Tropicana city greenhouse
24-7-2013
The former swimming pool Tropicana will be converted into a city greenhouse where sustainability, creativity, entrepreneurship, food and coffee are the key. Where the old Wild Water Course was located, now rises a traditional coffee roaster and a coffee shop. The outdoor pool will be transformed into the summer terrace of restaurant ‘Picknick Rotterdam’. And at the mobile pizzeria Old Scuola you can order fresh pizzas made with mushrooms grown at the cellars of the former swimming pool. The new city greenhouse will be ready at the end of July 2013.
Breakfast beer
19-7-2013
Martin House Brewing Company has developed a special breakfast beer with 5% alcohol, the ‘Day Break 4 Grain Breakfast Brew’. The beer is made of barley, wheat, oats, rye, local honey, milk and sugar. The honey, milk and sugar give the beer a unique sweetness. But whether this beer can really replace breakfast nor it is wise to have a drink before the afternoon starts… For youth at camp sites it might be a better breakfast than a beer to wash away their hangover.
Pay with your face
19-7-2013
A new payment system based on face recognition is introduced in Finland. The system is called Uniqul and guests can pay by showing their faces for the camera and wait for their profile to conform their purchase. No pin codes, credit cards, wallets or fingerprints anymore…. Uniqul wants to improve the safety and speed of transactions. We are curious how this technical system will develop the coming years. Who knows we will pay in a number of years with our face at a terrace or a hotel and we no longer need our wallet any more.
The Paris guide to tourists
17-7-2013
Frenchmen have the image that they are often unfriendly to tourists and that they only speak their own language. The French who work in the tourism industry can now read the book ‘Do you speak touriste‘. This booklet is an initiative of CCIR and CRT from Paris and includes information for taxi drivers, restaurant staff and shop workers how to deal with tourists from different countries. The Dutch people often go on vacation in groups, spend an average of € 139,= per day and approximately 55% of the visitors would love to return within one or two years to Paris, according to the booklet.
Nutella web shop
17-7-2013
Nutella is very popular all over the world, but especially in America. The brand has recently opened a web shop in America where you can buy Nutella-related items, except the hazelnut spread itself! Items like t-shirts, coffee cups and smartphone cases are sold in the web shop. Nutella wants to give the fans the opportunity to prove their love to the brand beyond the kitchen. Up to now, the web shop only sends items within the U.S.
40 interactive cheeseburger recipes
15-7-2013
A real cheeseburger lover or need inspiration for cheeseburger recipes? The Cheese & Burger Society offers an interactive burger menu with 40 cheeseburger recipes with beautiful and delicious pictures. The Cheese & Burger Society gives an overview of cheeseburgers made with Wisconsin Cheese. So browse through the different burger recipes! Great way to promote your cheeses, we also really enjoyed the American way of presenting the cheeseburgers. We could do the same with all our Dutch cheeses…..
3D coffee marshmallows
11-7-2013
Latte art and latte 3D art is hot! But if you don’t have a professional barista to serve coffee with beautiful art creations? Serve your guests a cup of coffee with these cute 3D marshmallows. These marshmallows are available in the flavors green tea, cocoa and milk tea. They require no fancy latte art skills, because you just put them in a cup of coffee. Can these 3D marshmallows compete with the real 3D latte art?
Take away with style
10-7-2013
At the website of ‘The Special Choice’ you can order culinary dishes online, pay and collect them at the restaurant. This concept allows guests to enjoy culinary delights at home or at work. The dishes are healthy and responsible and prepared with fresh products. The dishes are provided with a quality label with the origin of the ingredients. The dishes are presented in a stylish way on plates with napkins and cutlery. As restaurant owner you can choose to donate a part of the sales to a good cause. The Special Choice takes care of order site, the packaging, the payment and the online promotion. Starting in the Netherlands at this moment.
Coffee beer
5-7-2013
Chocolate beer, honey-beer, tobacco beer… We now spotted coffee beer! Anchor coffee, a small coffee company in Japan and brewery Sekinoichi in Japan have developed a unique coffee beer. A drink for the real coffee and beer lover! During the brewing process of the beer they added coffee beans, the bitterness and aroma of coffee gives the beer a deeper flavor. To save costs, existing bottles have been used and are covered with small bean-shaped stickers. The packaging is designed by Nendo. Both villages where the coffee company and brewery are located, were destroyed by the tsunami in 2011. The coffee beer is a charity project to fundraise for disaster relief.
Camel milk mixologist
5-7-2013
The newly opened Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi, Grand Canal has a camel milk mixologist. The hotel offers different flavours of camel milk milkshakes, like strawberry and mint. The camel milk mixologist suggests guests which camel milk flavours to pair with different dishes to create the ultimate tasting experience. This service is being launched during Ramadan, to offer something special. Camel milk has a high content of protein and additional nutrients and is excellent to consume during the morning meal with Ramadan. Earlier we saw bread and chocolates of camel milk.
