Olive Magazine

At olive we believe you can eat imaginatively and well without spending a fortune. Every month we aim to inspire food lovers to cook new dishes, but it's not all about cooking at home. The magazine has three main sections, eat in, eat out, eat away so you'll also find great value restaurants, top recommendations and tips from around the world. In every issue: 100+ easy, stylish recipes all triple tested, 7 meals for under £35, great value restaurants, bargain travel ideas

Welcome

May INSPIRATION • This month’s essential restaurants and the best stand mixers for your money, plus next-level sautéed greens from contemporary ocakbasi, The Counter

cook • A simple yet impressive meal for four making the most of easy-to-find storecupboard ingredients, show-off desserts for special occasions, and ingenious new ways with your favourite pickles

Storecupboard menu • Some ingredients are always worth keeping to hand – frozen berries, chorizo, beans, cooked grains and grilled artichokes are the makings of a simple yet impressive meal

Cook with the season • That sweet spot between spring and summer brings with it some of the very best produce

Keep it sweet • Show-off desserts to end your meal with a flourish, from food writer Claire Saffitz

3 WAYS WITH Pickles • Whether it’s cornichons, onions, beetroots or dill pickles, you can do so much more than you might think with these vinegary beauties

Eat well everyday • Easy, nourishing, veg-packed meals to inspire from low-waste chef Max La Manna

Coronation chicken cups • Give this gorgeously creamy filling the canapé treatment – perfect for easy entertaining

DISCOVER • Recreate a sumptuous sharing dish and chilled cocktail from late-night Thai canteen Speedboat Bar, the UK’s best set menus for joyously decision-free dining, and the thrilling, complex flavours of South Korea

Speedboat Bar SIGNATURE DISH • Whip up a spicy chilli-spiked dish and zingy ginger cocktail from Thai canteen Speedboat Bar in London’s Chinatown

READY? SET MENU? GO! • Delegate decision making to the experts – say feed me, thrill me. Rather than poring over menus, opting for a great-value set menu or a blow-out tasting experience allows you to kick back and relax, confident that incredible food will follow

Maresco • Critic KS Tong and reader Eleanor Wilson-Holt give their verdicts on this modern, seafood-focussed tapas bar in London’s Soho

THIS MONTH • Our trends expert shares a simple recipe featuring ricotta salata, and explores Whitley Bay’s culinary hotspots

THE MEASURE • Try party punches, cherry margaritas and spicy bourbon this month

5-MINUTE WINE EXPERT PART 2: CHILLING • Get the most out of what you’re drinking with our monthly crash course in wine. Next up, discover why all wine benefits from chilling

South Korea • Su Scott introduces the deep, complex flavours of this East Asian country

10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT starting a brewery • Jaega Wise, author, presenter and award-winning head brewer of Wild Card Brewery in Walthamstow, shares her wisdom on the olive podcast

UNWIND • Head to hip Margate for fine seasonal Kentish produce served in a beautifully restored seafront hotel, feel welcome in supper club chef Luiz Hara’s immaculate home kitchen, and recreate Ben Tish’s refined Anglo-French pub menu

Fort Road Hotel, Margate • Kentish ingredients, local artists and extra touches of hospitality give this distinctive seafront hotel the perfect combination of contemporary style and seaside nostalgia

Simply beautiful • Chef and cookbook author, Luiz Hara, welcomes us into his stunning north London kitchen, where he hosts hugely successful supper clubs championing Japanese and Nikkei...