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Organic restaurant Amass shows the way in waste reduction

22-9-2016

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Organic restaurant Amass in Copenhagen received the Gold Organic Certification by the Danish Ministry of the Environment. The gold guarantees that 90%-100% of all food and beverage served at this restaurant is certified organic. The Gold Organic Certification is part of the Danish Organic Action Plan 2020. Restaurant Amass is one of only two fine dining restaurants to achieve this designation in Denmark. They even teach farm-to-table to kids with their Amass Green Kids Program. Check out their Instagram account for great pictures of the food they serve, the products they use and their gardens.

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First 3D printed building in Europe

14-9-2016

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The first 3D printed building of Europe will be printed next year at ‘De Slaapfabriek’ in Teuge. The idea is designed during the Dutch Construction Hackathon by Bouwend en Innovatief Nederland. The goal is to create a special meeting venue, one that ‘matters’.

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Trends we spotted this week – week 36

9-9-2016

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At Horecatrends we spot a lot of national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write articles about, the smaller trends we use in our column ‘Trends we spotted this week’. This week among others a small gesture at Van der Valk Harderwijk, stay the night at a bee-hotel, meatless hamburgers and Ikea launches a DIY pop-up restaurant in London.

If you like to read the whole article, click the title. Enjoy reading!

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Too Good To Go…

16-8-2016

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The Too Good To Go app lets you eat food which restaurants normally throw in the bin at the end of the service. Take away from your favourite restaurants for next to nothing: that’s the idea behind this new app and meanwhile preventing food waste!

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KYTCHO sets a new standard for chef’s knife’s

30-6-2016

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The KYTCHO Power Blade is a new chef’s knife made from ultra-durable ULTRA NANO Circonia material. The particles of the new material are so small that they help to create the sharpest and most durable knife ever made in mass production.

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Healthy fastfood concept Grown extremely populair

28-6-2016

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Health and fastfood are two words that rarely appears together. NBA player Ray Allen felt like this needed to change, and opened his own healthy fast-food business. Grown, which is the name of the restaurant, can be found in Miami and looks good.

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Plates made of leafs

27-6-2016

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Leaf Republic has recently published their well-kept secret of sustainable tableware made out of leaves.

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FoodShare program by Starbucks

21-4-2016

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In March Starbucks announced to donate ready-to-eat meals to food banks from its 7.600 company-operated stores in America through their new FoodShare program. Initially, this will be accomplished through an existing collaboration with Food Donation Connection and a new partnership with Feeding America.

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UrbanFarmers in The Hague, vegetables and fish without fear of heights

5-4-2016

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It will be the largest urban rooftop farm in Europe. The unique ‘farm’ is at 40 meters altitude in The Hague and will annually produce 50 tons of local, rooftop vegetables and 20 tons of fresh (urban) fish. Our colleague Bram Kosterink already got a tour of the impressive project.

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DecoDive for the festival market

5-4-2016

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Expensive materials are used to build decoration for festivals, to subsequently have to break it down again after the event and sometimes it will even be thrown away. DecoDive wants to change that and become the eBay for festival decorations. Soon everybody will be able to rent decoration at the website of DecoDive.

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