Dorilocos or crazy Doritos
Nice to serve at your terrace, small or big bags of Doritos chips at which guests are able to choose the toppings they like. Originates from Mexico where Dorilocos or crazy Doritos are hugely popular at local markets.
Nice to serve at your terrace, small or big bags of Doritos chips at which guests are able to choose the toppings they like. Originates from Mexico where Dorilocos or crazy Doritos are hugely popular at local markets.
Menno Janssen
Menno Janssen
Menno JanssenActually it’s age-old: brandy, or as we Dutch call it: brandewijn. The brand Rooster & Wolf comes with a special recipe from France and a beautifully shaped bottle. Rooster & Wolf, trendy brandy to drink pure or mixed in a cocktail!
Last saturday the 16th of April opened Deliveroo opened a pop-up restaurant in Amsterdam. Deliveroo is the first delivery service that opens a pop-up restaurant in the Netherlands. For a week the delivery service presents the biggest menu of the Netherlands in the Kalverstraat. Amsterdam’s favorite restaurants as The Butcher, Cafe George, Max and Anne & Max serve their dishes under one roof in one of the busiest shopping streets.
Situated in the heart of ‘Jordaan’, Amsterdam district, is the Mr. Jordaan hotel. Storytelling of the district has been integrated in the unique design of the hotel. Owner of this bed and breakfast hotel is Tsibo Lin, one of the owners of the ‘Foodhallen’.
At the redaction of 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, bungalowspecials starts with a WhatsApp concierges, Sergio Herman’s Frites atelier and this summer you can pay with your fingerprint in Japan.
Tourist Tram - Foto Maurice Haak, Den Haag Marketing
Tourist Tram - Foto Maurice Haak, Den Haag Marketing
Tourist Tram - Foto Maurice Haak, Den Haag Marketing
Tourist Tram - Foto Maurice Haak, Den Haag Marketing
Tourist Tram - Foto Maurice Haak, Den Haag MarketingThe Hague can compete with world-famous seaside cities like San Francisco, Melbourne and Lisbon this summer. In June ‘The Tourist Tram’ starts, a new connection between the city and the sea with historic trams. Tourists with a ticket can hop on and hop off for one or more days. The Hague offers – for Dutch standards – an unique attraction.
No more entrenched discrimination that exist in our society. This apps divides the amount of money that needs to be paid at the end of an evening out. Not everyone will like this as the app is dividing the bill based on salary differences between you and your table partners.
The traditional Dutch gin is making a comeback in the Dutch hospitality industry. Where this summer you will see mostly gin and vermouth on your menu, 2017 will be the year of the Dutch gin. We spoke with Sebastian Kolstee, one of the founders of Kever Genever.
Schedule the date in your agenda and be a chef for one day during Restaurant Day. This food festival takes place at the 21st of May and is being organised by thousands of people worldwide who either open their restaurant for one day or visit one.
At the redaction of 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, a great idea for your terrace this summer ‘Dorilocos or crazy doritos’. , ‘Urban pillow fight at square in Toronto’ and ‘Pizzacle, a pizza on a stick’.
NH Collection Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky
NH Collection De Doelen
The White Room
Wintertuin NH Collection Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky
Hotel room NH Collection Grand hotel Krasnapolsky
Bar The Tailor
Cocktails at The Tailor
Cocktails at The Tailor & Pata Negra
Tess Posthumus
NH Collection De Doelen NH Collection has added some very cool hotels to their portfolio! And Amsterdam had got another culinary hotspot with The White Room and with The Tailor bar, a hotspot for cocktails. Bram Kosterink attended the launch of the NH Collection in Amsterdam, the NH Collection Doelen and NH Collection Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky. Bram visited the new hotel rooms, tasted the cocktails made by Tess Posthumus and was getting a first insight in the new challenge of chef Jacob Jan Boerma.
Chef Dominique Ansel introduced the Cronut in Japan last year but now a Japanese dessert, Mizu Shingen Mochi, is introduced in New York City. A bite of water which is as popular as the cronut in Japan. It’s a water cake or as they will call it in New York, a raindrop cake.
A new robot in the hospitality industry. Hilton Worldwide and IBM announced a collaboration to pilot ‘Connie’ – the first Watson-enabled robot concierge in the hospitality industry. Hilton’s new robot draws on domain knowledge from Watson and WayBlazer to inform guests on local tourist attractions, dining recommendations and hotel features and amenities.
A photo ambassador? Yes a photo ambassador! A new twist to the longline of ideas, trying to influence the quality of pictures from your hotel. For the ‘photo ambassador’ you have to check in at the Four Seasons Resort at Maui. And if you watch the video above, you will have to agree that there must be great spots at this resort to take photos.
credits: UrbanFarmers
credits: Space & Matter
Logo UrbanFarmers
UrbanFarmers
UrbanFarmers
UrbanFarmers
UrbanFarmers
Bram Kosterink - UrbanFarmersIt will be the largest urban rooftop farm in Europe. The unique ‘farm’ is at 40 meters altitude in The Hague and will annually produce 50 tons of local, rooftop vegetables and 20 tons of fresh (urban) fish. Our colleague Bram Kosterink already got a tour of the impressive project.
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
At the AirBnB in Potts Naturpark Brauerei in Germany you can spend the night in a beer barrel bed! The ultimate hotel room for a beerlover invites guests to snooze in a giant 19th Century beer barrel that has been converted into cozy sleeping quarters. another barrel has been converted into a barrel sauna.
After a alcohol black-out Dhairya Dand from the MIT Media Lab has developed ice cubes that react to the music and drinking speed. The LED ice cubes changes color from green, orange to red if the drinking speed is to high. The chip inside the cubes is even able to send text messages to friends if the drinking continues.
At Whichaway Eco Camp explorers get the chance to experience the Antarctic comfortably, and sustainable. Guests can stay the overnight in one of six tents. The tents look like oversized golf balls. The frameless structures are made of aerospace composite panels that slot together to have the strength of a normal building and the mobility of a tent. Each tent has an en-suite bathroom and a desk. The camp consists of two more tents where you’ll find the dining area, library, kitchen and communications area. See more pictures in the Daily Mail article and a video about a trip to Whichaway Eco Camp.
Montblanc stationary is partnering with the St. Regis Washington DC Hotel and Thornwillow Press on a pop-up hotel lobby store for Barack Obama’s upcoming inauguration. Fans of the Montblanc brand assembling in Washington DC for the upcoming inauguration will be able to purchase leather goods, cuff links, timepieces and signature writing instruments in a new pop-up location. Obama fans can also purchase the official medallion set for $7,500. Those on a tighter budget can get an official inauguration souvenir pen for $30. In an added interactive element, visitors to the pop-up store will be encouraged to use Montblanc stationery and pens to write letters to the president that will then be hand-delivered to the White House by the St. Regis Hotel’s team of butlers. We never heard from a pop-up store in a hotel lobby, inspiration for other hotels and shops.
Based in New York, Chefday hosts step-by-step videos of top chefs from the city – like Jehangir Mehta from Iron Chef America and Michelin-starred Chris Leahy – which are free to watch. If you decide to cook the meal yourself, you can order all the necessary ingredients to be delivered. Through a subscription option, customers will receive a recommended recipe via email every two weeks, which they can view before opting to order the ingredients, choose another recipe or skip until the following fortnight. In addition, Chefday donates one meal for every dish ordered to the Food Bank for NYC. They combine healthy recipes from well known award winning chefs with the possibility of directly buying all the ingredients. And all foodies know that can be an issue!
In eighteenth-century Oslo, criminals were brought to justice on a tiny islet, “Thief Island”. Today, Tjuvholmen – now a peninsula – is home to one of Scandinavia’s most exciting urban renewal projects. Business, art and nightlife, are all combined, it also became a dazzling showcase of contemporary European architecture. In the center of it all is The Thief, an upscale waterfront hotel. The first Design Hotel in Norway. Check out the pictures at the website of Design Hotels.
February 2011 we’ve spotted cats in a coffee bar in Japan. Recently Bright came across this crowdfunding project for a cats Café in Londen. When will the first Cat Café open in Amsterdam? Guests can relax with a drink and a cat to cuddle. And for childern who aren’t allowed to have pets this café will be paradise.
Hema steps into the coffee branch with coffee and cake for €1,=. Lunchroom Cappuccino from Rotterdam will launch a counter offensive on 11 and 12 January with the act #tijdvoorkoffie (Timeforcoffee). By every cup of coffee customers get a free Unox sausage.
In 2007 we spotted pay by text message and the app MyOrder. This year the app developed more options for the consumer and the entrepreneur. The app becomes a digital wallet for consumers and a new sales channel for the entrepreneur. Through your mobile you can open the menu card, order and pay directly. Rabobank works together with MyOrder. The app introduced lots of new features, for more information take a look at the website MyOrder.nl or the campaign movie from Rabobank look here.
Faktum in Göteborg (Sweden) launched a new initiative for homeless people. There are ten places where homeless people have slept that everyone can book like a hotel. One night costs $10 and the money will be spend on help for homeless people. It’s a way to collect money, you don’t sleep in one off the places yourself.
Instead of a dartboard a large scrabble game at the wall of your pub. Considering the popularity of wordfeud it might be a way to attract enthusiastic players. Even big chess board for at the wall are for sale.
At the shop / restaurant ‘Meneer Paprika’ in Haarlem, The Netherlands, everyone is welcome for breakfast, lunch, coffee and cake and 3D printing. Recently, the store 3DSVP opened in the same space. Gadgets, jewelry etc. all roles from the first 3D printer in a shop in the Netherlands. 2x inspiration: Catering + indoor another store and 3D printing. Have you ever thought about molds for dessert etc. with logo, using 3D printing? On the internet there are companies where you can place this taskl.
Recently a friend told me her experience with the new glutenfree pizza from Domino’s Pizza. She came across the pizza during her holiday. And with 2 daughters with celiac disease she loved to try it. Fortunately one daughter could try it and the other was warned by Domino’s Pizza about the level of ‘gluten free’. Great example of transparency and so important in cases of gluten free products! ^Marjolein
The Gogol Mogol (named after a Russian egg dish) is a single-use cardboard egg box (but recyclable). A tag pulled from the container sets off a chemical reaction which makes the small package warm up and cook the egg in just two seconds. Created by brand agency KIAN, designed by Evgeny Morgalev and has just won an award from The European Packaging Design Association. In the article from the Daily Mail online more information. For us it looks like the process behind the Hot Booster soup. Unfortunately it has not been taken in production but it would fit perfect on all breakfastbuffets.
On the Waterloolaan (36-37) in Brussels a new Martini bar has opened her doors on the 13th of December. A nice combination of a bar and restaurant in the authentic Martini style. For more information and inspiration (pictures) take a look at their facebookpage: http://www.facebook.com/MartiniBarBrussels
The iPhone-app Dish.fm collects reviews from restaurants and cafes. The app gets its information from large websites like Yelp, Foursquare and Tripadvisor. It makes rankings of best ranked dishes, drinks and desserts. For now the app is only available in New York and San Francisco but in the next few months other cities in America and a part of Europe will be added to the database.
Heineken is celebrating its 140th birthday by asking the fans to create a new bottle, by using the archive of previous bottles and labels. The challenge is open to people around the world until March 1st. The winning design will become a limited edition bottle.
Chef Alain Ducasse combined his knowledge in a new iPad-app called My Culinary Encyclopedia. The app is a collection from lot’s of tips and tricks, knowledge and techniques. The dishes are divided in 5 categories: Gastronomy, Around the world, Mediterranean, Bistros and Dessert. The app is available in the App store en will cost you €33,99.
Beach club restaurant Ajuma is set up temporarily in the Lichtfabriek at Haarlem. The next weeks they have invited other beach restaurants to cook a dinner preview for 2013. On Monday 14 January Vooges will kick-off the series, followed by Rapa Nui on 21 January, Tijn on 28 January, Club Nautique on 4 February and the ‘Haven van Zandvoort’ closes on 11 February. For everyone who can’t wait for the summer to start reservations can be made through zuidstrand@ajuma.nl
Restaurant owners and managers can receive realtime feedback from customers on their mobile without giving away their private number. Guests can text to a number on a table card to inform the staff about a dirty toilet for instance. Goal of the tool is to solve problems before they will result in negative online reviews. This is an American initiative, we’ve spotted the comparable MeView (Dutch) before.
This luxurious platter, handcrafted from chestnut, is the perfect item to serve tequila on. The creators even thought of a small cutting board for the limes, salt bowls, paring knife and notches for the glasses and a bottle. This adds an extra experience to serving a tequila in a restaurant or club.
Beer brand Bavaria is launching in association with home delivery food website Thuisbezorgd.nl, the first pop-up restaurant without a kitchen. Between the 13th and 16th of February it is possible to compose your favorite home delivery meal of the best valued restaurants of this website. The restaurant will be equipped with a scooter lane to deliver the meals to the guests. The restaurant will be situated on the ‘Kop van Java’ in Amsterdam.
During the ‘Vakbeurs Facilitair’ (Facilitating Trade Fair) in ‘s-Hertogenbosch from 16 to 18 January, visitors can use one of the forty work spaces and two boarding rooms for free. This is the result of a collaboration between Nago Next (cleaning services), Ahrend (furniture), Desso (floor covering systems). Next to the extra service the visitors can experience the products and services of the companies in a real working environment.
Many people will fail their New Year’s resolutions in the next weeks. Therefore the Youth Food Movement organizes the ‘Sjiek de Friemel’ dinner in Restaurant Merkelbach, Amsterdam. During this event of ‘fallen New Year’s resolutions’ chefs from various restaurants cook a four-course dinner and there is an auction to collect money for the movement that focuses on making our food system more healthy and honest. All personnel works for free this evening.
Due to the 140th birthday of the Heineken brewery, they built this enormous video wall made of 5.000 beer bottles. Through a Facebook application you can leave a message to the world. Nice idea to wish everybody a happy new year. Until the 2nd of January 2013 you can admire the video wall as element of the Amsterdam Light Festival.
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