Japies Hof pioneers with festivalfood at star level
A music festival with a star level food line-up. This summer Japies Hof introduces besides numerous of musicians topchefs as Richard van Oostenbrugge, Pascal Jalhay and Syrco Bakker. lees verder
A music festival with a star level food line-up. This summer Japies Hof introduces besides numerous of musicians topchefs as Richard van Oostenbrugge, Pascal Jalhay and Syrco Bakker. lees verder
At the redaction of Horecatrends we spot a lot of national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write articles about, the smaller trends we use in our column ‘Trends we spotted this week’. This week among others, an article about sneakair who made a shoe which can help you find your way, getting high in Amsterdam with cannabis chocolates and a DIY kit to make your own wine! Perfect for the winelovers! If you like to read the whole article, click the title. Enjoy reading! lees verder
On the 28th and 29th of May the Culitruck festival will take place in Hulst, The Netherlands. Restaurant ‘t Vlasbloemeken (1 Michelinstar) will be presenting and serving a home-made lobsterburger: the Mc Lobster. We asked chef Eric van Bochove why he wanted to participate in the festival and what the guests can expect from the Mc Lobster. lees verder
Last April we wrote about the ‘photo ambassador’ of the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea. Recently we also read that 35 Fairmont Hotels & Resorts started cooperating with photographers, united in Flytographer.com. This app connects travellers with professional photographers in over 160 cities worldwide. Consumers who are visually oriented are constantly seeing high-end lifestyle photo’s on social media, the result is that they also want the same type and quality photo’s. Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and the Four Seasons Resort at Maui are accommodating their guests to achieve this. lees verder
A lot is happening in the world of craft beers. At this moment we have more breweries in the Netherlands than Belgium and every bar has a variety of craft beers on the menu. One of the new trends is to age beers, something which is already done by brewers or pub owners in the past. Thanks to the Bourgondische Bierkelder (the Burgundian Beer Cellar) this process will be available for the public as well. lees verder
Yes, you read that right. Burger King opened a private spa in one of the locations in Helsinki. Would you go to a spa in a Burger King? The red-blue sauna does feature a TV though and Burger King towels. And it’s possible to order a Whopper and eat it in the spa.
The Scottisch craft-beer brewery BrewDog is set to move forward with its plans to open a craft beer-themed hotel. They will build the BrewDog hotel in the neighbourhood of their brewery, with a ‘PUNK IPA’ tap in the hotel rooms. A true BrewDog experience. Through a crowdfunding campaign which ended last week they managed to raise 19 million pounds. The money is going to be used to build the new hotel and a new brewery. They will also invest in more pubs.
At the website of Designboom we spotted the initial plans for a network of cable cars connecting Chicago’s city centre. Will these Skyline cable cars replace the hop-on hop-off busses in Chicago in the future? It could become Chicago’s unique feature like the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the London Eye. lees verder
Last Tuesday restaurant HanTing (1 Michelinstar) in The Hague tackled a world’s first. As the first restaurant in the world Michelin chef Han Ji launched an innovative Tea Menu. With each dish a matching and different tea was served, which, in combination with the food, has a positive effect on the human body. We tasted this Tea Menu! lees verder
Introduced for the Dutch hospitality industry, OERS, Ons Eigen Reserverings Systeem (Our Own Reservation System). OERS is a new online booking system which has been launched festively on the 9th of May by chef Alain Caron at Restaurant Aan de Poel. The system is different; each participating restaurant owner is co-owner of the system and automatically become member of the cooperative OERS. This allows restaurant owners to decide themselves on the terms and commissions. Where other reservation systems will only become more expensive in the future, OERS will become cheaper. lees verder

A music festival with a star level food line-up. This summer Japies Hof introduces besides numerous of musicians topchefs as Richard van Oostenbrugge, Pascal Jalhay and Syrco Bakker.
At the redaction of Horecatrends we spot a lot of national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write articles about, the smaller trends we use in our column ‘Trends we spotted this week’. This week among others, an article about sneakair who made a shoe which can help you find your way, getting high in Amsterdam with cannabis chocolates and a DIY kit to make your own wine! Perfect for the winelovers! If you like to read the whole article, click the title. Enjoy reading!
On the 28th and 29th of May the Culitruck festival will take place in Hulst, The Netherlands. Restaurant ‘t Vlasbloemeken (1 Michelinstar) will be presenting and serving a home-made lobsterburger: the Mc Lobster. We asked chef Eric van Bochove why he wanted to participate in the festival and what the guests can expect from the Mc Lobster.
Last April we wrote about the ‘photo ambassador’ of the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea. Recently we also read that 35 Fairmont Hotels & Resorts started cooperating with photographers, united in Flytographer.com. This app connects travellers with professional photographers in over 160 cities worldwide. Consumers who are visually oriented are constantly seeing high-end lifestyle photo’s on social media, the result is that they also want the same type and quality photo’s. Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and the Four Seasons Resort at Maui are accommodating their guests to achieve this.
A lot is happening in the world of craft beers. At this moment we have more breweries in the Netherlands than Belgium and every bar has a variety of craft beers on the menu. One of the new trends is to age beers, something which is already done by brewers or pub owners in the past. Thanks to the Bourgondische Bierkelder (the Burgundian Beer Cellar) this process will be available for the public as well.

Yes, you read that right. Burger King opened a private spa in one of the locations in Helsinki. Would you go to a spa in a Burger King? The red-blue sauna does feature a TV though and Burger King towels. And it’s possible to order a Whopper and eat it in the spa.
The Scottisch craft-beer brewery BrewDog is set to move forward with its plans to open a craft beer-themed hotel. They will build the BrewDog hotel in the neighbourhood of their brewery, with a ‘PUNK IPA’ tap in the hotel rooms. A true BrewDog experience. Through a crowdfunding campaign which ended last week they managed to raise 19 million pounds. The money is going to be used to build the new hotel and a new brewery. They will also invest in more pubs.
At the website of Designboom we spotted the initial plans for a network of cable cars connecting Chicago’s city centre. Will these Skyline cable cars replace the hop-on hop-off busses in Chicago in the future? It could become Chicago’s unique feature like the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the London Eye.
Last Tuesday restaurant HanTing (1 Michelinstar) in The Hague tackled a world’s first. As the first restaurant in the world Michelin chef Han Ji launched an innovative Tea Menu. With each dish a matching and different tea was served, which, in combination with the food, has a positive effect on the human body. We tasted this Tea Menu!
Introduced for the Dutch hospitality industry, OERS, Ons Eigen Reserverings Systeem (Our Own Reservation System). OERS is a new online booking system which has been launched festively on the 9th of May by chef Alain Caron at Restaurant Aan de Poel. The system is different; each participating restaurant owner is co-owner of the system and automatically become member of the cooperative OERS. This allows restaurant owners to decide themselves on the terms and commissions. Where other reservation systems will only become more expensive in the future, OERS will become cheaper.