Smart ordering drinks
13-4-2012
With the PLing app for the Iphone and smartphone you can order drinks and food in different restaurants. You scan the unique code on the table, enter your phone number and place the order. The app is free to download and links to the cash registrer.
The new swimming pool
13-4-2012
Antwerp has a ‘Bathboat’ in August. It contains a swimming pool that floats in the water of the Kattendijkdok. Besides a pool, the boat is also a restaurant, has banquet rooms, a lounge bar and a sun terrace. The goal is that the boat will be ready in August and will host Winter activities as well.
Gastronomixs
12-4-2012
Gastronomixs is the new idea generator for chefs and food professionals who want to be inspired. By entering ingredients (components) the website generates recipes, flavor combinations, variations tips and creation methods.
No doggybag but a Foodiebag
12-4-2012
The Foodiebag must reduce the food waste of restaurants, designed by the sustainable production label VerdraaidGoed!. The Foodiebag will be accompanied with a special spoon. When the guest leaves this spoon on the plate after dinner, the waiter knows that the guest is interested in a Foodiebag.
From container to pizzeria
10-4-2012
A nice example of re-using containers. This pizzeria in Barcelona, designed by the Spanish architect Pedro Scattarella, is fully designed and build by using old shipping containers.
Scrabble coasters
6-4-2012
Do you have a Scrabble game sitting around that’s missing more than one letter tile? Recycle those Scrabble tiles and make clever and quirky coasters! Click for the list of supplies and how to create these coasters.
Restaurant Day
5-4-2012
Restaurant Day is a day where anyone can set up a restaurant, café or bar. It can be anywhere, like at your home, at the office or on a street corner! The next Restaurant Day is planned on the 19th of May.
Martin Creed unveils restaurant at Sketch
4-4-2012
Martin Creed was given a completely open brief to design the Sketch restaurant in London. The only note was that it could function as a restaurant. He used 96 different types of marble and all objects in the restaurant, from cuttlery, tables, chairs to glassware are different. The Master Chef Pierre Gagnaire makes the experience complete by cooking visually dishes, therefore art and food go hand in hand at Sketch.
Frozen beer foam
4-4-2012
The Kirin brewery has lauched Ichiban Shibori’ with frozen beerfoam. The foam is edible like a sorbet and doesn’t make the beer watery.
Plate Roulette
29-3-2012
A disagreement about who is going to pay for the pizza or who will do the dishes? With Plate Roulette you can leave it to faith. Place the pizza on the plate with the hidden gun barrel. If you are the one who gets the bullet, you lose!