Brown butter candles | surprise your guests with this sauce
A new way to surprise your guests: offer them brown butter candles as sauce. Edible and surprising, the sauce for the main course has been at the table already in front of your guests.
A new way to surprise your guests: offer them brown butter candles as sauce. Edible and surprising, the sauce for the main course has been at the table already in front of your guests.
Ample, a healthy meal in a bottle, is a new product that will be launched by the end of 2016. A quick, convenient and healthy lunch for millennials. The most funded Indiegogo food campaign of all time has been backed for 735%. Is this start-up changing the lunch game for millennials?
At 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, the Nutella burger by McDonald’s and Bistro Vertus in The Hague.
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Moley has created the world’s first robotic kitchen. Featuring an advanced, fully functional robot integrated into a beautifully designed, professional kitchen, it cooks with the skill and flair of a master chef. The prototype was premiered to widespread acclaim at Hanover Messe, the international robotics show. Will this idea help restaurants to fill the shortage of chefs? read more
Starbucks is serving a new coffee drink, blending craft beer with espresso: the Espresso Cloud IPA. Innovation in your coffee and beer ;-). We wonder what this innovation will taste like….
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Yours twin JO&JOEAccorHotels wants to revolutionize hospitality with its new brand: JO&JOE. A brand co-constructed with its future guests, disrupting traditional codes. JO&JOE will blend private-rental, hostel and hotel formats. They want to reinvent and disrupt the experience in terms of design approach, catering, service and guest journey. By 2020 a total of 50 venues have to be open at destinations popular with Millennials, like locations in Paris and Bordeaux (2018) and Warsaw, Budapest, Rio and São Paulo.
Rik Jansma, chef and owner of restaurant Basiliek in Harderwijk has designed a special limited edition of the famous Dutch ‘pepernoot’. A special gingerbread biscuit served traditionally at the celebration of the anniversary of Sinterklaas ( Saint Nicholas). The chef, awarded with a Michelin star has created this culinary ‘pepernoot’ in collaboration with Van Delft Biscuits. The ‘pepernoten’ will be available in a limited edition in stores all over the Netherlands. read more
The repour stoppers provide a simple, effective way to keep your favourite wine fresh once opened.
Pop the “smart stopper” into the bottle and the unique oxygen absorbing technology within the stopper gets to work removing the oxygen within the bottle that causes your wine to deteriorate.
At 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, Spirit restaurant expanding to Amsterdam and WineStein, the digital sommelier.
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Google Trips is de latest Google app. After Google Maps, Drive, Gmail and your Google Calender is Google Trips the newest tool which should make life easier. The new mobile app should help travellers instantly plan each day of their trips. Buying airplane tickets, booking a hotel and visiting a cosy restaurant at your destination, all in one simple travelling app.
Ilja Gort (bron: Wikipedia)Ilja Gort, famous winemaker and author is organising an online wine tasting on the 14th of November. This interactive winetasting/wineworkshop will include more information about Ilja’s new Bordeaux Supérieur. read more
From now on you can enjoy your beer as the brewmaster intended! Beer Bit chills your craft beer to bring out its optimal taste. read more
At 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, the unique collaboration between Spa Zuiver and Rituals, and the ‘rookworstkroket’ by FEBO & HEMA.
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Finger cookies are ideal for dipping in chocolate, caramel or syrup. Last year Italian designer Paolo Ulian came up with the idea of the cookies which are designed to fit perfectly on your fingers. The cookies are cone-shaped and are made like a thin wafer. These cookies served with some sauces and coffee would probably taste finger lickin’ good! read more
Sweetgreen combines healthy- and fastfood. The company was founded in 2007 in Washington and is tumultuous growing since then. Currently, the chain has 65 locations in the United States. read more
Approachable inspiration, trends and highlights from 2025 that can be easily applied to your own business in 2026. A whitepaper to scroll through when you read more
We’ve been enjoying glorious summer weather for a few weeks now, and the popular seasonal drinks are already known. Mocktails, cocktails, spritz variations, rosé, and read more
A great promotion of the Swissotel in Zurich! During the High Heel Friday women get 3% discount on their bill for every centimeter of heel. An original way to give your guests discount on their bill. So lady’s, put on your highest heels!
A floating pool in the middle of New York City’s East River, wouldn’t that be great? It might become reality thanks to crowd-funding. +Pool, a sustainable design project that would bring a giant filtration system disguised as a pool to the waters separating Manhattan and Brooklyn. Aiming to clean up to half a million gallons of river water each day. Architectural firm Family and the design office PlayLab, would allow New Yorkers the opportunity to swim in the East River safely for the first time in a century. The project scored headlines two years ago when ideas for the pool first surfaced on Kickstarter. Now the ambitious dream has inched closer to reality, as PlayLab/Family has achieved their goal last week at the Kickstarter page to gear toward creating a test pool. We think a cleaning pool like that would do great in the canals of Amsterdam or the port of Rotterdam. And the idea of the personalized tiles is great as well. Read more at The Huffington Post.
Heineken sends travelers to a destination that they have not planned or paid for. Together with agency Wieden & Kennedy New York, the beer brand challenges passengers to play the ‘Departure Roulette’ at Kennedy Airport. Passengers with their passport and tickets already in their hands, could change their flight to an unexpected destination. The ‘Departure Roulette’ is inspired by the new Heineken campaign that previously sent four men to remote destinations and filmed their adventures, launched by Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam.
A real cheeseburger lover or need inspiration for cheeseburger recipes? The Cheese & Burger Society offers an interactive burger menu with 40 cheeseburger recipes with beautiful and delicious pictures. The Cheese & Burger Society gives an overview of cheeseburgers made with Wisconsin Cheese. So browse through the different burger recipes! Great way to promote your cheeses, we also really enjoyed the American way of presenting the cheeseburgers. We could do the same with all our Dutch cheeses…..
It sometimes happens that people steal a glass from the bar as a reminder of the night out. Cider-maker Kopparberg has developed a solution for this problem. They protected their new glasses with a security system with ink. When the ‘thief is more than 100 meters away from the bar the ink will ‘explode’. The goal is not to punish people but to dissuade them from stealing the glass.
The ‘Titaan’ (Dutch for ‘Titan’) is a pure experience-location for meetings and private dining. Leon Verraes and het girlfriend Inge Vermeulen are the owners of the ship since March 2010. The ship is newly built in 2001 by Talsma in Franeker and finetuned in 2002 by SRF in Harlingen. It’s built by ING Real Estate as luxe meeting location for real estate developers and business relations. The ship has a capacity of 70-80 people while boarded, on the water it’s possible to sail with 55 guests.
Hotel chain Hilton shows how to prepare their cocktails via the Youtube channel. Bartenders from several Hilton hotels in the Caribbean show the secret behind their famous cocktails. What about the Piña Colada in the video above or the Hawaiian Eye Cocktail of the Hilton Hawaiian Village®? Bring the tropical atmosphere of Hilton to your home with these cocktails!
The Belgian artist Karl Philips has given billboards an extra function with his project ‘The Good, the Bad, the Ugly’. He renovated old trailer billboards into small apartments. Thanks to the ads on the walls of their temporary house the inhabitants earn some money to live in a billboard. The ads also conceal that these billboards are used as apartments. Earlier we’ve spotted billboards used as a bench, a shelter from the rain or a ramp over stairs.
Latte art and latte 3D art is hot! But if you don’t have a professional barista to serve coffee with beautiful art creations? Serve your guests a cup of coffee with these cute 3D marshmallows. These marshmallows are available in the flavors green tea, cocoa and milk tea. They require no fancy latte art skills, because you just put them in a cup of coffee. Can these 3D marshmallows compete with the real 3D latte art?
The perfect wave in your own backyard? Wavegarden brings the personal lagoon to your backyard, front yard or anywhere you’ve got space for a tiny ocean with waves. Wavegarden is the market leader in designing and developing of a wave generation system, the system is built and tested by professional surfers. This system can create the best waves to give people the ultimate surfing experience. It seems pretty cool to surf on the Dutch lakes! So when will they bring this system to the Netherlands?
Last week we published an article about five conceptual dress silhouettes made from organic vegetables and fruit juices exhibited in the lounge bar of the Amsterdam Marriott Hotel. These pictures show the result of these beautiful eat patterns!
Hotel Restaurant Oud London has recently renovated the first 28 of its 88 hotel rooms. The comfort and sustainability were the basic principles by designing the hotel rooms. All rooms have LED lighting and the new furniture is made of recycled teak wood. The rooms have a natural and sustainable look. The rooms have no minibar, but there is a large open cooling at the reception with an assortment of drinks and snacks for ‘to go’.
At the website of ‘The Special Choice’ you can order culinary dishes online, pay and collect them at the restaurant. This concept allows guests to enjoy culinary delights at home or at work. The dishes are healthy and responsible and prepared with fresh products. The dishes are provided with a quality label with the origin of the ingredients. The dishes are presented in a stylish way on plates with napkins and cutlery. As restaurant owner you can choose to donate a part of the sales to a good cause. The Special Choice takes care of order site, the packaging, the payment and the online promotion. Starting in the Netherlands at this moment.
From 6 to 16 July the area around the Gashouder factory will be transformed into the fashion destination of the Amsterdam Fashion Week 2013. After London and Berlin, the prosecco of the Italian brand Scavi & Ray will be served during the Fashion Week. So the Italian class and allure will literally be brought to Amsterdam. This prosecco is originally from Veneto and is known for its fresh and fruity aftertaste. The Scavi & Ray is characterized by the exclusive design of the bottle and its motto ‘A sparkling taste of fashion’. By the way, this fresh prosecco is also great to serve on a terrace in the sun.
From 6 to 16 July the area around the Gashouder factory will be transformed into the fashion destination of the Amsterdam Fashion Week 2013. After London and Berlin, the prosecco of the Italian brand Scavi & Ray will be served during the Fashion Week. So the Italian class and allure will literally be brought to Amsterdam. This prosecco is originally from Veneto and is known for its fresh and fruity aftertaste. The Scavi & Ray is characterized by the exclusive design of the bottle and its motto ‘A sparkling taste of fashion’. By the way, this fresh prosecco is also great to serve on a terrace in the sun.
Grolsch inspired four artists with stories from its 400 years of history. The corporate story gets a second life with these initiatives. DJ Mark Sixma produced a trance track, fashion designer Jacob Kok created a dress, writer Joost Zwagerman wrote a poem and ice sculpturer Peter Meurders created a giant Grolsch bottle. The project was part of the new Grolsch campaign “400 years of character.
The 20th Century Fox organized a pop-up movie night for the screening of a new animated film at a secret location in Paris. The pop-up cinema was located high in the trees. The new animated film takes place in a forest environment. This pop-up location gives the visitor an ultimate experience.
The platform AirBnB where individuals can offer their homes for temporary rental to tourists or expats has now become a huge success. It appears that more branches copy this concept. We’ve spotted ‘Eat With‘, a website where users can offer their ‘kitchen’ as an alternative for the restaurants in the area. CampInMyGarden, a website that offers sleeping places in gardens and outdoor houses, a cheap night and often at central locations. Now the platform ‘Boat Bound’ is launched. Whether you are looking for a fishing boat, a sailboat or a barge, Boat Bound offers private boats anywhere in the United States, at any price. We wonder when we can rent a boat in the canals for Amsterdam at Boat Bound.
Chocolate beer, honey-beer, tobacco beer… We now spotted coffee beer! Anchor coffee, a small coffee company in Japan and brewery Sekinoichi in Japan have developed a unique coffee beer. A drink for the real coffee and beer lover! During the brewing process of the beer they added coffee beans, the bitterness and aroma of coffee gives the beer a deeper flavor. To save costs, existing bottles have been used and are covered with small bean-shaped stickers. The packaging is designed by Nendo. Both villages where the coffee company and brewery are located, were destroyed by the tsunami in 2011. The coffee beer is a charity project to fundraise for disaster relief.
The newly opened Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi, Grand Canal has a camel milk mixologist. The hotel offers different flavours of camel milk milkshakes, like strawberry and mint. The camel milk mixologist suggests guests which camel milk flavours to pair with different dishes to create the ultimate tasting experience. This service is being launched during Ramadan, to offer something special. Camel milk has a high content of protein and additional nutrients and is excellent to consume during the morning meal with Ramadan. Earlier we saw bread and chocolates of camel milk.
A real fashionista and love to eat? Visit the lounge bar ‘Sorel’s Midtown Bar & Lounge’ at the Amsterdam Marriott Hotel on Saturday, July 6th and Sunday, July 7th. The lounge bar is fully dedicated to fashion during the ‘downtown’ program of the Fashion week, where fashion and food are the main ingredients of the lounge bar. Five conceptual dress silhouettes made from organic vegetables and fruit juices will be exhibit in the lounge bar. These dresses, also known as ‘eat patterns’ are made by the ‘Culinaire Werkplaats‘ with the aim to set people thinking about sustainability and the roll of the fashion world. The lounge bar also offers a stylish menu of fresh dishes and snacks.
Earlier we saw QR-codes of lemons and avocados or edible QR-codes made of cookie dough. Restaurant Harney Sushi in San Diego and Oceanside labels its sushi with edible QR-codes printed in edible ink on rice wafers. By scanning the QR-code with a smartphone, the guests will get more information. Including information about the sushi served and the origin of the ingredients. Very useful, because usually when I get sushi served it is always difficult to determine the type of sushi and ingredients ^Laura
Offer your hotel guests the experience of relaxing in a hammock in combination with soaking in hot water with the ‘Vessel’ bathtub. This bathtub is fixed with stainless steel brackets on the wall. The ‘Vessel’ is designed by Splinter Works and available in the colors black, red, blue, yellow, pink, bronze and silver.
New York has many parks, where New Yorkers enjoy some time to relax after the working day and rest on a bench. Aircraft company Virgin Atlantic has surprised the park-goers in a funny way! Virgin Atlantic placed a red bench in the middle of a street in New York to give the people a taste of what they could expect during a flight. Watch the video to see the reactions of the people. Let this inspire you and treat the people who are sitting on a bench in the neighborhood of your restaurant with a snack or a drink. Take some pictures and publish it on your website and Social Media. Earlier we saw that people in a subway in New York were surprised with a 6-course dinner.
Inhabitants of The Hague get the possibility to stay in a hotel in their own city. The first edition of the ‘Hotel night The Hague’ will take place on September 7th and 8th. Inhabitants of the city can stay in the most special hotels for a special rate on 7 and 8 September. With the Hotel Night ticket they can also join the culinary, creative and cultural events organized by the participating hotels. The tickets are also valid for several touristic attractions. The complete program will be announced at the end of July. Earlier this year the Hotel Night was organized in Amsterdam.
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