Gourmet with pizza
21-5-2013
The Italian ‘Pizzafestijn’ Catering serves a pizza-gourmet besides Italian snacks and a live cooking buffet with pizza appetizers. With the pizza-gourmet guests can cover small fresh pizza bases with pizza sauce and ingredients of choice. These mini pizzas can be baked in a small pizza oven. A buffet of salad and oven baked Italian bread with herb butter is served with the pizza-gourmet. ‘Pizzafestijn’ also provides the ‘live cooking’ concept on events, where they bake fresh pizza appetizers.
Green GaultMillau
21-5-2013
Earlier this month, Gault & Millau Benelux published the ‘Green Gault & Millau’ for the first time. The guide highlights restaurants in the Benelux that give vegetables a preference on their menu. The book contains usefull addresses, tips about vegetables and interviews with health experts. Gault & Millau shows that cooking with vegetables is healthy and can be very delicious by offering vegetables recipes from chefs like Jonnie Boer, Niven Kunz and Gert Mangeleer.
Rabarcello
17-5-2013
Rhubarb is a plant from the knotweed family. These red stems have been sought for more than 5000 years for its medicinal purposes or processed into compote and used for desserts. Mister Kitchen and distillery Herman Jansen have captured the unique taste and fluorescent color in a bottle: ‘Rabarcello’. The sour, sweet and bitter taste are in perfect composition and without any additives a subtle 18% alcohol. Rabarcello can be served pure with some ice next to a fitting course, but also for cocktails.
Online market
17-5-2013
In response to our previous article about ‘Foodem‘ appears that we also have an online marketplace for suppliers and byers in the Netherlands, namely ‘Vers 24/7’. ‘Vers 24/7’ is part of Deli XL and started in September 2012. It’s an online platform for specialists and the hospitality sector, without the intervention of wholesale. Every fresh specialist has its own profile where he can determine his assortment and price range. ‘Vers 24/7’ transports the products of the specialist to the hospitality sector. At the moment the platform consist of more than 75 specialists including meat, fish, cheese but also Dutch wines. With this platform, regional products become more accessible for the hospitality sector.
Customize your meal before flight
17-5-2013
The Latvian airline AirBaltic gives passengers the opportunity to choose their meal before they are going to fly. When to costumer books his flight online, they can choose their own meal. They can choose from a range of meals, salads, bread, drinks and desserts. And to make the consumer more conscious of what they are eating, the nutritional information is described of each menu item . The customized meals are served by AirBaltic during the flight. An interesting way to offer passengers more choice and it can help to increase revenues.
Taste of the Netherlands
17-5-2013
Syntens Innovatiecentrum organizes the ‘Taste of the Netherlands’ for the sixth time in a row. It’s an annual election of the best product of Dutch origin. The regional qualifying rounds take place in June, where the products will be tasted by the jury. The ultimate finale of ‘Taste of the Netherlands’ will take place on 25 November.
Cheers sessions
16-5-2013
Drinking a glass of Duvel beer and get a two years ripened L’etivaz or Comté Fort Saint-Antoine cheese served with it.. The provocative character and the bitterness of beer fits well with cheese, and it is something different than a wine-cheese combination. Brewery Duvel Moortgat organizes master classes of cheese and beer tastings in cooperation with cheese specialists Michel and Frederic van Tricht. For each type of beer you can find a suitable cheese and vice versa. The cheers sessions start with a fragile cheese and a light beer and end with a strong cheese and beer. Combinations are for example Liefmans Cuvée Brut with a blue cheese or La Chouffe blond with Munster Fermier cheese, a hard cheese with a red crust.
Recharge your phone through an umbrella
16-5-2013
As the summer season begins, people often work outside. With this umbrella, guests at your terrace can recharge their laptop or mobile via an USB outlet. The umbrella has a small solar panel that converts solar energy into electricity for the USB outlet. Restaurants can provide their guests with extra service, allowing guests to spend more time on the terrace.
Saying it with flowers
16-5-2013
Obviously The Netherlands is a country filled with flowers that are used in every hotel bouquet or beautiful garden. But special details made out of flowers are not as day-to-day, like in the “Pangkor Laut Resort” in Malaysia where they make little pieces of art of flowers and put them in your room, in the garden or between towels. Do you want to read more examples of small gestures, read our last edition of ‘Royal hospitable gestures‘.
Baking burgers
16-5-2013
A totally different way to bake burgers! A wonderful movie about a burger seller of Singapore.
