Restaurant Alinea
Another great video of Restaurant Alinea, created by Christian Seel. Check also the video of the lamb course or the edible helium balloon.
Another great video of Restaurant Alinea, created by Christian Seel. Check also the video of the lamb course or the edible helium balloon.
For the new campaign, fashion brand Stussy worked together with FreshCotton. FreshCotton has monopoly on the sale of Stussy t-shirts and as a result of this collaboration they launched a cookbook that uses a typical ingredient of Amsterdam, weed. For this project FreshCotton asked the highly rated chef Misha Sukyas to create recipes with every street-legal drugs available in Amsterdam. The project shows what we like about Amsterdam: fashion, good food and having fun. Check out the website of FreshCotton for recipes.
Early February Bastian Heuser (Barworkz), Mario Grünenfelder (Rocco & Sanny, AMANO Bar) and Sebastian Brack (soda brand Thomas Henry) opened in cooperation with Tanqueray No. TEN a pop-up Gin and Tonic Bar in Berlin. The bar features classic cocktails with gin and tonic in numerous variants and they differ every season. In addition to the various cocktails, they also serve gin and tonic tea variants. The G&T bar organizes workshops and lectures and will be open for one year. Last 27 and 28 March there was a pop-up Gin and Tonic bar in Covent Garden London as well. Pop-up bars are regularly used to promote drinks.
With the ‘Tea Fusion’ Lipton offers a new tea concept. The quality and experience of making a cup of tea will increase. During making a cup of tea, the tea will experience a ‘Tea Fusion’ that is visible through the transparent cylinder. As a result it releases an enhanced smell, color and taste. Lipton has a special assortment of teas from Kenya available for the Tea Fusion concept.
The Canadian pizza chain ‘Boston Pizza’ has launched a new bun-less menu on April first. The Pizza salad, Choco pizza and the Pizza Bread Pudding of the menu were a joke, but the Pizzaburger is apparently, not a joke! The Pizzaburger is not just a burger with a pizza topping, but it is an actual bacon hamburger wrapped in a pepperoni pizza with a hand-pressed crust smothered in pizza sauce and mozzarella. There is also a five-cheese Pizzaburger available
Beer and Bubs is a one-night session for expectant dads to learn how to support their partner through the birth of their baby. The session is held in pubs in Australia. The program is perfect for first time fathers who don’t know what they’re in for and it helps men gain the practical knowledge they need to be involved in the births of their children. During the session the man will meet dads who recently became father and other expectant dads. The Beer and Bubs is run in local pubs in all major cities of Australia. Seems to us a hilarious subject for a good night out for bachelor parties or baby showers for men.
‘Somersby’ is the new cider brand from Carlsberg – Real Refreshment. It is a naturally-balanced, medium cider, made with no artificial flavorings or sweeteners. Since every third ad has to be an Apple parody now, Carlsberg makes fun of Apple Store product launches in this TV spot for Somersby Cider from agency Fold7. Great advertisement….
A cup of coffee or an ice cream on hold.. At ice cream parlor Mezzo in Amsterdam it is possible to order a cup of coffee or ice cream and put it on hold for someone who can’t pay it. It does not necessarily have to be a cup of coffee, it may also be a (hot) drink, or in this case an ice cream. A simple way to do something for others, without knowing who it is. This tradition began in Naples (Italy) but starts to spread across the world rapidly. Earlier we saw that consumers could put a cup of coffee on hold for someone at Coffee Company (The Netherlands).
During the Guinness Draught bottle launch, a new world record ‘Farthest Beer Bottle Slide’ was set! New sport for in the pub?
This is only possible in America, a donut in the shape of a chicken for Easter… Shall we see a ‘bolus’ (Dutch treat) into the shape of a chicken next year in the Netherlands?
Another list with special hotels this time by Tripadvisor. Tripadvisor gives an overview of ten quirky hotels all over the world. Like spending a night in a train station or on a oil rig. The photos are of the Costa Verde Hotel in Costa Rica. The hotel has renovated a vintage Boeing 727 from 1965 and transformed it into a hotel room with two bedrooms and a bathroom. The room offers a beautiful view over the jungle and will make you feel like you are flying. Watch the website Tripadvisor for more quirky hotels.
The Viva Las Vega’s foundation organizes the Viva Las Vega’s Food Festival at June 1st in Amsterdam for the third year in a row. The festival is a sympathetic and accessible introduction to the vegetarian cuisine. There will be culinary workshops, interesting lectures, a Food and Lifestyle Market and food films. The festival is also the ending of the VeggieChallenge, a 30-day challenge for meat reducers.
Koppert Cress and Gastronomixc have been working together and designed a component schedule. Gastronomixs is a worldwide culinary database and an idea generator for chefs and food professionals. The schedule shows that you can do more with the Aclla Cress (fresh citrus flavor) than just food garnish. Be inspired by the many possibilities that this schedule, like a mild curry of Aclla Cress and almonds or an aromatic broth with citrus and Aclla Cress.
Copyright PravdaJamie Oliver is preparing to launch a hot dog restaurant in central London, named Jamie Dog House & Diner. The hot dog restaurant will be in American style, with grilled sausages, burgers and big juicy steaks. Hot dogs aren’t that healthy, but Jamie Oliver will give the dishes a twist to make it healthy. The meat will be organic and of the highest quality and the sauces will be made of natural ingredients. The menu will show more healthy options.
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
Douwe Egberts cleverly anticipates on all the political drama of recent weeks. Look-alikes of prime-minister Balkenende and former minister of Finance Bos, asked the real Balkenende and Bos to vote for their favorite coffee. This action is part of the campaign ‘Party for the coffee’. With this campaign, Douwe Egberts is trying to convince companies and employees to choose good coffee at work.
The designstudio Kikkerland enlivened the traditional whisker with colorful shapes of animals. It is not really functional, but it does make you happy while cooking.
Perhaps the smallest pop-up hotel as a promotional stunt for the city of London. The caravan, which is nine meters, has everything you would expect in hotel, from a check-in desk to a bathroom. People who are interested may participate in a competition om March 7th. The winners will stay in the caravan from March 15th to 19th.
This free application by the Royal Dutch Hockey Association, provides up-to-date hockey leagues in the Netherlands, including the amateur-league. Within a minute users know what happened in the competition and the game they’re playing next weekend.
The first give-it-forward website by Ben & Jerry’s. An initiative by which you give away something of yourself and get something back from somebody else. Ben & Jerry’s takes the lead and gives away 100 ice creams. Whoever makes the bid, will in return offer something the others can bid on.
This puzzle shaped bread-cutter makes it easier for small children to eat their sandwich. The products and packaging are recyclable.
Open Ways, a specialized security company, has designed a system allowing guests to open the door of their hotelroom with a smartphone application. When opening the application, the phone plays a coded acoustic signal. If the door recognizes the sound, the door will open.
In several communitycentres in Amsterdam, Repair Café takes place every month. People can come with their broken furniture, clothing or computers and try to fix it. Tools are provided by the community centre.
Cubin is a disposable waste container that can be placed on the table. If guests leave a table, the container and all its contents can be discarded.
A digestif does not get any more luxorious than this truffle brandy Tartufino. The liqueur based on brandy, honey and white truffle is available in three versions: After Dinner, Original and Gold (with gold leaf).
On March 18th this new hotel in Zaandam will be open. The hotel consists of nearly 70 traditional houses that are stacked. The big eye-catcher is the blue house on top of the hotel, which was designed after a painting by Claude Monet.
The originally from England restaurantchain Wagamama has developed its own iPhone application. This app allows guests to see where the nearest Wagamama restaurant is, look through the menu, to order meals and indicate when an order will be picked up. According to them, they are the first restaurant with its own iPhone app.
A funny replacement for a tea bag tea is a cigarette. The tealeaves are packaged like cigarettes, the tobacco has been replaced by tea leaves. The filter ensures that the “cigarette” floats, so it is easy to take out of the cup.
Coca Cola’s new coffee brand “Far Coast” placed these sustainably developed seats in the Olympic Village during the Olympics, to promote the new coffee brand. The chairs are made so that they can easliy be combined to multiple seats.
Every year many small children get injured by burns from hot drinks. In order to solve this the ‘mummy mug’ is developed. A cap for your mug. You can only drink coffee by pressing your upper lip on the cap.
Don’t you like hot dogs, but you do like the shape of a hot dog? With this device designed by Taylor Gifts is possible to make all kinds of food in the shape of a hot dog. Perfect for parents who’s kids are addicted to hot dogs and they want them to eat something different.
To give somebody a cookie is always a good idea. Now, you can put a personal message on your cookies. Seperate letters can be assembled into a baking dish and personal messages can be added to the biscuits.
Design Bridge has developed two new pints, which are much safer than traditional pints. The prototypes consist of Glass Plus (left photo) and Twin Wall (right photo). Glass Plus has a thin, transparent layer of organic resin on the inside and Twin Wall consists of two ultra-thin layers of glass which are joined together, similar to glass in car windshields. Both prototypes ensure that when the glass breaks, the dangerous glass shards are held together securely.
Tak studio has designed a ‘road lamppost-and-windturbin-in-one’. By catching the wind and airflow caused by the cars speeding by, energy is generated. This energy causes the street lighting to turn on. The lampposts no longer need to be connected to the powernetwork.
Inspired by a movie where someone lost an eye due to a teaspoon, this teaspoon is eye-freindly. By bending the end, it is safe to drink coffee or tea with the spoon in the cup. The spoons are available in several trendy colors.
Design student from the Design Institute in Nantes, Adrien Cussonneau, designed a very original bottle. From one side it looks like a normal glass bottle, the other side of the bottle however is completely flat.
At the airport of Sao Paulo, Brasil, these luggage carts are available. By the image of the Paralympic athlete it looks as if a wheelchair is pushed forward. Howerver, this is a fund raising campaign for athletes. So that they are able to attend the paralympics.
For those who always get cold arms when reading a book in bed, Happinessinbed thought of this duvet with sleeves.
It is often difficult to butter your sandwich with cold butter. Cookit, a French company designed a butter grater. By grating the butter thinly it is easier to butter. In addition, you use less butter which is better for your health.
Restaurant Instructables opened in Amsterdam. This restaurant is a so-called “open source restaurant”. This means that of everything you eat in the restaurant, the recipe can be found on their website, as well as an instruction about how to recreate the furniture.
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