Pay per minute at cafe

19-3-2012

Russian Babochki Anticafé lets consumers drink and eat for free, but they are charged by the minutes they spend in the café. Creating a space where consumers can relax and pursue their favorite diversions, the venue offers tea, coffee and desserts at no charge, guests can bring their own refreshments as well. An assortment of board games, Xbox games, wifi and a cinema hall are on hand for entertainment.

Nutelleria

19-3-2012

For the Nutella lovers: in Germany and Italy, Nutella fast food restaurants are opened. They offer a wide choice of delights such as pancakes, biscuits, muffins, milkshakes, pasta and pizza made from Nutella.

Update: In Chicago an Eataly opened with a Nutella-restaurant as well.

Afternoon tea at The Berkeley London

19-3-2012

The Berkeley London designer afternoon tea, Prêt-à-Portea, is inspired by the themes and colours of the fashion world. The menu is transformed every six months to follow the changing seasons in fashion. Prêt-à-Portea is served at the Caramel Room daily from 1pm to 6pm.  

Divorce Bar

16-3-2012

Jim Halfens opened a DivorceBar in Den Bosch (Netherlands) on Valentine’s Day (2012). The bar looks like an après-ski café and you’ll get a free cocktail if you show your certificat of divorce. Let’s celebrate life!

Behind the scenes – Michelin Guides NY

13-3-2012

Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten of 3 Star rated Jean-Georges Restaurant, and Chef Wylie Dufresne of 1 Star rated wd-50 discuss their personal culinary journeys, their many years of working with one another, and what a Michelin Star really means. This interview is part of the Michelin’s Chef Video Series. Great to watch if you’re a foody!

Music inspired by cocktails

13-3-2012

How does the perfect cocktail sound? ABSOLUT VODKA and the Swedish House Mafia DJs collaborated on a global digital cocktail & music experience to answer that question. The result? ‘Greyhound’, the first house track inspired by ABSOLUT cocktail. The ABSOLUT GREYHOUND cocktail: 1 part Absolut vodka; 3 parts Grapefruit juice!

Decorative sugar

12-3-2012

These fun sugars from Chambre De Sucre are handcrafted by one of the oldest family-owned businesses in Japan with the highest quality sugar possible. Chambre De Sucre delivers worldwide.

Crescent Moon Tower Dubai

9-3-2012

The Crescent Moon Tower is a design project by Transparence House and is submitted to the 11th Thyssenkrup Elevator Architecture Award. This building design symbolizes Dubai as part of the islamic world and shows the technology and economic development in Dubai. The building accommodates a childrens library, a conference facility, a restaurant, multiple cafés and an open air observation platform. If the design will be build, it is said to be completed in 2015 along with it’s sister project the “Full Moon Hotel”, resembling the Death Star form Star Wars.

Special beer for the Kaban at the Kapellerput

8-3-2012

The KABAN at the Kapellerput, Conference Hotel in the Netherlands is known to make a meeting session almost into a party. To celebrate this success they brewed a special triple beer together with The Fontein brewery. The result is a strong lager with 7,5% alcohol. Remarkable is the ingredient gale (herb), which grows on the banks of the pond and was often used in traditional beer. 

Self-sufficient farm-restaurant-hotel-amusementpark

8-3-2012

Guest speaker at the Battle of the Cheetahs , Oogst 1000 Wonderland is a design for a self-sufficient farm, restaurant, hotel and amusement park for 1,000 people per day. Food for the restaurant comes from the central structure and directly adjacent fields. They combine fun with usefulness. Hotel guests are also the farmers, when you work, you can stay for free. Oogst 1000 does also has the worlds first toilets that are linked to a bio-gas energy system and were you actually get paid € 0.50 per visit.

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