Cheeseburger smoothie

24-8-2010

Do you want a delicious cheeseburger smoothie? Or doesn’t that sound like a very good idea? Smoothie chain Jamba Juice in the U.S. goes into battle with fast food chains that also sell smoothies. Apparently fast food chains selling smoothies is just as strange an idea, as juice companies selling cheeseburger smoothies. The viral was a success: within weeks the film was viewed 341,000 times.

 

Suppliers on the map

23-8-2010

Regional Restaurant ‘The Hofkaemer’ in Bergeijk, The Netherlands offers a placemat to all the guest indicating all the local suppliers. To make clear that they use local products.

A little ice cream cone with your coffee

22-8-2010

At the ice cream parlor of restaurant ‘De Tolkamer’, The Netherlands you get a delicious ice cream with your coffee. That’s how it should be!

 

De-junked food

22-8-2010

4Food! opens on September 7th  in New York This company will serve healthy ‘de-junked’ food.

Bus and more

21-8-2010

A personal dinner in natural surroundings, that is what ‘Bus en Meer’ offers. You will be picked up in an old fashioned VW van and a table and dinner will be arranged on location.

Pastry trolley

21-8-2010

Although reported before, it remains a welcoming gesture to make your own choice of pastries when having coffee. At Restaurant Le Phebus you can pick your choice from a trolley with excessive choice of several kinds of cookies, lollipops and ice cream. No more small plates with cookies, half of which you don’t eat or know if it is touched before or not.

Freeze

20-8-2010

During a special event (in 2009) Restaurant Lounge in Frankfurt served popsicles shaped like pistols. Created by the German designers Florian Jenett and Valentin Beinroth. The popsicle was available in the flavors, cherry, licorice, cola and cassis. The designers clearly have a thing with popsicles and pistols. In 2003, they hung up about 50 of them right in the center of Frankfurt. A great idea for dessert at a “who did it?” diner. 

Noura, Lebanese cuisine

17-8-2010

Lebanese cuisine Noura, this summer guestcuisine in department store Le Printemp. Noura has two delis, two restaurants Gastronomique and 4 Noura Brasseries in Paris.  

Potatoes for streetfood?

16-8-2010

According to the Dutch trendwatcher Adjiedj Bakas, potato is making a comeback! The potato fits into the trend of nostalgic-food. Consumers crave for nostalgia as counterpart to turbulent times. Who’s going to hit the streets with the Victorian potato ovens selling (baked) potatoes as street food? We Dutchies are already known for being “The Potato Eaters”.

Joly ice cream

12-8-2010

Another nice example of shop-in-shop. Ice maker of the year in 2004 Wesmael David, who works at the Groupe Holder (Ladurée among others), developed the ice cream Joly. The creamy ice cream is kept at -8 degrees Celsius and finished with toppings a la minute in the Water-bar of the department store Colette in Paris. Ice cream from Jerome Biarritz is alsosold ice here, the icemaker is specialized in special flavors of ice cream, for example Chantaco, Ginger Lime, Neige du Sahara, Rock’n Rhum, Xocolate.

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