Ice cream salon with characters
6-4-2012
Once upon a Milkshake is an ice cream salon with different characters for every flavour. Inspired by various writers who tell stories about their travels and experiences, they created a character for each product with a short story. The characters include: Agent Red Velvet (cacao with cream cheese), Honey Nougat (premium nougat and honey) and Spooky Mocha (aromatic coffee beans and chocolate).
Restaurant Day
5-4-2012
Restaurant Day is a day where anyone can set up a restaurant, café or bar. It can be anywhere, like at your home, at the office or on a street corner! The next Restaurant Day is planned on the 19th of May.
Martin Creed unveils restaurant at Sketch
4-4-2012
Martin Creed was given a completely open brief to design the Sketch restaurant in London. The only note was that it could function as a restaurant. He used 96 different types of marble and all objects in the restaurant, from cuttlery, tables, chairs to glassware are different. The Master Chef Pierre Gagnaire makes the experience complete by cooking visually dishes, therefore art and food go hand in hand at Sketch.
Frozen beer foam
4-4-2012
The Kirin brewery has lauched Ichiban Shibori’ with frozen beerfoam. The foam is edible like a sorbet and doesn’t make the beer watery.
The Dutch club
3-4-2012
How is the club scene doing in the Netherlands? Watch the movie (in Dutch).
New energy drinks by Red Bull
2-4-2012
Red Bull introduced three new flavours; cranberry, blueberry and lime.
Internet access through Coca-Cola vending machine
30-3-2012
At the Coca-Cola concept store on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, a soda machine has been installed that dispenses free mobile internet access instead of a beverage. The “Happiness Refill,” was created by three Ogilvy offices (Sao Paulo, Rio and Recife). To use it, consumers have to press their phone against the tap to receive data credits for free internet navigation on an exclusive Coca-Cola mobile browser. The browser provides access to Coke FM radio, social networks (Facebook and Twitter) and the weather forecast.
Farm hotel
30-3-2012
Babylonstoren is a Cape Dutch farm and manor house in South Africa with vineyards, orchards and a large garden. Guests are invited to join in and harvest their own products, which can be used in the restaurant or can be cooked in a self-catering kitchen.
Plop up
29-3-2012
No pop-up, but a Plop-Up wine bar, which opens this Sunday. No drivel about wine, but just let owners Cees Honig and Niels Heystek tell you what they think of a specific wine. Curious? Watch the Facebook-page where they reveal the location of this new wine bar.
Create your own tea
29-3-2012
In a few easy steps you can create your own tea at Evans & Watson. Starting with a basic tea (black, green, rooibos, herbal or special) and finishing it by adding herbs, fruit and/or spices. You create that tea suiting your taste. They also give several ‘drink-tips’.