Cooking on stone at De Librije
Jonnie Boer decided to move his restaurant De Librije from the former monastery in Zwolle to an indoor courtyard and was sure to make the kitchen the center of the restaurant, made by Dekton by Cosentino. read more
Jonnie Boer decided to move his restaurant De Librije from the former monastery in Zwolle to an indoor courtyard and was sure to make the kitchen the center of the restaurant, made by Dekton by Cosentino. read more
A music festival with a star level food line-up. This summer Japies Hof introduces besides numerous of musicians topchefs as Richard van Oostenbrugge, Pascal Jalhay and Syrco Bakker. read more
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, an article about sneakair who made a shoe which can help you find your way, getting high in Amsterdam with cannabis chocolates and a DIY kit to make your own wine! Perfect for the winelovers! If you like to read the whole article, click the title. Enjoy reading! read more
On the 28th and 29th of May the Culitruck festival will take place in Hulst, The Netherlands. Restaurant ‘t Vlasbloemeken (1 Michelinstar) will be presenting and serving a home-made lobsterburger: the Mc Lobster. We asked chef Eric van Bochove why he wanted to participate in the festival and what the guests can expect from the Mc Lobster. read more
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Orlando in Barcelona for FlytographerLast April we wrote about the ‘photo ambassador’ of the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea. Recently we also read that 35 Fairmont Hotels & Resorts started cooperating with photographers, united in Flytographer.com. This app connects travellers with professional photographers in over 160 cities worldwide. Consumers who are visually oriented are constantly seeing high-end lifestyle photo’s on social media, the result is that they also want the same type and quality photo’s. Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and the Four Seasons Resort at Maui are accommodating their guests to achieve this. read more
Last week the Tangla hotel opened in Brussels, part of the Tangla Hotels & Resorts, HNA Group. The introductory video from the Tangla hotel explains what the HNA Group means with Chinese hospitality. read more
A lot is happening in the world of craft beers. At this moment we have more breweries in the Netherlands than Belgium and every bar has a variety of craft beers on the menu. One of the new trends is to age beers, something which is already done by brewers or pub owners in the past. Thanks to the Bourgondische Bierkelder (the Burgundian Beer Cellar) this process will be available for the public as well. read more
Yes, you read that right. Burger King opened a private spa in one of the locations in Helsinki. Would you go to a spa in a Burger King? The red-blue sauna does feature a TV though and Burger King towels. And it’s possible to order a Whopper and eat it in the spa.
The Scottisch craft-beer brewery BrewDog is set to move forward with its plans to open a craft beer-themed hotel. They will build the BrewDog hotel in the neighbourhood of their brewery, with a ‘PUNK IPA’ tap in the hotel rooms. A true BrewDog experience. Through a crowdfunding campaign which ended last week they managed to raise 19 million pounds. The money is going to be used to build the new hotel and a new brewery. They will also invest in more pubs.
Twitter @vinniesbrooklynThis has to be a paradise for the real pizza lovers in New York. You are now able to order ‘the pizza box pizza’ at Vinnie’s Pizzeria in Brooklyn. Instead of getting your pizza in a regular box, you will now get your pizza in an edible pizza box. Just think ‘out of the pizza box’! 😉
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, an article about an artisan tortilla maker, the New York Times starts selling ingredients for recipes of their cooking website, and a link to an edible flowers guide! By the way did you know that you could eat banana peels? We found an article with recipes and will most certainly try one of those. If you like to read the whole article, click the title. Enjoy reading! read more
Toren Overhoeks was the former Shell Office and is currently being transformed into a vertical city. After 40 years of ‘isolation’, A’DAM Tower is going to let the general public enjoy this unique place in Amsterdam. A’DAM Lookout will be situated in the crown of the A’DAM tower. This will be an iconic observation platform which is missing now in Amsterdam. read more
At the website of Designboom we spotted the initial plans for a network of cable cars connecting Chicago’s city centre. Will these Skyline cable cars replace the hop-on hop-off busses in Chicago in the future? It could become Chicago’s unique feature like the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the London Eye. read more
Last Tuesday restaurant HanTing (1 Michelinstar) in The Hague tackled a world’s first. As the first restaurant in the world Michelin chef Han Ji launched an innovative Tea Menu. With each dish a matching and different tea was served, which, in combination with the food, has a positive effect on the human body. We tasted this Tea Menu! read more
Although the Netherlands is known as being the cannabis city of the world, we don’t have chefs pioneering with cannabis. As California prepares for the possible legalization of recreational marijuana in November, Los Angeles-based chef Chris Sayegh is on a pioneering mission to take haute cuisine to a higher place with his cannabis infused menus. 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
Another list with special hotels this time by SweetyDesign. They show hotels with photos of their interior. We already know a couple of them from lists in the past but it included a few new hotels. Like the Boat Hotel in New Zealand and the Anantara hotel in the Golden Triangle in Thailand. The photos are from the Museumotel (spotted in 2006) in France. Each bubble has its own decor. The room in the picture should do well for Valentine’s night!
On the website of Ediva they show how to make these eggs. Nice for on a salad on Valentine’s Day. For breakfast a heart shaped sunnyside up egg is great as well.
A taste of a dish debuting on the next menu at iNG Restaurant. Chef Charlie Harrison serves up the Chicken and Waffles course. Video by Future Food Films.
The first official Barbie Café opened in Taipei. Everything pink, dishes in the theme etc … Besides food and drinks you can also buy the official Barbie products. Mattel has chosen Taipei for this café because theme restaurants are very popular here. Watch the video of the opening.
Tony Plant is a time based, environmental artist and photographer whose imagination stretches to the corners of the coastline in the UK. For over 20 years he has made Guerrilla style installations in sand, snow or rocks. These paintings in sand are washed away by tide. With the gorgeous beaches in The Netherlands as well we could keep competitions like who makes the best temporary painting instead of sandsculptures. And for hotels with privat beaches, this kind of art can be done during cleaning the beach in the morning. It will make your guests smile. Watch the movie about the making of a sandpainting. Also see Beach pattern in Spain.
Starbucks introduces ‘Mondays can be great’ in the UK. From 7 January to 18 February you can get an extra strong cup of coffee for £1,50 until 11am. Click here for the promo video by Starbucks.
The chefs at Restaurant Kom Eten in Hoogmade (The Netherlands) show their passion for food on Valentine’s day. They’ve made a special desert and combine the ingredients directly on the table for a total experience. The combination of chocolate mousse, cocos crumbles and fresh blood orange will definitely impress your date. Check the video.
Tasting menus give people the chance to sample each delicacy the restaurant offers. With three or four dishes the chef simply can’t present his entire range of skills. The 5 most expensive tasting menu’s of America:
1. Masa***, New York City. $1160 for 2 persons
2. Joël Robuchon***, Las Vegas. $1115 for 2 persons
3. Meadwood**, St. Helena. $1080 for 2 persons
4. Ursasawa**, Los Angeles. $967 for 2 persons
5. Guy Savay**, Las Vegas. $ 891 for 2 persons
Once every ten days ‘The Pinnacle Grill’ restaurant at the luxury cruise ship MS Rotterdam will be turned into ‘The Librije’. The staff is trained in the Librije in Zwolle (The Netherlands) and is dressed in the same clothing as their collegues in the 3-Michelin stars restaurant. The wine is selected by Thérèse Boer and the five-course menu consists of signature dishes by Jonnie Boer.
Evian has placed a big swing and seesaw in the business district of London. This to mark the end of the holiday season and the return to work even in the greyness of January. To support its commitment to youth ‘Live Young’ placed these devices and the more people play, the more snow comes from the machines. Evian offers participants a childhood moment.
Designer Karl Lagerfeld will collaborate with Sofitel So Singapore (opening July 2013), for whom he provides the logo for the new hotel. The emblem will represent the original style of the hotel in Singapore in combination with the classical French twist of Sofitel. The Sofitel So Label works with designers to present collaboration between two countries as did Christian Lacroix at the Sofitel So Bangkok. Sofitel has recently opened new hotels in Mumbai, Rio and Sydney.
The new lobster and fish restaurant ‘The Lobster House + Studio’ opens its doors on the Frederiksplein in Amsterdam. You can go there for a dinner with oysters or lobsters but also for fresh sandwiches, salades and pasta with fish. The restaurant is located in an old parking garage. That gifs it an industrial look and feel. Look at the website for the menu.
The FabCafe in Japan features a mix of 3D printing, laser cutting and regular coffee menu. They introduced a high-tech machine that can make 3D shapes. In February, the shop organizes a special workshop where participants can make a unique 3D chocolate shape off their own faces. Nice for your Valentine?
A nice way to present your amuses on the table. A tree trunk from about 1 meter long suitable for 15 amuse slides. For sale at the First Impression Shop.
This handmade out of solid oak ‘Linger a little longer’ table designed by Jay Watson reacts to heat. The table is covered with a black thermochromic coating which allows people to leave a temporary mark. The surface responds to heat from a body part or a any warm dish or cup and becomes transparent to reveal the wood beneath.
Restaurant Belle and next door B&B Swaenenvecht in Utrecht organize a overnight lotery on Valentine’s Day. All couples who come to enjoy a 3-course dinner in Restaurant Belle may bring their suitcase. Because this evening a overnight in B&B Swaenenvecht will be raffled.
Only this week during the National Storytelling Week family restaurant Giraffe in London presents ‘Tell Us A Story’. Kids get free meals when they bring a book and their parents, grandparents or carers. Simply bring the kids to the restaurant untill 5pm, read them a story and the kids get a free meal when the adult orders a main course.
Pathé a chain of cinema’s, is testing a couple of new products. They now serve convenience fruit from the brand Chiquita and various flavors of popcorn in a rainbow presentation. While watching the movie, one can try 4 flavors of popcorn for € 7,50. Pathé does also rollout a selfservice concept Drinks & Bites.
The First Impression shop sells different kind of wooden plates. When you serve game, these plates are an assest to the dish. They’re light of weight and they can be cleaned in a dishwasher.
The restaurant ‘In de keuken van Floris’ in Rotterdam (Netherlands) offers vegetarians a surprising nine-course menu. With culinary delights without meat or fish, a delight for the vegetarian taste buds. Chef Floris Versluijs plays with acids, structures and contrasts. The restaurants also offers a menu with fish and meat.
The magazine DER FEINSCHMECKER launched a new restaurant app with the best restaurants of Germany. The app is always actual: openings, closings and for example the switches of chefs are updated daily.
If you’re looking for a job in the hospitality branch in the Netherlands, download the app from ‘Werkenindehoreca.nl’ and receive all jobs on your mobile phone. Available for iPhone and Android.
American top chef Grand Achatz has made a new movie. We came across it on the Twitter from Gastronomixs. We would love to go and eat at his restaurant whenever we visit Chicago. See also other clips as – Course comprised of 86 individual components – and – edible helium balloon.
Gastronomic safaris by boat, walks in Nordic Noir Copenhagen, concerts in warehouses and pop-up restaurants. All this during the Wondercool festival – Copenhagen’s cultural month of February. It’s a festival of music, art, food, design, architecture and fashion.
KRNWTR thinks it’s time for an app that maps tap water in the hospitality branch. Still you can’t order a glass of tap water everywhere. With this app you can see where they serve tap water and where they don’t. You can indicate where you’ve got tap water as well. Through crowd funding KRNWRT is trying to realize this app. You can invest from €2,50. Look here for more information.
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