Nine course vegetarian menu
25-1-2013
The restaurant ‘In de keuken van Floris’ in Rotterdam (Netherlands) offers vegetarians a surprising nine-course menu. With culinary delights without meat or fish, a delight for the vegetarian taste buds. Chef Floris Versluijs plays with acids, structures and contrasts. The restaurants also offers a menu with fish and meat.
Der Feinschmecker app
24-1-2013
The magazine DER FEINSCHMECKER launched a new restaurant app with the best restaurants of Germany. The app is always actual: openings, closings and for example the switches of chefs are updated daily.
Hospitality vacancies on your phone
24-1-2013
If you’re looking for a job in the hospitality branch in the Netherlands, download the app from ‘Werkenindehoreca.nl’ and receive all jobs on your mobile phone. Available for iPhone and Android.
The Hunt from Grant Achatz
23-1-2013
American top chef Grand Achatz has made a new movie. We came across it on the Twitter from Gastronomixs. We would love to go and eat at his restaurant whenever we visit Chicago. See also other clips as – Course comprised of 86 individual components – and – edible helium balloon.
Wondercool Copenhagen
23-1-2013
Gastronomic safaris by boat, walks in Nordic Noir Copenhagen, concerts in warehouses and pop-up restaurants. All this during the Wondercool festival – Copenhagen’s cultural month of February. It’s a festival of music, art, food, design, architecture and fashion.
App for tap water
22-1-2013
KRNWTR thinks it’s time for an app that maps tap water in the hospitality branch. Still you can’t order a glass of tap water everywhere. With this app you can see where they serve tap water and where they don’t. You can indicate where you’ve got tap water as well. Through crowd funding KRNWRT is trying to realize this app. You can invest from €2,50. Look here for more information.
Women only SofaKingcool
22-1-2013
Women-only venues in the big cities are rising. Bar/restaurant SofaKingcool in London will become “women-only” themed and is renamed to KC’z Bar from February 1st onwards. Networking is the main purpose, but also the demand for an after work hangout place. It’s by women for women and it’s not just for gay women.
TrackMyMacca for Aussies
21-1-2013
McDonald’s in Australia, better known as Macca’s, introduced a new iPhone app. With the app ‘TrackMyMacca’s’ the guest can see where the ingredients originate from and what happens before they are served. Another example of transparency at McDonald’s. In Canada they’ve created a YouTube movie about the difference between the hamburger in an ad and in your own box. There is also a ‘behind the scenes‘ about the French fries.
Kama Sutra cookie cutters
21-1-2013
We think that it would have been nice if all restaurants near of the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht served these cookies with their coffee and tea during the KamaSutrA convention was held last weekend. Or do you dare to serve them with Valentine’s Day? The cookies are here for sale.
Nature swimming pools
21-1-2013
In Amsterdam Purewtr/Pro from entrepreneur Stijn Weijns soon starts with the construction of a swimming pool in a “sustainable” hotel. After having built small pools for individuals the last years, the company now wants to expand to project development and designing public swimming pools. In the pools of Purewtr there is not a drop of chlorine or other chemicals. They use plants such as the yellow iris, the schoenoplectus acutus and the small-leaved lily to clean the water. The water quality is high and the pools uses 70% less energy than regular pools.