What is happening in your neighborhood?
29-8-2012
Family-friendly restaurant chain Applebee’s plans to bring nightlife to suburbia by reinventing itself as an after-hours entertainment destination, offering half-priced appetizers, drink specials, dance music, girl’s night out and karaoke after 10pm. While most of Applebee’s locations close at 10 p.m., locations in Central Florida already stay open (with strobe lights and all) until 2am under the moniker ‘Club Applebee’s.’
Straws filled with flavorbeads
28-8-2012
Straws filled with flavor beads, to add taste to a glass of milk. Just put one in a glass of milk and sip! Great for school lunches. 4 Packs – 1 each of Chocolate, Vanilla, Cookies & Cream and Strawberry. Nice for a cold glass of milk for kids in a restaurant as well.
Muru, the first pop-down restaurant
28-8-2012
In September 2012, the world’s first pop-down restaurant will open in a unique mining environment in Tytyri, Lohja. The restaurant is located 80 meters below the ground and during the evening you can go as down as 350 meters underground. The journey to the depths of the Earth is made using KONE’s test laboratory lifts. Chosen as restaurant of the year 2012 in Finland, Muru will bring its unique atmosphere, delicious food and excellent staff to Tytyri for two weeks. Down-to-earth food will be on offer in Muru’s signature style, in the spirit of a “mining canteen”.
Jaguar Taste & Race
27-8-2012
The experience of a ride in a Jaguar is one that tickles all senses according to the luxurious brand. By the name of ‘Taste & Race’ the car manufacturer expands this experience. Foodies and race fans have a chance to intensify their Jaguar-experience. The ones blessed with sensitive taste buds and superior driving skills can make it to the 2013 final in Malaysia.
Bubble Coffee and Tea at 8tea5
24-8-2012
Bubble Tea retailer 8tea5 in The Hague has Bubble Coffee on the menu from today on. Entrepreneur and initiator Herdjie Zhou creates the bubble coffee from freshly roasted coffee beans, soy milk and tapioca balls from cassave.
Recipe for raspberry lemon iced tea
22-8-2012
The creator of the Sunshine and Smile blog has created a mouthwatering summer cocktail with raspberries. Have a look at the website for the raspberry lemon iced tea recipe and amazing photography by Kankana.
Dip tea biscuits
20-8-2012
A cup of tea is best enjoyed with a cookie. These tea bag cookies are ideal to dip in your tea. Click here for the recipe.
Breakfast with giraffe
15-8-2012
Giraffe Manor is the only place in the world where you can eat breakfast with giraffe. This iconic historical building from the 1930s is often visited by a herd of eight resident Rothschild giraffe in the mornings and evenings. See here more about this cool place in Nairobi, Kenya.
LYFE organic fast-food
15-8-2012
LYFE Kitchen is an organic fast-food alternative with great ambitions. The founders of LYFE, an acronym for ‘love your food everyday’, are former McDonald’s employees and want to open hundreds of restaurants in the next five years. McDonald’s former chief operating officer Mike Roberts and former chief of communications officer Mike Donahue opened a prototype restaurant on Hamilton Avenue in Palo Alto. They improve the cooking process and the logistics to save every second possible. When customers order they receive a coaster with a RFID tag. By this tag a runner can locate the table with the order. The restaurant offers organic brussel sprouts as alternative for french fries. Watch the video for about the kitchen of LYFE.
Top 10 best Street Food cities
14-8-2012
Members of VirtualTourist.com composedthe Top 10 best Street Food cities. Bangkok (Thailand) can be find on the first place with Soi Rambuttri in the old part of the city. On the second place, we find Singapore, because of the variety in dishes. On the third place we find Penang in Malaysia because of the multicultural kitchen. The Top 10 looks as follows:
1. Bangkok, Thailand
2. Singapore
3. Penang, Malaysia
4. Marrakech, Marocco
5. Palermo, Sicily
6. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
7. Istanbul, Turkey
8. Mexico City, Mexico
9. Brussels, Belgium
10. Beachside Ceviche in Ambergris Caye, Belize