The re-introduction of Reverse Delivery
Boston Pizza introduces ‘reverse delivery’ for the start of the Stanley Cup Playoffs 16 April. The promotion has a funny wink in it and appears to be merely for free-publicity purposes, watch the video here.
Boston Pizza introduces ‘reverse delivery’ for the start of the Stanley Cup Playoffs 16 April. The promotion has a funny wink in it and appears to be merely for free-publicity purposes, watch the video here.
In September, chef Michel Bras*** opened the deli ‘Capucin Signé Bras’ at the parking lot at the Millau Viaduct. The deli serves a variety of ‘Capucins’, that cost around € 7,=. A ‘Capucin’ is a crepe-like cone made of buckwheat and wheat, filled with local produce such as truffles, black pudding, foie gras, Roquefort etc.. A special variant of a simple sandwich. Michel Bras opened a second location along with his two sons and a local hotelier in Toulouse last January.
Online platform Spacified.com makes a match between temporary vacant spaces and designers, retailers and startups in Belgium and the Netherlands. The vacancy rate in retail spaces and offices increase and this brought founder Patrice Fleurquin the idea to develop a matchmaking service to bring both parties in contact. Spacified.com doesn’t only support starters, but also stimulates the creativity to set up an office, retail or event location. Recently Spacified.com and Voka ‘Chamber of Commerce Antwerp- Waasland, launched the POP-UP Guide. This guide gives visitors an overview of the newest, hottest pop-up stores in Belgium and the Netherlands. Currently, the guide only focuses on consumers, but can also provide cities and local authorities with information about the pop-up stores on longer-term. Spacified.com started a crowd funding project to extend the POP-UP Guide for five cities outside Belgium and the Netherlands.
Last Sunday I read a tweet from René Redzepi of Noma in which he indicated to close for two months early 2015. During that period, the entire team from Noma goes to Japan where they will cook in the restaurant of the Japanese chef Murata (restaurant Kikunoi). The philosophy of the cuisine of René Redzepi will be applied to the Japanese products. Great news for the Japanese foodies!
And yesterday the announcement of Heston Blumenthal in which he told that he will close his restaurant The Fat Duck as from December 2014, to reopen February 2015 for six months in The Crown Melbourne Resort. And Heston Blumenthal is also going to Australia with his entire team. After 6 months, the team is going back but a ‘Dinner by Heston Blumenthal’ remains at The Crown Melbourne Resort. Meanwhile, The Fat Duck will be rebuilt. A special way to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his restaurant.^Marjolein
Three design students from London came up with the ‘Ooho’: an easy, biodegradable and edible water bubble. Inspired by the techniques of molecular cooking, they developed ‘edible’ water. The water tank of the ‘Ooho’ is made of algae and can be eaten. Perhaps the solution for all the waste that remains of plastic water bottles. The students won the Lexus Design Award 2014.
Thrillist.com gives an overview of seven floating hotels around the world. Like the Salt & Sill, a floating hotel in Sweden with a modern Swedish interior or the Yellow Submarine that is inspired by the movie ‘The hunt for red October’ with Sean Connery. The video above is from the River Kwai Jungle Rafts Resort in Thailand. This unique floating hotel is located in the jungle of Kanchanaburi and only accessible by boat. The hotel is built of wood and bamboo, the rooms are simple and have a veranda with hammocks. Take a look at the complete list here.
Last weekend, I have been reading a Dutch Magazine ‘Bouillon‘ (spring 2014). Each time a delight to read all the independent and surprising stories with the food culture as theme. Since I recently read somewhere about fried rooster combs I found it very interesting to read (I’m sorry but in Dutch) the story about roosters. Late January Nel Schellekens of Dutch restaurant ‘De Gulle Waard‘ in Winterswijk has prepared a dinner in cooperation with barbecue champion Ralph de Kok, made with all kinds of goodies such as hay rooster, smoked rooster, butterflyd rooster, pâté etc. In this article is stated that about 40 million roosters be gassed annually on their first day of life, in the Netherlands only. On the website, the comeback of the rooster (Sorry Dutch only), you’ll find recipes and more background information. They started the website in the hope that less roosters will be killed. I guess I will put a rooster on the menu with Easter. Good to see that there are more and more initiatives to bring ‘forgotten animals’ on the plate. Last week we posted an article about the meat of young goats and the goose isn’t forgotten either. ^ Marjolein
Spanish chef David Muñoz of restaurant DiverXo*** in Madrid and the urban hotspot StreetXo has announced to open a new branch of StreetXo in London in June 2014. David Muñoz traveled around the world and after several years of training in various kitchens in London he returned back to Madrid. His special street food dishes originate from his journey from London to South East Asia and is influenced of course by Spain. StreetXo restaurant in London will be open and airy with an open kitchen and a bar with an inventive cocktail selection. The menu will feature 12 to 14 dishes that change continuously.
Brasserie Baerle does not participate in the Restaurant Week . Neither in Dining with the stars, Dining with the rising stars, the Restaurant Festival and all other weeks. Opposite, they do organize their own ‘Brasserieweek’. No discounts but perks. During the ‘Brasserieweek’ (12 -26th of March) guests received an aperitif of the house. More interesting was that they served four of the best wines from their cellar for only 7 euros per glass. This Brasserieweek; the Brut Champagne Bollinger , Chablis Vieilles Vignes 2011 Lavantureux , Nuits -Saints -Georges 2011 Confuron and Chateau Olivier 2000 Grand Cru Classe , Pessac – Leogan. We do hear more restaurant owners complain that the participation of these weeks is so expensive and that the guest still expect you to cook at the same high standards. Brasserie van Baerle doesn’t complain but does address this matter in their own way. You can organize your own week if you have a pretty solid group of guests, like the Brasserie has, which you can achieve through a newsletter and social media. In 2014 the newsletter from the Brasserie is devoted to their wine alphabet. The announcement of the Brasserie Week fell under the E from Extras. ^Marjolein
March was a great start of spring, for us as guests and for your turnover as hospitality entrepreneur! In this edition you will find examples of extra services for your guests that you can offer without making large investments, because some gestures are so small that the guest barely registers it. With examples of the Hampshire hotel, Hotel Mitland, the Carlton Oasis and some inspiring, special sweets to be served with your cup of coffee or tea. Download the edition here.
The Food Line-up and Streetfood Netherlands organize the ‘Big Street food Competition’ in the end of September. The Netherlands counts more than 200 mobile kitchens (food trucks), but the available street food is currently limited by law. During the ‘Big Street food Competition’ street food entrepreneurs battle in various categories like the best concept or the best piece of meat. An independent jury will choose the winners. Perhaps this contest can influence the (political) opinion about Street food in the Netherlands.
The Aromafork of Molecule-R gives a new dimension to a dish. A large part of what you taste is based on smell, the Aromafork adds an extra flavor to a dish through smell. The fork has a thin paper where you can drip one of the 21 different aromas on and will gradually gives a scent while you eat. Vanilla, lychee, mint, truffle, ginger and coriander are available. You can make surprising flavor combinations with the Aromafork and guests will sure be surprised!
A fresh South-African Sauvignon Blanc; not in a bottle but in a convenient portable bag. After earlier success in South-Africa, Atlantique Wines introduces the Sauvignon Blanc 6|7 bottled in a wine pouch of 1.5 liters in the Netherlands. The wine pouch is easy to cool and perfect for festivals or for the beach.
#Throwback Thursday. We started in August 2007 with horecatrends.com / hospitalitytrends.eu, in April 2009 we posted an item about Richard Branson who had decided to open a number of boutique hotels for the richest guests in the world. He already had an island that he rented regularly. Meanwhile, there are some wonderful locations! We saw the above shown video from 2011 and find it unfortunate that we are not yet so rich ;-). The video is a bit long but show some beautiful locations and it might inspire other hotel entrepreneurs. Also, check out the V’LOG (Virgin Limited Edition’s blogs) page on the website.
Leonie van Spronsen spotted the first cupcake ATM in New York by Sprinkles. The company already had cupcake ATM’s in Beverly Hills, Chicago, Atlanta, Las Vegas and Dallas and grew to a respectable chain of shops since 2012.
We’re already in the third week of October, and more and more festive inspiration is popping up online. Pinterest remains a wonderful source of ideas, 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
The developers of Punchfork combine the strength of social media with delicious recipes. By searching various food blogs (like 101 Cookbooks, The Pioneer Woman, Epicurious, Serious Eats, Food Network and The Kitchn) and measure reactions they unveil the popularity of the recipes. The site is real time updated so new recipes are usually online in a few minutes.
If the question “What do we eat today?” is a daily ritual, check out these seven plates. They can provide direction with their characteristic shapes for specific meals. Designed by 5.5 Designers, who probably aren’t fan of sauces.
An eco tip for hotels; use the water supply as an energy source. This radio gets its energy from built in micro turbine.
The food trucks are very popular in America these days. With the use of Twitter and Facebook the (potential) customers are updated about the location of their favorite truck. Because these social media offer limited sales tools, CloudSource Labs has developed FoodTruck FastPass. This special Android app makes it possible to keep statistics, it allows to offer online ordering and supports group discounts.
50 fans of the Facebook of Domino’s Pizza and Ben & Jerry’s where invited for a family picknick. Both companies aimed to create a larger online community by organizing a lotery. During the picknick the fans got to to taste the new salads of Domino’s and the ice creams of Ben & Jerry’s.
Waste materials are used for this Tubohotel, located in Mexico, and features 20 hotelrooms transformed out of concrete pipes. This hotel is designes by architects of T3arc. The hotelroom consists of a queen-size bed, desk light and a van. The pipes don’t allow bathroom facilities, but they have created two communal bathhousses onsite which features private showers.
From Tuesday the 19th of July there is a weekly dinner club at Mediamatic with products that have passed the expiration date. The organizers want to create more attention for the use and misuse of expiration dates and therefore show that it’s possible to cook with products that otherwise would be thrown away. Bring expired products after RSVP and get in for free.
The website love.holland.com collects all online images from Twitter and Mobypicture that are tagged with, for instance, #love010, #lovebrabant or #lovemadurodam. Every photo with #love… is categorized per province, city or special place of interest. The website is developed to promote tourism in The Netherlands and lanched by ‘Nederlands Bureau voor Toerisme & Congressen’ (NBTC) and Mobypicture.
GO Marketing is designing and developing a floating island in the harbour of Rotterdam in corporation with IOU Architecture. The island features two floors that measure a total of 1.700m2. It will offer visitors a swimming pool, whirlpool, park, restaurant, sauna, Turkish steambath and more. The island is mobile, made of recycled materials and provided with the latest energy saving technologies.
Refilling your water bottle for a better environment. That is the idea behind the Hydration Stations on the international airport of San Francisco, passengers can find behind the security checkpoint. This is introduced by Virgin America to reduce the plastic bottles handed over to the security agents. Virgin America swag shop offers special branded water bottles.
CityLemon is a new online restaurant guide, where you can find the most unique restaurant concepts, compiled by website users, locals and several bloggers. Of both Dutch and European cities, a restaurant top 10 is represented. But no more than 25 restaurants per city can be found on the website.
Ikea opens a temporary hotel for short naps along the highway. Motorists can nap for 20 minutes on one of the Ikea matrasses in Beaune (France) from the 13th to the 31st of July. Ikea states that it wants to help improving road savety but also interest people for its matrasses.
Whatser launches a mobile hotspot sharing app in collaboration with Heineken. The aim is to share and recommend hotspots with the app instead of your actual location. Whatser is available for iPhone, Android (from 2.2 on) and Blackberry. (Hospitality) locations that want to inform their regular visitors can keep track for a small fee per month.
One of his lines is ‘In Coffee We Trust’ and the love for food, drinks and Italy is visible in much of his works. This pop up contemporary art exposition located at Rokin 75 (Amsterdam) is open daily from 9.00 – 21.00 o’çlock untill the 21st of July.
One of his preferred lines is ‘In Coffee We Trust’ and the love for food, drinks and Italy is visible in much of his works. This pop up contemporary art exposition located at Rokin 75 (Amsterdam) is open daily from 13.00 – 20.00 o’clock until the 21st of July.
Well known liquor brands and Amsterdam bars join hands to surprise the audience during the Amsterdam Bar Week from the 19th to the 23rd of September. A few concepts are already confirmed, others will develop over the next months. There is for example an exclusive Hennessey tastery in The Sopranos Piano Bar, a ‘Contreauversial’ make-over by Cointreau and Rob Peetoom in collaboration with Okura’s 23rd bar and a ‘Barista meets bartender’ evening with cocktail-coffee blends from Drambuie and Buscaglione in Little Buddha.
NH Hoteles has created a fanpage on Facebook where people can claim their own hotel room. All NH Hoteles are mapped and the room is claimed by loggin in with the Facebook username. Only one registration per room is possible and visible by a sticker next to the door. The winner can stay a week in his or her ‘own’ room for free, travel expenses are also paid for by NH Hoteles.
For everyone who sports for the social element there is the football cocktail shaker. The two parts lock tight and after a heavy match one can look forward to a well shaken cocktail.
Wake up with the smell of bacon. This alarm clock starts to bake bacon 10 minutes before the wake up time. A tasty start of the day.
A bike ride turns out to be romantic with this ‘Sofa Bike’. The bike is build around a loveseat for two, to ride through the city relaxed and romantically. The ‘Sofa Bike’ was presented during DMY Berlin 2011 (International Design Festival). Nice to rent this bike to your hotel guests.
With this free app you find all the top restaurants on your iPhone. Users can find restaurants by searching on name, location, province and price, but as well by the rankings of the Michelin, GaultMillau and Lekker restaurant guides. Since the launch in October 2010, the app is almost 100.000 times downloaded.
Tea is healthy. The creators make a statement by packing Rosy Lee’s Remarkable Remedy tea as medication.
An urinal on the tree is a nature friendly solution for crowded toilets at festivals. It’s possible to connect the urinal to the sewage system or a septic tank.
The Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain hotel, located in Arizona, has introduced a new dinner experience called Splash Dining. The table is set in the pool, so the legs of the guests are refreshingly immersed in the water, while a three-course diner is served. The dinner is served by chefs wearing the aquatic version of a chef’s jacket.
For going out for dinner you don’t have to leave the house anymore. At the new Dutch website completentje.nl, complete dinners can be ordered, which are delevered at home. A dinner box provides the meals, the drinks, a description how to prepare the dinners and even the napkins and the candles. You can choose between an Italian menu or a French menu.
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