At brewery the Prael it’s possible to buy beer made of rain water. The bitter blond beer, comparable to an IPA, is brewed in collaboration with the beer brewery Hemelswater (to be translated as water from heaven). A huge success, Code Blond even got attention outside the Netherlands. read more
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, articles about several exceptional ice cream flavours, humor around the Brexit with a dating site called LovEUactually, gaming with hyper-reality at Madame Tussauds in NYC and the Dutch ‘Traffic Jam Food Festival’. And KFC Hong Kong debuted finger lickin’ good nail polish!
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For Your Ice Only is a new ice concept. Not just ordinary ice but a new ice sensation! This is fresh, hand-made ice prepared on a so-called anti-grill (an ice plate which freezes till -32 degrees Celcius. The so-called rolled ice cream! read more
Who wouldn’t want to go out for dinner every single day? Unfortunately, that’s not affordable in the Netherlands without having a relatively high income. However there are still some concepts that make it possible to do just that; go out for dinner every day. Restaurant ‘Mon Plat du Jour’ is one of them! read more
Kellogg’s, the company that makes America’s favourite cereals like Frosted Flakes, Rice Krispies, All Bran, Coco Pops and Fruit Loops opened its first ever all-day Cereal Café at Times Square on the 4th of July. read more
An initiative from the United States: TraffickCam. This app enables you to help combat sex trafficking by uploading photos of the hotel rooms you stay in when you travel. TraffickCam asks travellers to take photos of their entire room, the bathroom, the bed and details such as carpeting and furniture. The Police Department can use the data to cross-reference against suspicious images taken by sex traffickers. read more
From food to the furniture, everything at pop-up restaurant Food Ink is made with 3D printers. These printers from the Dutch company ByFlow create dishes out of hummus, chocolate mousse, smashed peas, goat cheese or pizza dough – essentially anything that can take the form of a paste. read more
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, an article about Sushi donuts, the outdoor pop up offices in Amsterdam and liquor made of grape seeds.
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Photocredits: Martijn Roos
Photocredits: Martijn Roos
Photocredits: Martijn Roos
Photocredits: Martijn Roos
Photocredits: Martijn Roos
Photocredits: Martijn Roos
Photocredits: Martijn RoosNadia en Anneloes are with their new concept, VITTORE C. the new ‘Rabo Starter van het Kwartaal’. A completely new concept within The Netherlands, with only carpaccio’s on the menu. read more
Photocredits: Buro JP
Photocredits: Buro JP
Photocredits: Buro JP
Photocredits: Buro JP
Photocredits: Buro JP
Photocredits: Buro JP
Photocredits: Buro JPDutch city Leiden has a new hotspot in the city for the upcoming three months. De Buurt (the neighbourhood) recently opened next to Leiden Central station. A place where art, culture, food and fashion meet. read more
Photocredits: Monika Nguyen
Photocredits: Monika Nguyen
Photocredits: Monika Nguyen
Photocredits: Monika Nguyen
Photocredits: Monika Nguyen
Photocredits: Monika Nguyen
Photocredits: Monika NguyenIf you are in love with cheese, you definitely have to visit the Lingenhel cheese outlet in Vienna. Johannes Lingenhel, opened here his first-ever gastronomical cheese outlet, a combination of a cheese factory, tasting bar and gourmet boutique. read more
The Hague Central Station has a new restaurant concept: Grand Central Food Market. Yesterday, Horecatrends was present at the opening of the fish-, burger- and winebar. Brought together in one single room in the centre of the station hall. read more
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, world’s longest tunnel slide, moringa superfood and a new creation by Sergio Herman.
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The newest coffee grinder is the Voltaire. A portable grinder which can be used both in- as outside your apartment without the beans losing their quality. In fact, the coffee grinder monitors your coffee beans and reorders whenever you need a fresh supply. read more
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. read more
We discussed which products show up the most on social media, in all kind of shapes, flavours and colours, this year. The first product that read more
We have been sharing inspiration on our website since 2007, inspiration that we find in the hospitality industry or by online spotting of what our read more
We have been sharing inspiration on our website since 2007, inspiration that we find in the hospitality industry or by online spotting of what our read more
It sometimes happens that people steal a glass from the bar as a reminder of the night out. Cider-maker Kopparberg has developed a solution for this problem. They protected their new glasses with a security system with ink. When the ‘thief is more than 100 meters away from the bar the ink will ‘explode’. The goal is not to punish people but to dissuade them from stealing the glass.
The ‘Titaan’ (Dutch for ‘Titan’) is a pure experience-location for meetings and private dining. Leon Verraes and het girlfriend Inge Vermeulen are the owners of the ship since March 2010. The ship is newly built in 2001 by Talsma in Franeker and finetuned in 2002 by SRF in Harlingen. It’s built by ING Real Estate as luxe meeting location for real estate developers and business relations. The ship has a capacity of 70-80 people while boarded, on the water it’s possible to sail with 55 guests.
Hotel chain Hilton shows how to prepare their cocktails via the Youtube channel. Bartenders from several Hilton hotels in the Caribbean show the secret behind their famous cocktails. What about the Piña Colada in the video above or the Hawaiian Eye Cocktail of the Hilton Hawaiian Village®? Bring the tropical atmosphere of Hilton to your home with these cocktails!
The Belgian artist Karl Philips has given billboards an extra function with his project ‘The Good, the Bad, the Ugly’. He renovated old trailer billboards into small apartments. Thanks to the ads on the walls of their temporary house the inhabitants earn some money to live in a billboard. The ads also conceal that these billboards are used as apartments. Earlier we’ve spotted billboards used as a bench, a shelter from the rain or a ramp over stairs.
Latte art and latte 3D art is hot! But if you don’t have a professional barista to serve coffee with beautiful art creations? Serve your guests a cup of coffee with these cute 3D marshmallows. These marshmallows are available in the flavors green tea, cocoa and milk tea. They require no fancy latte art skills, because you just put them in a cup of coffee. Can these 3D marshmallows compete with the real 3D latte art?
The perfect wave in your own backyard? Wavegarden brings the personal lagoon to your backyard, front yard or anywhere you’ve got space for a tiny ocean with waves. Wavegarden is the market leader in designing and developing of a wave generation system, the system is built and tested by professional surfers. This system can create the best waves to give people the ultimate surfing experience. It seems pretty cool to surf on the Dutch lakes! So when will they bring this system to the Netherlands?
Last week we published an article about five conceptual dress silhouettes made from organic vegetables and fruit juices exhibited in the lounge bar of the Amsterdam Marriott Hotel. These pictures show the result of these beautiful eat patterns!
Hotel Restaurant Oud London has recently renovated the first 28 of its 88 hotel rooms. The comfort and sustainability were the basic principles by designing the hotel rooms. All rooms have LED lighting and the new furniture is made of recycled teak wood. The rooms have a natural and sustainable look. The rooms have no minibar, but there is a large open cooling at the reception with an assortment of drinks and snacks for ‘to go’.
At the website of ‘The Special Choice’ you can order culinary dishes online, pay and collect them at the restaurant. This concept allows guests to enjoy culinary delights at home or at work. The dishes are healthy and responsible and prepared with fresh products. The dishes are provided with a quality label with the origin of the ingredients. The dishes are presented in a stylish way on plates with napkins and cutlery. As restaurant owner you can choose to donate a part of the sales to a good cause. The Special Choice takes care of order site, the packaging, the payment and the online promotion. Starting in the Netherlands at this moment.
From 6 to 16 July the area around the Gashouder factory will be transformed into the fashion destination of the Amsterdam Fashion Week 2013. After London and Berlin, the prosecco of the Italian brand Scavi & Ray will be served during the Fashion Week. So the Italian class and allure will literally be brought to Amsterdam. This prosecco is originally from Veneto and is known for its fresh and fruity aftertaste. The Scavi & Ray is characterized by the exclusive design of the bottle and its motto ‘A sparkling taste of fashion’. By the way, this fresh prosecco is also great to serve on a terrace in the sun.
From 6 to 16 July the area around the Gashouder factory will be transformed into the fashion destination of the Amsterdam Fashion Week 2013. After London and Berlin, the prosecco of the Italian brand Scavi & Ray will be served during the Fashion Week. So the Italian class and allure will literally be brought to Amsterdam. This prosecco is originally from Veneto and is known for its fresh and fruity aftertaste. The Scavi & Ray is characterized by the exclusive design of the bottle and its motto ‘A sparkling taste of fashion’. By the way, this fresh prosecco is also great to serve on a terrace in the sun.
Grolsch inspired four artists with stories from its 400 years of history. The corporate story gets a second life with these initiatives. DJ Mark Sixma produced a trance track, fashion designer Jacob Kok created a dress, writer Joost Zwagerman wrote a poem and ice sculpturer Peter Meurders created a giant Grolsch bottle. The project was part of the new Grolsch campaign “400 years of character.
The 20th Century Fox organized a pop-up movie night for the screening of a new animated film at a secret location in Paris. The pop-up cinema was located high in the trees. The new animated film takes place in a forest environment. This pop-up location gives the visitor an ultimate experience.
The platform AirBnB where individuals can offer their homes for temporary rental to tourists or expats has now become a huge success. It appears that more branches copy this concept. We’ve spotted ‘Eat With‘, a website where users can offer their ‘kitchen’ as an alternative for the restaurants in the area. CampInMyGarden, a website that offers sleeping places in gardens and outdoor houses, a cheap night and often at central locations. Now the platform ‘Boat Bound’ is launched. Whether you are looking for a fishing boat, a sailboat or a barge, Boat Bound offers private boats anywhere in the United States, at any price. We wonder when we can rent a boat in the canals for Amsterdam at Boat Bound.
Chocolate beer, honey-beer, tobacco beer… We now spotted coffee beer! Anchor coffee, a small coffee company in Japan and brewery Sekinoichi in Japan have developed a unique coffee beer. A drink for the real coffee and beer lover! During the brewing process of the beer they added coffee beans, the bitterness and aroma of coffee gives the beer a deeper flavor. To save costs, existing bottles have been used and are covered with small bean-shaped stickers. The packaging is designed by Nendo. Both villages where the coffee company and brewery are located, were destroyed by the tsunami in 2011. The coffee beer is a charity project to fundraise for disaster relief.
The newly opened Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi, Grand Canal has a camel milk mixologist. The hotel offers different flavours of camel milk milkshakes, like strawberry and mint. The camel milk mixologist suggests guests which camel milk flavours to pair with different dishes to create the ultimate tasting experience. This service is being launched during Ramadan, to offer something special. Camel milk has a high content of protein and additional nutrients and is excellent to consume during the morning meal with Ramadan. Earlier we saw bread and chocolates of camel milk.
A real fashionista and love to eat? Visit the lounge bar ‘Sorel’s Midtown Bar & Lounge’ at the Amsterdam Marriott Hotel on Saturday, July 6th and Sunday, July 7th. The lounge bar is fully dedicated to fashion during the ‘downtown’ program of the Fashion week, where fashion and food are the main ingredients of the lounge bar. Five conceptual dress silhouettes made from organic vegetables and fruit juices will be exhibit in the lounge bar. These dresses, also known as ‘eat patterns’ are made by the ‘Culinaire Werkplaats‘ with the aim to set people thinking about sustainability and the roll of the fashion world. The lounge bar also offers a stylish menu of fresh dishes and snacks.
Earlier we saw QR-codes of lemons and avocados or edible QR-codes made of cookie dough. Restaurant Harney Sushi in San Diego and Oceanside labels its sushi with edible QR-codes printed in edible ink on rice wafers. By scanning the QR-code with a smartphone, the guests will get more information. Including information about the sushi served and the origin of the ingredients. Very useful, because usually when I get sushi served it is always difficult to determine the type of sushi and ingredients ^Laura
Offer your hotel guests the experience of relaxing in a hammock in combination with soaking in hot water with the ‘Vessel’ bathtub. This bathtub is fixed with stainless steel brackets on the wall. The ‘Vessel’ is designed by Splinter Works and available in the colors black, red, blue, yellow, pink, bronze and silver.
New York has many parks, where New Yorkers enjoy some time to relax after the working day and rest on a bench. Aircraft company Virgin Atlantic has surprised the park-goers in a funny way! Virgin Atlantic placed a red bench in the middle of a street in New York to give the people a taste of what they could expect during a flight. Watch the video to see the reactions of the people. Let this inspire you and treat the people who are sitting on a bench in the neighborhood of your restaurant with a snack or a drink. Take some pictures and publish it on your website and Social Media. Earlier we saw that people in a subway in New York were surprised with a 6-course dinner.
Inhabitants of The Hague get the possibility to stay in a hotel in their own city. The first edition of the ‘Hotel night The Hague’ will take place on September 7th and 8th. Inhabitants of the city can stay in the most special hotels for a special rate on 7 and 8 September. With the Hotel Night ticket they can also join the culinary, creative and cultural events organized by the participating hotels. The tickets are also valid for several touristic attractions. The complete program will be announced at the end of July. Earlier this year the Hotel Night was organized in Amsterdam.
Cocktail bar B.Y.O.C. in London asks their guests to bring their own alcohol, while it supplies the mixers. The cocktail bar doesn’t have an alcohol license, so they let guests bring their own drinks. The bartenders have a cocktail trolley with ingredients that go well with the alcohol brought and mixes them together to create their cocktail. The cocktail trolley contains ingredients such as syrups, juices, fruit, spices and soft drinks.
Carrie and Simon from unearthed® attempted to set a world record for the ‘World Longest Tasting Menu’. On Thursday 13th June they ate 193 bite-sized courses, one from every country in the world in 24 hours (that’s 8 courses per hour). Carrie and Simon were joined by colleagues, suppliers and journalists. A team of four chefs spent 130 hours prepping and cooking the 193 dishes. All the money raised is being donated to the foundation ‘Action Against Hunger’. To get an impression of what they ate, check out the instagram feed.
Meatopia, a feast for the real meat lovers, will be held in London this year on September 7th for the 9th time. They promise real fire, locally sourced meat and every piece of meat will come from naturally raised animals. The meat is free of added hormones, anti-biotic and cruelty. The meat will be served nose to tail. They promise the best in beverages, live music and entertainment. Meatopia originated from NY and took place in San Francisco last year. It’s a line-up from great chefs preparing the meat, presented by Whole Foods.
McDonalds has asked illustrator Helen Musselwhite to develop a series of Happy Meal show-boxes to promote reading and the natural world. The show-boxes are very detailed with beautiful prints. We wonder when the Happy Meal boxes will be released.
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