of the most interesting stories from the trendsetting London-based publication, which first hit the stands in February 2007.

The Monocle brand was created by Tyler Brûlé, the Canadian journalist who created Wallpaper magazine in 1996. He is also a columnist for the Financial Times. As well as the print magazine, published ten times a year, Monocle offers content on its website (www.monocle.com), and has an online radio channel plus shops in London, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Tokyo and New York

Their tagline is: Monocle, Keeping an eye on the world

Tomorrow, El Pais readers will discover the secrets of the world’s most creative food shops and companies, from the high-quality Japanese hamburger chain, Mos, that’s giving McDonald's a run for its money, to the Austrian supermarkets, Mpreis, designed by architects with a generous use of space, natural light and stylish design, to bakeries and cheese shops in London, a Danish chain of natural juices and the latest invention to make shopping easier, the smart cart created in South Korea. Plus natural products from local producers and personal shopping consultants. From Copenhagen to Vancouver, via Beirut, all the hottest trends on the shelves.

Tyler Brûlé (born in Winnipeg, Canada, 1968) is a brilliant and controversial journalist, creator in 1996 of the fashion and design magazine Wallpaper (an immediate bestseller and sold the following year to the company Time).

A former war correspondent (he was wounded in Afghanistan in an ambush while working for the German magazine Focus), he has collaborated with The New York Times, The Guardian, Stern and Vanity Fair.