Easter is the start of spring, go outside and enjoy the beautiful weather and the fresh products from the land. For the hospitality industry Easter is always rush hour, so time for inspiration! As restaurant owner you can pay attention to Easter in many ways, we will give you seven examples in this article. Still looking for small treats for your guests with Easter? Besides the examples in the article there is also a lot of inspiration for decoration, drinks, biscuits and egg dishes on the internet. Check out our Pinterest Easter board for the inspiration we enjoyed….
Have you also noticed? When visiting bars it’s always the choice; fun, relaxed atmosphere and simple drinks or fancy location and great drinks. Annoying! That’s exactly what the owners of the new bar Sweetwater Social in New York thought too and they decided to offer an alternative. The bar is located in a basement, has a cool but relaxed vibe and many bar games (darts, football table etc.) and is at the same time serving amazing cocktails! Another cool touch is that the cocktails are inspired by typical New York neighborhoods/subway stops. All in all a great new place in New York which I certainly hope will inspire more bars to have the same approach, fun & quality, who doesn’t want that?^Leonie van Spronsen
In cooperation with fourteen fishing communities around the world, fish expert Bart van Olphen launches FISH TALES on 25 March. FISH TALES is a unique line of sustainable seafood with fresh fish, smoked fish, canned fish and frozen fish, all with a plain origin. The fishermen are printed on the packaging with their name and photo, with recipes and tips & tricks Bart van Olphen want to motivate consumers to cook with sustainable seafood. Through the social network of FISH TALES and the website fishermen tell their story. In the ‘shortest cooking show in the world‘ (a movie of 15 seconds) Bart van Olphen prepares various fish dishes. He will also introduce his cookbook ‘Cooking with Canned Fish’ with more than 60 recipes in June.
Brewery Duvel Moortgat introduced the new Duvel Mini in the nhow hotel Rotterdam on Friday 21 March. The Duvel Mini contains 18cl rather than 33cl but does have the same familiar taste as the famous beer. The idea is to drink smaller amounts of beer at little moments, such like appetizers, a nip or during tastings. The Duvel Mini is available at supermarkets and at the better restaurants in the Netherlands.
Following the success of The London Coffee Festival, the organizer Allegra Events brings the event to the Netherlands. The first edition of the Amsterdam Coffee Festival will be organized on 2 and 3 May. During the festival, visitors can taste a variety of coffee and participate in competitions and workshops are organized, like the final of the Dutch Barista Championship, the Latte Art Championship and Brewer’s Cup. There are also music performances and art exhibitions like the photo exhibition of the Amsterdam coffee scene. The Amsterdam Coffee Festival is the start of the Dutch Coffee Week 2014. Watch the video of the London Coffee Festival for an impression.
Moët & Chandon unveils pop-up restaurant LE & in collaboration with Chef Yannick Alléno. The pop-up restaurant will open its doors at L’Orangerie in Epernay, on Moët & Chandon’s estate in France’s Champagne region from June 9 – July 9 2014. At LE &, guests are brought together around the table to experience the perfection of vintage champagne & visionary gastronomy; the culinary talent of Chef Yannick Alléno & the craftsmanship of Moët & Chandon Chef de Cave Benoît Gouez. Yannick Alléno crafted his delicious recipes to highlight the distinct flavors and subtleties of the Moët Impérial, the Moët Rosé Impérial and the Moët Nectar Impérial. Pre-booking starts in mid-April.
The Surf Sauna is specially designed for surfers who want to surf during snow and cold weather. Surfers can acclimatize in the Surf Sauna after their cold plunge. The mobile sauna is available in various sizes from 2 up to 8 persons and is weatherproof. There are special constructions for the surfboard on the outside of the sauna. The Surf Sauna is designed by a group of surfers in Portsmouth. Perhaps wintersporter goers can warm up in the sauna after a day of skiing.
After two years of experimenting and combining, Espresso Smith Coffee Company has introduced the ‘Whiskey Barrel Coffee’. The ‘Whiskey Barrel Coffee’ has the authentic flavor of a bourbon whiskey with the full flavor of coffee. By adding the green coffee beans in authentic bourbon barrels the best of worlds come together. This unique product provides a coffee experience like no other coffee can.
When visiting the cinema you are not looking for sounds like slurping, munching or chatting. Therefore, Coca Cola and Saatchi & Saatchi Denmark created a funny promotion with a group moviegoers in Copenhagen. To make them clear how annoying it can be when others making noise during the movie.
#Throwback Thursday. We started in August 2007 with horecatrends.com / hospitalitytrends.eu. In September 2007 we’ve spotted My Secret Kitchen in the UK. They sold their (food) products through a kind of Tupperware parties. My Secret Kitchen still exists and their motto remains the same; Host a tasting; Our dream is that, throughout the country, My Secret Kitchen will inspire friends to gather together and have a great time tasting. #isstillagoodidea
To advertise Flanders as a tourist destination in The Netherlands, several typical Flemish delicacies came from the Dutch FEBO snack wall . Visitors treated with a flair of Flemish hospitality as well. See the video for the promotion campaign.
To advertise Flanders as a tourist destination in The Netherlands, several typical Flemish delicacies came from the Dutch FEBO snack wall . Visitors treated with a flair of Flemish hospitality as well. See the video for the promotion campaign.
Patron Sicco Gerlsma of restaurant Tandjong Priok in Arum presented the results of a pilot against the waste of newborn young goats on 14 March. Before, young goats were wasted because they had no economic value. Through a regional approach involving a goat farmer, butcher and restaurants consumers can enjoy the goat meat in various dishes and prevent unnecessary waste and animal suffering.
From 31 March onwards, super market chain Albert Heijn offers four new vegetarian ready-made ??meals: &lasagna, &moussaka, &couscous and &chili sin carne. The meals are based on recipes from 2 ** Michelin Chef Moshik, chef and co-owner of & samhoud places in Amsterdam. Tomato is used to give a meat-alike experience in the meals. Of each meal sold € 0.05 goes to ‘SOS Kinderdorpen’.
On May 22nd, chef Dominique Ansel will open a new bakery dedicated to Asian bread culture at 64 University Place (between 10th & 11th Streets) read more
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Adam Goldberg is not a restaurant critic, nor is he involved with food professionally. He is a software engineer who has a passion to eat and share his culinary experiences. He does that by taking pictures of his meal and share those with his followers on Twitter, Facebook and his website. Most of the visited restaurants are at San Francisco, New York and Paris. And there are many more self-styled restaurant critics who are not professionally giving reviews and have a lot of followers. It’s a development we haven’t yet seen in the Netherlands. But do you have our Illucensies in Amerika?
One can take a massage at the beach in front of restaurant Bries in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. This to make your relaxing beachday complete. It’s a new service given at a few beachrestaurants in the Netherlands like Club Zand in Castricum and beachrestaurant Doen in Scheveningen. Yoga at the beach is seen more often in the Netherlands but the massages is a new development.
One can take a massage at the beach in front of restaurant Bries in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. This to make your relaxing beachday complete. It’s a new service given at a few beachrestaurants in the Netherlands like Club Zand in Castricum and beachrestaurant Doen in Scheveningen. Yoga at the beach is seen more often in the Netherlands but the massages is a new development.
Intel and Kraft Foods have collaborated on a virtual display concept intended to help shoppers decide what they should have for dinner. The Next Generation Meal Planning Solution incorporates sensors that use anonymous video analytics software to detect the age and gender of the person standing in front of it to determine which recipes may be a good fit based on collected demographic information.
Çurface is a new company that makes furniture out of recycled plastic cups and coffee grounds. The material they’ve come up with is a high impact polystyrene composite board that is malleable when heated. The surface of the material has the faceted look of crystal but is smooth in texture and reminiscent of chocolate, leather and stone.
Concrete Blonde is a 100-seat restaurant presided over by chef Patrick Dang who has brought the many nuances of his international experience to the stylish tables of Concrete Blonde. We loved the pictures at The Cool Hunter.
ING Direct in Italy discovered that positive testimonials from current ING customers were responsible for bringing many new customers into the bank. In order to highlight how word of mouth referrals were driving the bank’s business, Leo Burnett Milan decided to create a series of live executions featuring real customers framed against bank billboards. Thus giving potential customers on the street the opportunity to talk to ING clients firsthand. Inspiration for the restaurant or hotel business? Just put happy guests somewhere behind a table with a meal, or in a bed?
Illuminated walls to completely transform a space. Philips has announced a new product on the market, namely luminous fabric. The product is made in partnership with the Danish Kvadrat Soft Cells, a company specializing in sound absorbing panels. The durable panels are based on an innovative and patented aluminum frame with an invisible energy mechanism, that stretches the fabric perfectly smooth. The panels are integrated with LEDs and can be connected to an audio system to change color to the beat of the music. Look at the movie to learn more.
Recently we have indicated that the chain of the Great Wolfe Lodge works with RFID technology for a direct line of their guests to their Facebook pages. The Ushuaia Ibiza Beach Hotel recently launched an integrated whole Facebook concept for their hotel based on the same technique. The movie clearly shows how it works.
Another marketing campaign of Ben & Jerry’s. Invent a name for a new flavor, a name that has a relationship with something you want to improve at this world. For the winning name an amount of € 10.000, – will be donated to charity that matches the name. Ben & Jerry’s lovers in the Netherlands may choose from the entries.
There are a few people that have the skills and craft to make traditional ‘weckpotjes’, canned vegetables of fruits conserved by vacuum and sweet or sour. The fanatic people of ‘Picnic in the Park’ are one of those few. They describe themselfs as “energetic dreamers with a passion for canning who work on the set up of a small scale canning company to make products that combine the tastes of the old days with now”. Their products have names like ‘Bright Pickle Banner’, ‘Picallilli circus’, ‘Route du Soleil’ and ‘Ooops onion by the way’.
For the real handyman, if he is in charge of the to BBQ. Three varieties, mayonaise, kitchup and mosterdtix.
The first European Sample Central store is set to open in Budapest, Hungary. Operating in a similar way to Sample Lab (Japan), the new store allows its members to try out a range of products and services for free. The products can be taken home or at the store. The only “payment” that’s required is to complete online surveys regarding the tried products, providing valuable feedback to manufacturers.
Google has launched Hotel Finder, an experimental search tool that enables users to define key lodging preferences to find the perfect hotel for their travel needs. Users fill in their preferred location, dates, price and rating details, and Hotel Finder delivers its top recommendations in a list or on a Google Map. For the moment, it’s only available in the U.S.A. As far as we could see there are some new trics that make the search easier but it shows a lot of comparison to the search tools from for example Expedia and Bookings.
Just look at the youtube movie, and smile. At the mall, Les 4 Temps à la Défense, Paris, Coca-Cola light started its campagne Love it Light. As people passed the billboard, text emerged, asking questions or giving comments. Entertainment during the salesperiod.
Fruit & Maple Oatmeal; McDonald’s combines warm and delicious 100% natural whole-grain oats with brown sugar and a touch of cream and put in diced fresh apples, dried cranberries and two kinds of raisins.
Meal Snap lets you take pictures of the meals you eat and then magically tells you what food was in your meal. How Meal Snap Works: Snap a photo of your meal, add a descriptive caption and let the system auto-magically detect the nutritional breakdown, keep track of your meals & progress over time. Blogger Denise Amrich did test the app.
The heat resistant silicone food trussing tool designed to replace kitchen string and toothpicks in the prep and cooking process. Use thefoodloop® to hold small stuffed, rolled, bunched and wrapped meats, fish and veggies. Heat-resistant to 675ºF / 357ºC, reusable.
Very clever picnic blanket and garbage bag in-one. The CleanPicnic blanket, made of recycled plastic, is a blanket of 1 by 1 meter. After a picnic, the blanket can easily be transformed to a garbage bag, by putting the 3 ends through a opening in the fourth end. You throw the garbage bag away and thereby as well all the mess. You can also place an add at the blanket/garbage bag.
The Great Wolf Lodge chain in the United States provides RFID wristbands to their guests. These were used as room keys and in-house charge accounts before. But nowadays, these wristbands can be used to transmit photos, taken at the so-called Paw Posts in the park, to a Facebook wall. Share your offline experiences online.
Spoontrip is an international platform for a variety of activities around gastronomy and wine. The webiste is based on a crowdsourced concept and offers everything from workshops to meet-and-greets to gastronomy-themed holidays.
The Hush Pod, designed by Freyja Sewell of the University of Brighton, is the perfect way to hide and escape in public spaces.
Before going on a holidaytrip, the question rises ‘what to do with the plants’? The Isla Azul shopping mall in Madrid understood that “serving is the new selling”, and offers visitors a hotel-service, Hotel Para Plantas, for your plants. During your holiday you can leave your plants at the hotel, and the they will take care of your plants.
Coffee biscuits inspired by the logo’s of a city or tourist spots, designed by Eleni Gianopulos.
After having checked all your lists, still forgot something to bring with you on vacation? No worries, the holiday department store is there for you in times of emergency. The store can be found found at various campingsites in France this year.
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