Trends we spotted | Week 24
20-6-2022
At horecatrends.com we spot many national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write about, the other trends we use in our weekly column ‘Trends we spotted this week’.
With this week links to articles about the Michelin stars in South Florida, with COTE Miami amongst them. And in Russia opened the old McDonald’s stores under the name Vkusno & tochka’.
DoubleTree by Hilton Amsterdam Central Station offers employees a VanMoof e-bike for one euro a day. And Swingers, the crazy golf club in London, Washington and New York, has reinvented mini golf for an adult audience by adding gourmet street food, cocktails and a party atmosphere.
Recently the 50 Top Pizza list in the USA was published, with nine restaurants from New York! We congratulate the winner: New York’s Una Pizza Napoletana. And vending machines of Subway are hitting the market.
An official ‘Golden Girls’ Kitchen pop-up is coming to Los Angeles this summer and TiNDLE, the plant-based chicken brand, is now available at all ‘Veggie Grill’ restaurants in the USA.
Panera helps guests stay charged for the longest day of the year with the limited edition ‘Charged Up Cup’, that will charge your phone while you simultaneously enjoy an energy boost from Panera’s new Charged Lemonades.
Shaffy Restobar in Amsterdam welcomes a new chef de cuisine: Koji Miyahira. He is adding an Asian twist to the menu. And in the ‘Learn to Taste’ series by Bird Brewery this month the difference between their Ekster and Ekstera beers.
Free Heri Heri For All during Keti Koti on July 1
20-6-2022
This July 1st, ‘Free Heri Heri For All’ will take place. Free Heri Heri For All was developed by KIP Republic in memory of the history of slavery and to connect history with the present. The first edition took place in 2020 with 4,000 free dishes that were distributed across all Amsterdam city districts, the event has since grown into a nationwide celebration with more than 20,000 Heri Heri dishes that will be distributed in eight provinces this year. Free Heri Heri unites society in remembrance of the history of slavery.
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Mission Masala launches its own ‘Firewater’ rum and ‘Uma’ beer
17-6-2022
The hip Indian restaurant Mission Masala in Antwerp and Ghent is launching their own rum: Firewater. A rum full of character made with the finest Caribbean rum, blended and perfected in Belgium. This new rum is launched in two flavours: House Blend, a dark rum blend, and Pineapple. Firewater can be found at all Mission Masala restaurants, specialist retailers and at the webshop. For true boozelovers, they also released their own beer called ‘Uma’.
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New pop-up city terrace ‘de Prairie’ in Eindhoven
17-6-2022
After two sold-out editions in 2020 and 2021 with city oasis ‘de Zomertuin’, a new event returns to Eindhoven this year. City terrace ‘de Prairie’ will take place from Wednesday, 15 June to 28 August at De Caai. At the Prairie, you can play among the hay bales and farm animals, eat tasty and healthy food, barbecue or have a drink, and above all, be inspired by the pure outdoor life.
Pop-up restaurant SterkWater introduces visitors to Fort Giessen in a culinary way
17-6-2022
In July, you will have the opportunity to discover the Dutch Fort Giessen in a culinary way. From 7 to 31 July, travelling pop-up restaurant SterkWater, a catering experience that brings the hidden stories of the Dutch Waterline to life, will take place here. At Fort Giessen, visitors will be taken on a culinary evening full of stories, delicious food and music. With a menu inspired by the fortress, SterkWater lets you experience Dutch history in a very special way.
Guests are offered a full dinner including drinks and an evening of music and experience. All information and tickets can be found on the website.
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Pika Fest | New hot sauce festival on June 25
17-6-2022
Amsterdam has the first edition of Pika Fest on June 25th! A new free, sustainable and community driven hot sauce event featuring local hot sauce producers. Pika Fest welcomes heat seekers from Amsterdam and around the world to celebrate the ‘pikante’ way of life all together with Pika Fest. Enjoying hot sauce, snacks, music and drinks.
How about BBQ Bowls this summer? | Limited release by Sonny’s BBQ
14-6-2022
Sonny’s BBQ, an industry leading BBQ restaurant in the USA, recently announced the launch of their new BBQ Bowls, showcasing the brand’s innovation, value, and culinary expertise. For a limited time, guests will have the ability to build their own BBQ Bowl or choose from three specially crafted Pitmaster Select Bowls: Classic BBQ, Kickin’ Chicken, and Smokin’ Brisket. BBQ Bowls will be available at all Sonny’s locations as from June 13.
Poké Bowls are very popular in the Netherlands and even wok food is served in bowls nowadays. Even all kinds of breakfast bowls, like for example a smoothie bowl or an acai bowls. Would you like to try a bowl with Sonny’s BBQ dirty rice or mac and cheese, vegetables and meat? Or serve a BBQ Bowl at one of your barbecues?
Restaurant Noor (*) in Groningen gives students 50% discount
14-6-2022
Restaurant Noor in the city Groningen in the north of the Netherlands has recently been awarded with a Michelin star and is giving students a 50% discount on their entire bill this fall. Owners Marleen and Jeroen Brouwer want to make dining in a top restaurant more accessible to students and thus invest in potential guests of the future. The student offer runs from September through December 2022 and is valid every second Tuesday of the month.
#GoLocal | Artisanal spirits from the Netherlands
14-6-2022
In recent years, we have spotted a lot of new artisanal spirits in the Netherlands. We have written about the Jongens van Oud West (the Boys of Oud West) who produce Orancello, orange-based Limoncello, and about Voerman Vieux, whose vieux is served straight up with ice cubes or used in cocktails. And about Pink Willem, the first Dutch rosé vermouth based on rhubarb, raspberry and matching botanicals and about the canned cocktails by Amsterdam-based brand Kever Jenever. We also wrote about the sustainable limited edition Hemelwater jenever by Hooghoudt: the distillery from Groningen succeeded in producing jenever from rainwater in 2021.
Below a list of more artisanal drinks!
Trends we spotted | Week 23
10-6-2022
At horecatrends.com we spot many national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write about, the other trends we use in our weekly column ‘Trends we spotted this week’.
With this week links to articles about amongst others ‘tree free paper’, notebooks made from upcycled stone waste. Is ‘Paper / On The Rocks’ interesting as stationary for those hotels who strive to be as sustainable as possible?
Audi USA teams up with three-Michelin-star Restaurant Noma and global nonprofit MAD to spark conversations around sustainability. And the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design opens in Oslo on 11 June, 2022.
You can play ‘feather bowling’ at Randolph Beer bar in Brooklyn. We never heard of ‘Feather Bowling’, or ‘Trabollen’ as they call it in Belgium, did you? Culinary cruise during the hundredth edition of the Dutch sailing event ‘Kaagweek’.
We love the simple idea behind the Pride Wopper of Burger King in Austria (that features a same-side bun for “equal love and equal rights”) but the campaign gets a lot of reactions. The Colombian brewery Dos Tercos prints promises by presidential candidates on beer cans. To remind them of it!
The Apollo Hotels successfully transformed into Leonardo Hotels and their new website is online as well. And TENZING Natural Energy is now also available in the Netherlands, it’s a completely plant-based, low-calorie energy drink with a positive impact on the planet.
A Grilled BBQ TiNDLE Chick'n Sandwich at Veggie Grill
COTE Miami has got its first Michelin star
DoubleTree by Hilton Amsterdam X VanMoof
Shaffy Restobar in Amsterdam
The 'Charged Up Cup' by Panera
 in Groningen gives students 50% discount)
