Dip your fries into a chocolate dipping sauce

19-12-2013

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No mayonnaise, ketchup or curry with the fries but a chocolate dipping sauce?! Japanese fast food chain Lotteria will serve its fries with a Lotte Ghana chocolate dip called ‘Dipping Fries’ in the months January and February. The salt of the fries and the sweetness of the chocolate makes a unique combination. We have tried the fries with chocolate at the office and… A few colleagues thought it was pretty good but most prefer mayonnaise!

Driving restaurant through The Hague

19-12-2013

A driving tram through the city of The Hague and during the trip a high-quality four-course dinner while passing the highlights of the city. Around February 2014 this will be possible in tram restaurant Hoftramm. The driving tram will be transformed into a modern and elegant restaurant and has all amenities including a kitchen, bar and toilets. Tram restaurant Hoftrammm will be a route through the center of The Hague six days a week and the guests will get served a four-course dinner with a matching beverage package. To achieve the tram restaurant there is currently a crowdfunding campaign.

Conscious Clubbing

18-12-2013

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Start 2014 without a hangover. The organizers of the ‘Chocolate Club’ celebrate New Year Eve with a conscious clubbing night. Drink alcohol-free super-drinks and elixirs with natural ingredients and watch the fireworks over Amsterdam from a hot tub or dance the night away in the ‘Amsterdam Dansmakers’–studios. Recently we mentioned the rise of superfoods, this is the first healthy clubbing concept that we came across. See the video of the previous edition in July.

50 hours for Pumba

18-12-2013

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Saturday 11 January the chubby Gasconne pig ‘Pumba’ will be honored. The pig entered the Lindenhoff farm as a 20 kg piglet and is now, at the age of five, ready to be roasted next to open fire for 50 hours (!). Organizers Baaf Vonk and Roel van Vliet from Varkensroosteren.nl work together with restaurant Old-School in Amsterdam. The cooks are already working on mouthwatering recipes like ‘schwein with sauerkraut and Schwarzbier’, pig belly with Korean kimchi or American pulled pork with chutney.

julius bar&grill

17-12-2013

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IQ Creative, known from i.e. the Supperclub, Envy, Mercat and Mazzo, collaborated with chef Julius Jasper to open julius bar&grill. At the heart of the transparent kitchen there are a gigantic charcoal grill and two ceramic closable barbecues. The restaurant has various table settings with communal tables, an extended 15 meter long Chesterfield and three rooms for private dining. One of the rooms is decorated as a wine chamber and has room for six, the second room is a cozy living room with space for ten and the third is a library with inspirational books from and by Julius Jaspers.

A Christmas tree on your plate

17-12-2013

Inspiration for on the Christmas plate. Do you have special ‘Christmas’ dishes that you want to share with the visitors of Horecatrends? We love to hear from you! Send pictures to tip@spronsen.com.

Largest gingerbread house ever

17-12-2013

For building this large Hansel and Gretel gingerbread house, and amount of 7.200 eggs, 22.304 pieces of candy, 820 kg butter and 1360 kg sugar with a total of 36 million calories were used. The house is built by volenteers to raise charity for the St. Joseph Hospital in Texas and will be part of the Guinness book of records as the largest gingerbread house ever.

Christmas without bulging

17-12-2013

We recently received the press release ‘Christmas without bulging’ by the Diabetes Foundation. A study shows that the majority of the Dutch people are less eager to eat healthy in December. The Diabetes Foundation concluded this based on search trends in Google. In January people start Googling on ‘healthy recipes’ and ‘diet’ but in December those search terms are hardly used. According to the Diabetes Foundation, a missed opportunity, because delicious and healthy food at Christmas is possible indeed.

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Grilled or melted cheese sandwiches

16-12-2013

A cheese lover? Then you should definitely visit eatery ‘Grilled Cheese Spot’ in Santa Ana, California. The eatery only serves sandwiches with grilled/ melted cheese. Ranging from Spanish Manchego cheese to Gouda cheese. You can make the sandwich the way you like. With the build-your-own-menu you first choose a type of bread, then a cheese, two types of toppings and optionally a sauce. You can also order a soup, potato chips and onion rings as side dish.

Collaboration Hotel Mitland and Nimeto

13-12-2013

Hotel Mitland and Nimeto, a creative commercial intermediate vocational college, have a long collaboration history in Utrecht. Every year the Nimeto students decorate the hotel, restaurant and the bowling alley in Christmas atmospheres. Mister Wim Plijnaar is closely involved in the decoration, he is one of the four brothers that run the hotel. The example was suggested after a Tweet we sent about collaboration possibilities for hotels and garden centers for Christmas decoration.

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