Meat window shopping

6-7-2011

The perfect restaurant for the meat-lovers. The [M]eatery just opened in the SIDE Hotel in Hamburg, Germany (part of the Design Hotel Group). This is a modern steakhouse, which provides a meat locker room where you can watch the dry-aging process of the meat, through a wall of glass.

 

Virtual shopping in a subway station

5-7-2011

Supermarket chain Tesco has developed a virtual shop at a subway station in South Korea. People can shop with their smartphone from billboards and get their order delivered when they get home.

Update: The Bilder & De Clercq grocery store from Amsterdam introduced an interactive wall.

Kung fu in the kitchen

1-7-2011

A kitchen knife for the wannabe Bruce Lee or Chuck Norris. With this knife you’re the kung fu master in your own kitchen (for a moment).

Make your own squared sushi

29-6-2011

Making sushi is normally a job for experts. But there is a new tool that makes it easier to create this delicious Japanese dish. And it comes squared instead of the normal round shape! Ross Patten introduced the Rice Cube during the Australian MasterChef. After a few slide movements with the futuristic device you will have the perfect squares.

Cheese Barbeclette

27-6-2011

Cheese lovers pay attention, with the Barbeclette it’s now possible to put cheese on the barbecue. Ideal for a cheeseburger or in addition to your vegetables.

Characteristic taste with STOYN Ice Cream

23-6-2011

STOYN Ice Cream is an unique design experiment that brought together 10 of the most iconic figures in world culture and embodied their images into ice cream. For example: Donald Duck, Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse and Mario – their strength, character and talent were materializes in organic tastes of ice cream STOYN, for example mate with rum (Che Guevara) – every taste reflects the role of these individuals in the global culture.

Pasta Wrap

21-6-2011

The American chain of Italian restaurants, Fazoli’s, developed a pasta wrap. This populair item is now filled with pasta. This product is still in a test fase, which ends on the end of July, and is available in 5 of the 250 restaurants.

Bus Stop Bakery best Studentcompany

21-6-2011

This pink bus sells cupcakes and clubcakes (combination of a waffle, clubsandwich, a hamburger and egg cake) throughout the Netherlands and at festivals. This is a concept of the Dutch patissier and Master chef Rudolf van Veen and Fontys Academy for Creative Industries, and is awarded as best Studentcompany of the Netherlands. In July the Bus Stop Bakery will represent the Netherlands during the European final in Madrid.

 

Frozen yogurt available at the train station

21-6-2011

Juice bar Shakies introduced frozen yogurt in 4 different locations on train stations; on Amsterdam Central, Amsterdam Amstel, Leiden and Eindhoven train station.  The frozen yogurt is made of organic yogurt and will be served with several fruit toppings. Next to the frozen yogurt, Shakies introduced breakfast shakes and salades as well. Untill the 11th of July you can try free samples of the new products. 

There is an app for boiling an egg!

21-6-2011

This iPhone app for Swedish sandwich spread Kalles Kaviar not only tells you how to boil the perfect egg, it will put together a playlist that, when finished, means your egg is ready. (It’s all so you can get your egg perfectly hardboiled to accompany the caviar). It’s clearly a hit with caviar/egg lovers – the app already has more than 50,000 downloads and is the third most downloaded in the free app section in the Swedish iTunes AppStore.

 

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