Cotton candy baked Alaska | Served at Chinese restaurant Philippe Chow

12-6-2017

Upscale Chinese restaurant, Philippe Chow, in New York City serves a spectacular dessert: a cotton candy baked Alaska. Baked Alaska, also known as ‘omelette Sibérienne’ or ‘omelette Norvégienne’, is a classic dessert made of cake, ice cream and beaten egg white. read more

World’s first Nutella Cafe about to open soon

18-5-2017

Do you love Nutella, the popular hazelnut spread for on your bread, pancakes, desserts or whatever makes your taste buds happy? Then we have spotted something interesting for you! Ferrero, the makers of Nutella® is pleased to announce the opening of their first owned and operated restaurant, the Nutella Cafe! On the May 31st, world’s first Nutella Cafe will open in Chicago, United States. read more

Russian Cuisine | At Teremok in New York

10-5-2017

Last month I visited Tribeca, not in New York but in a small town in the Netherlands, Heeze. At restaurant Tribeca (two Michelin stars) we ate a delicious, chefs version of Borsch, the famous Russian beetroot soup. It tasted so great that I went looking for a recipe and while searching at Google I found an article at The New Yorker about the opening of the first Teremok restaurants outside of Russia in New York City at Union Square and Chelsea. Is the Russian cuisine growing in popularity? read more

Pizza Pilgrims | Calzone your favourite chocolate bar

16-3-2017

What about a dessert calzone with your own taste of chocolate or as you could say BYOC – Bring Your Own Chocolate. Pizza Pilgrims in Shoreditch London added an option on their menu where you can calzone your favourite chocolate bar. So if you’re obsessed with chocolate, you know where to go for a custom-made chocolate calzone. read more

Pancake day | List of special pancake ideas

8-2-2017

On the 24^th of March it will be the National Pancake Day in the Netherlands. On this day, elementary school students throughout the country will be baking pancakes for elderly in their neighbourhood. Schools can still sign up for this day! If you really want to surprise them these days, you should check out these special pancake ideas we collected! Also good inspiration for pancakes restaurants! read more

The rainbow food trend in latte art

8-9-2016

We’re following a couple USA based trend websites and they’re all showing the rainbow food trend. Because we’re not particular fond of the food colouring business, we never wrote about all those normal everyday foods that are popping up in rainbow colours. But although we don’t fancy drinking it, we have to admit some people are making great colourful latte art. We wonder when we’re going to get our first colourful coffee latte!  read more

USA Food trends according to ‘Think with Google’

31-8-2016

Think with Google, food trends based on the top searches in the United States. In this report Google gives an insight how the power of data can be used to predict and use trends. Because we know that trends spotted in the United States most likely will hit Europe in the next couple of years, we love to share some of these so-called food trends. We made a list of dishes and products that most probably will be popular soon in Europe as well. Let’s deep dive in some of the not yet very known products and dishes in Europe like Turmeric, Bundt Cakes, Cauliflower Rice, Pho, Overnight Oats, Bitter Melon, Jackfruit, cheese Curds, Italian Pasta and Funfetti…..

These are our picks of the rising stars from the USA food trends of ‘Think with Google’ read more

Use the Pokémon Go Hype! A list of examples.

19-7-2016

Charmander, Bulbasaur or Squirtle? Which Pokémons did you catch? Pokémon GO has been launched in Japan and Australia two weeks ago and is since this weekend also available in the Netherlands. Since there are so many people who are playing the game there are a lot of companies that try to pick up the hype, also in the hospitality industry. For example the Pokébal pancake in Aalten, free drinks for those who catch a Pokémon, a Pokémon GO bus tour, a Pokémon GO Festvial and people are even spotting Pokémons during the Nijmeegse wandelvierdaagse (a 4 day walkingtour). And most recently we spotted a Pokémon GO friendly hotel. See the list with examples! read more

Healthy fastfood concept Grown extremely populair

28-6-2016

Health and fastfood are two words that rarely appears together. NBA player Ray Allen felt like this needed to change, and opened his own healthy fast-food business. Grown, which is the name of the restaurant, can be found in Miami and looks good. read more

Nutella Festival

29-2-2016

What began as a joke on Facebook has now turned into the first Nutella Festival of the Netherlands, wich will take place on the 16^th of July in Amsterdam. read more