Beach pavilion Beach Inn in IJmuiden now serves croquettes of geese from Schiphol. Because of the safety around the airport, geese are killed. Before, nothing was done with these dead geese so far. Rob Hagenouw, an artist from Amsterdam, came with the idea to use these geese in a variant of the traditional croquet. The American crayfish and the muskrat are the next animals in Hagenouws the crosshairs.
The Play Festival in Amsterdam is getting ready to PLAY! It is a nice way of (free) publicity by hanging chalk behind a bicycle. Did you spot the stripes already?
De digital version of the game Scrabble, named Wordfeud, is a real hype. The game offers users the opportunity to battle online against another player, with the possibility to chat. Hotel Casa 400 sees this as an opportunity to organize ‘Wordfeud the Battle’ on Thursday 17 November. Guests can register through the Facebook page of the hotel: facebook.com/hotelcasa400amsterdam
YES WE CANTEEN is a new catering concept for universities in Holland. Instead of one caterer, YES WE CANTEEN entails different stands, from soup to salad, from Dutch chocolate sprinkles to Surinamese sandwiches. YES WE CANTEEN stands for a tasty, cheap and varied offer. In the week of 14 to 18 November, YES WE CANTEEN organizes a trial week at the University of Amsterdam.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Hotel the Roode Leeuw (Amsterdam) there was a photographer next to the entrance in the weekend of the 15th and 16th of October. Everyone who passed by was asked for a photo in ‘traditional Dutch clothing’. The photos are placed on Facebook, two people can win a night in a double room at the hotel or a dinner for 2 persons in the hotel restaurant after tagging themselves in the photo.
Last Friday cafe-restaurant ‘In de Olie’ opened her doors officially in Amsterdam. The cafe offers a menu of finger food and tapas, such as Spanish and Italian sausages, manchego cheese and marinated pulpo. The dinner menu consists of a wide range of Mediterranean dishes, like lamb tajine and fish dishes, served with authentic vegetable side-dishes. Also, the restaurant offers several Spanish, Italian and Greek oils, which you can take home bottled. Every Thursday and Friday between 17.00 and 19.00 hrs you can visit ‘In de Olie’ for a ‘Aperitivo’, to enjoy a small bite and drink, whilst enjoying a DJ. Each Sunday afternoon ‘Tapas & Tunes’ takes place; a podium with changing live performances.
Interested in wild mushrooms? Expert Maurice van der Molen takes a group to the Gaasperplas (Amsterdam) and explanes how to recognize edible mushrooms and how to harvest them. It’s not possible to subscibe anymore, there are new workshops in November.
This week, Japanese restaurant Ichi-e (which means a meeting or rendez-vous) opened its doors officially at the Arena Boulevard in Amsterdam. The three-story building features a sushibar and take-away on the ground floor. The first floor features the Robota Grill restaurant, where guests can enjoy shared-dining grilled meals. On the top floor, the restaurant offers the Densha Lounge (which means ‘train’ in Japanese) where guests can order bite-size snacks. This lounge is as well suitable for meetings or other private (company) parties. Besides, Ichi-e offers as well sake-tastings where guests can taste different kinds of sake.
The problem of finding a babysitter often withholds parents to go to the theater. The Theater Bellevue in Amsterdam came with a solution for this group. Parents can visit a show while a babysitter from Babysitter Central Kriterion looks after the young one(s). The service cost 7 euro per hour and is only for inhabitants of Amsterdam, an extra fee is charged for houses outside of the city ring, at IJburg and in Amsterdam-Noord.
MobiCcino opened his first CoffeeQube (an espresso bar) in an officebuilding of a big Dutch company in Amsterdam. We, of Horecatrends, are jealous, imagining having a barista in the canteen! At 6 square meter, espresso made by the Mirage machine and a barista. MobiCcino is working on the CoffeeQube XL and XXL. Although we like the CoffeeQube we prefer the MobiCcino (smal red car), it’s such a great eyecatcher!
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