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KUFcakes | Cake art by Kia Utzon-Frank

14-6-2017

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Food sculptures or designer cakes, some show an artistic and architectural approach to food like the KUFcakes. These are bespoke luxury cakes designed in close conjunction with the client. KUF stands for Kia Utzon-Frank who designs and creates her cakes by using a marzipan printer that creates patterns and imagery onto marzipan and fondant and cover the cakes to make edible sculptures that fit their surroundings. The artist indicates that taste is as important as the look. She hopes that the KUFcakes will make people curious and that the cakes will trigger them to start a conversation.

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Hard Rock Café Amsterdam | Playing outside and eat burgers

14-6-2017

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A big party at the Hard Rock Café in Amsterdam today. In honour of their 46st birthday, guests can order a ‘Local Legendary Burger’ between 11am and 12am for 71 eurocents per burger. Because of the fact that the birthday falls together with Nationale Buitenspeeldag (a day for children to play outside), the café organizes fun outdoor activities for kids such as bite-the-cake with the famous Hard Rock brownies and putting on glitter tattoos.

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DoorDash | Makes food delivery more convenient using robots

13-6-2017

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DoorDash is an on-demand restaurant food delivery services connecting customers with local businesses, now also by using robots. The company founded in 2013, is only to be found in the United States and Canada but their goal is to bring their services to every corner of the world.

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Share Mini Moët | World’s most expensive sixpack?

13-6-2017

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A fancy sixpack to share with your friends, the Share Mini Moët. Moët & Chandon, the well-known champagne brand, is now selling this sixpack.

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Nescafé | Ad for pop-up coffee shop trolls Starbucks

12-6-2017

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Nescafé has opened a pop-up coffee shop in Toronto, where everyone has to bring and make their own coffee. Indeed, you have to bring your own coffee otherwise you will not be able to enter the Coffee Taproom. The pop-up is a stunt by Nescafé and designed to promote the Nescafé Sweet & Creamy coffee sticks. The ad for pop-up Coffee Taproom trolls Starbucks!

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Cotton candy baked Alaska | Served at Chinese restaurant Philippe Chow

12-6-2017

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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.

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Trends we spotted | Week 23

9-6-2017

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At 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 amongst others the latest foodtrend on Instagram, coffee caviar. And the designer fruit: white strawberries.

If you like to read the whole article, click the title. Enjoy reading!

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Bammetjes Bier | The sister beer of Pieper beer

9-6-2017

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Bammetjes Bier, the new beer of restaurant chain Instock, not made of potatoes like their last years creation Pieper Beer, but out of bread leftovers.

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McDonald’s Brazil | Drive-thru truck

8-6-2017

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McDonald’s Brazil made the drive-thru way more convenient. They brought their food to their customers with the use of a  drive-thru truck. Their customers didn’t even had to drive to a restaurant, showing that convenience is their main selling point!

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Glonut | Glow in the dark doughnut

8-6-2017

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To celebrate Sidney’s annual Vivid Festival, Australian boutique patisserie Black Star Pastry created a glow in the dark doughnut, or as they like to call them Glonuts. If you are in Sidney you can get them at Martin Place, a pedestrian mall in the central business district of Sydney. They look amazing right?

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