The Harmony of the Seas, the largest cruise ship of the world, has a Bionic Bar for their guests. Instead of a bartender throwing around bottles, glasses and ice you will find a robot arm preparing the cocktails for the guests. MS Harmony of the Seas is an Oasis-class cruise ship from Royal Caribbean International. The ship and its guests visited Rotterdam today, May 24th. read more
The smallest, most affordable and accessible vacuum former in the world. Mayku launches the FormBox with a mission to “Do for making, what the Mac did for home computing”. For the first time in history anyone can become a maker and create lines of professional grade products without going to a factory. read more
Visitors of ‘De Foodhallen’ are able to get their food and drinks at pop-up foodstands on the 25th till the 29th of May. Everyday there will be a different famous Dutch foodblogger presenting their culinary food to visitors. The bloggers are taking over! read more
Jonnie Boer decided to move his restaurant De Librije from the former monastery in Zwolle to an indoor courtyard and was sure to make the kitchen the center of the restaurant, made by Dekton by Cosentino. read more
A music festival with a star level food line-up. This summer Japies Hof introduces besides numerous of musicians topchefs as Richard van Oostenbrugge, Pascal Jalhay and Syrco Bakker. read more
At the redaction of 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 sneakair who made a shoe which can help you find your way, getting high in Amsterdam with cannabis chocolates and a DIY kit to make your own wine! Perfect for the winelovers! If you like to read the whole article, click the title. Enjoy reading! read more
On the 28th and 29th of May the Culitruck festival will take place in Hulst, The Netherlands. Restaurant ‘t Vlasbloemeken (1 Michelinstar) will be presenting and serving a home-made lobsterburger: the Mc Lobster. We asked chef Eric van Bochove why he wanted to participate in the festival and what the guests can expect from the Mc Lobster. read more
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Orlando in Barcelona for FlytographerLast April we wrote about the ‘photo ambassador’ of the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea. Recently we also read that 35 Fairmont Hotels & Resorts started cooperating with photographers, united in Flytographer.com. This app connects travellers with professional photographers in over 160 cities worldwide. Consumers who are visually oriented are constantly seeing high-end lifestyle photo’s on social media, the result is that they also want the same type and quality photo’s. Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and the Four Seasons Resort at Maui are accommodating their guests to achieve this. read more
Last week the Tangla hotel opened in Brussels, part of the Tangla Hotels & Resorts, HNA Group. The introductory video from the Tangla hotel explains what the HNA Group means with Chinese hospitality. read more
A lot is happening in the world of craft beers. At this moment we have more breweries in the Netherlands than Belgium and every bar has a variety of craft beers on the menu. One of the new trends is to age beers, something which is already done by brewers or pub owners in the past. Thanks to the Bourgondische Bierkelder (the Burgundian Beer Cellar) this process will be available for the public as well. read more
Yes, you read that right. Burger King opened a private spa in one of the locations in Helsinki. Would you go to a spa in a Burger King? The red-blue sauna does feature a TV though and Burger King towels. And it’s possible to order a Whopper and eat it in the spa.
The Scottisch craft-beer brewery BrewDog is set to move forward with its plans to open a craft beer-themed hotel. They will build the BrewDog hotel in the neighbourhood of their brewery, with a ‘PUNK IPA’ tap in the hotel rooms. A true BrewDog experience. Through a crowdfunding campaign which ended last week they managed to raise 19 million pounds. The money is going to be used to build the new hotel and a new brewery. They will also invest in more pubs.
Twitter @vinniesbrooklynThis has to be a paradise for the real pizza lovers in New York. You are now able to order ‘the pizza box pizza’ at Vinnie’s Pizzeria in Brooklyn. Instead of getting your pizza in a regular box, you will now get your pizza in an edible pizza box. Just think ‘out of the pizza box’! 😉
At the redaction of 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 an artisan tortilla maker, the New York Times starts selling ingredients for recipes of their cooking website, and a link to an edible flowers guide! By the way did you know that you could eat banana peels? We found an article with recipes and will most certainly try one of those. If you like to read the whole article, click the title. Enjoy reading! read more
Toren Overhoeks was the former Shell Office and is currently being transformed into a vertical city. After 40 years of ‘isolation’, A’DAM Tower is going to let the general public enjoy this unique place in Amsterdam. A’DAM Lookout will be situated in the crown of the A’DAM tower. This will be an iconic observation platform which is missing now in Amsterdam. read more
We couldn’t find an immersive Christmas Light Maze in Europe yet, howevere correct us if we are wrong. But we love the idea, another fun 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
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This particular cookbook helps you to improve your cutting skills, even before you start cooking. To open the book and see the recipes your have to cut carefully along a thin line. This cookbook was originally designed as a learning tool for a cooking class.
A special art object has been commissioned as the centerpiece installation for the City of London Festival this year. The ‘Mobile Orchard’ is a tree that consists of multiple layers of wood and the roots and branches offer sitting space and climbing adventure. The branches contain LED lighting that creates a cozy atmosphere in the evening. The tree holds 500 real apples, which visitors are encouraged to pluck. The shape of the tree provides shadow and is a great hang-out for visitors of the festival. Maybe it is interesting to place an art object like this in a city in the Netherlands to offer a hang-out for visitors.
KLM and Air France started offering on board Wi-Fi during a flight. KLM and Air France will run a pilot on board of two Boeing 777-300 aircrafts for one year. Thanks to the Wi-Fi service all passengers can use the internet through their smartphone, laptop or tablet to communicate with the outside world during the flight. Beside this, passengers can use a wide range of free services such as information about their destination and the airline or the latest news. Once the airplane is at a height of 6 km, the Wi-Fi is available. Passengers need to pay a fee of € 10.95 per hour or € 19.95 for the entire flight.
The Korean discount chain E-mart has launched a campaign which they want to attract more customers. E-mart developed a “flying shop” in the form of a truck balloon. The balloon flies around different locations, to reach customers not living near an E-mart location. People can connect to the balloon’s Wi-Fi signal and can directly download coupons with discount or purchase products via the mobile app. Through the action the sales in stores and the mobile sales increased.
Coca Cola shows in a special way that the diet coke contains no sugars nor calories. This vending machine is elegant and skinny and can easily be placed.
As a solution for the real estate crisis in Manhattan, the Copenhagen-based architects of PINKCLOUD have designed the Midtown Pop-Up Hotel. The PINKCLOUD Midtown Pop-Up Hotel is designed in such a way that it can easily transform an empty office space into a hotel. The clients can order different modules, varying from a hang-out for backpackers to luxury suites. This enables clients to create any hotel they want. The modules can easily be transported by truck and can easily be traced by the RFID tag.
‘Life is too short to not try everything that’s out in the world..’ Kat and David are both travelers and the founders of ‘Try the world’. The company wants to offer boxes with products from all over the world. The products offered are difficult to find in the United States and are composed by Try The World’s team of travelers as well as local experts. Because the founders have a personal connection with Paris, the first ‘Try the World’ box contains products from the suppliers around France. Hopefully the Americans will quickly discover the delicious Dutch treacle-waffle, licorice candy, croquettes and cheese.
Breakfast, lunch or drinking cocktails in the sky.. Nowadays it’s all possible. Approximately 40 sky high franchise around the world serve dinners at a height of 180 foot. A table for 22 people is lifted by a crane to a height of 180 foot with three staff in the middle (chef, waiter, server) who provide dinner. A second crane with a platform (or more if desired) at the same height as the table is possible, for entertainment such as music or presentations. This brings dinner to a totally different level. Dinner in the sky started as a publicity stunt six years ago, and has become a huge success. The company also offers marriage, lounge and showbiz in the sky.
The Mark Hotel in New York recently agreed to an exclusive partnership with fashion store Bergdorf Goodman that will allow its guests to shop at any fashion store at any time. The hotel guests will have 24/7 access to a personal shopper in the fashion store. A hospitable gesture.. that is for sure!
There are a lot of different chips flavors, with or without ridges. This glass potato chips is different than the others, it has the crunch and flavor of a potato chip but it is transparent. You can create your own colour and flavor and make it at home. The original recipe was created Hamid Salimian, the chef at Diva at the Met. Check out the recipe of the transparent chips.
After the great success of the pop-up restaurants in Amsterdam last January, star chef Niven Kunz will transform ‘People’s Place’, the canteen of the European headquarter of Tommy Hilfiger into a temporary restaurant. From Sunday June 30th till Thursday July 4th, Niven serves 10 signature dishes. A special lunch for parents with children is organized on Sunday to let families experience and taste vegetable dishes. Together with a matching slow-juice arrangement.
The ‘Farm festival’ (end of the Future of Food Festival) takes place on Sunday May 26th at farm ‘t Schop. The festival is dedicated to food and the future of our food. The organic farm ‘t Schop presents their farm to people who are curious to their beef, the vegetable garden, the farm shop and more. The program includes a market, mini-lectures, cooking workshops for children, a competition, live music and more.
Eat every day at someone else’s place… Early this year Simon started his social experiment where he will eat every day at different places for one year. In return, he will paint a wall, cleans a house or he will bring something to eat or drink. Through his social experiment he discovers new tastes, meets new people and gets to know new places. Would you also like to cook for Simon? You can invite him at his Facebook page.
Domino’s Brazil has launched a great campaign with a local video stores: bake a pizza in a DVD player. When you place the DVD into the player, it looks like a average movie disk. When the temperature of the disk increases throughout the movie, the ink will be activated. After the movie, when the disk is ejected, the DVD is transformed into a mini pizza with pizza aroma, fresh baked into you player. The pizza has a message that encourages fans to pare the next movie with a Domino’s pizza.
We see more and more robots behind the bar preparing drinks. This robot Makr Shakr mixes and serves drinks and is controlled by an app. The robot can make drinks with about two dozen spirits and liqueurs, more than a hundred non-alcoholic mixers and can add ingredients such as mint, lemon slices, salt and pepper. Earlier we saw the robot Bartendro making cocktails within ten seconds.
Enjoying fries while eating healthy vegetables. The Dutch supermarket PLUS is the first who sells ‘Vegetable fries’. Vegetable fries looks like potato fries but are made of corn, carrots and white beans with herbs and spices. Vegetable fries contain less carbohydrates, calories and no added sugars or artificial substances. With one portion of fries children get more than 50% of their daily recommended amount of fiber.
Grapedistrict introduced a new festive nonalcoholic drink. The new PasDuTout is an alcohol-free bubble from the Provence and made of Airen, Riesling and Rivaner grapes. During the winemaking process, the most of the alcohol vaporizes. At the end the drink contains 0.2% alcohol. The PasDuTout is a fresh and fruity wine with a strong bubble and can be served as an aperitif or as summer drink. The PasDuTout is available in restaurants, bars and beach clubs.
The crispy sugary crust of a donut with the layers of a croissant… Dominque Ansel has created something new, namely a croissant + donut = cronut ™. The cronut ™ is a with cream-filled croissant-donut with glaze. Already a big hit in America!
With the Statechi Touch USB LED lamp you can easily transform an empty bottle into a lamp. Use empty bottles as a light, fun and original for restaurants and bars!
The China Environmental Protection Foundation launched the ‘Green Pedestrian Crossing’ campaign to encourage people to walk instead of using the car. The organization placed a large white canvass with an illustration of a leafless tree on a busy crosswalk. Sponges with environmentally friendly and washable green paint were placed on either side of the street. Every time when someone crossed the street, green footprints became the leaves of the bare tree. As more people crossed, more leaves were created.
The Italian ‘Pizzafestijn’ Catering serves a pizza-gourmet besides Italian snacks and a live cooking buffet with pizza appetizers. With the pizza-gourmet guests can cover small fresh pizza bases with pizza sauce and ingredients of choice. These mini pizzas can be baked in a small pizza oven. A buffet of salad and oven baked Italian bread with herb butter is served with the pizza-gourmet. ‘Pizzafestijn’ also provides the ‘live cooking’ concept on events, where they bake fresh pizza appetizers.
Earlier this month, Gault & Millau Benelux published the ‘Green Gault & Millau’ for the first time. The guide highlights restaurants in the Benelux that give vegetables a preference on their menu. The book contains usefull addresses, tips about vegetables and interviews with health experts. Gault & Millau shows that cooking with vegetables is healthy and can be very delicious by offering vegetables recipes from chefs like Jonnie Boer, Niven Kunz and Gert Mangeleer.
Rhubarb is a plant from the knotweed family. These red stems have been sought for more than 5000 years for its medicinal purposes or processed into compote and used for desserts. Mister Kitchen and distillery Herman Jansen have captured the unique taste and fluorescent color in a bottle: ‘Rabarcello’. The sour, sweet and bitter taste are in perfect composition and without any additives a subtle 18% alcohol. Rabarcello can be served pure with some ice next to a fitting course, but also for cocktails.
In response to our previous article about ‘Foodem‘ appears that we also have an online marketplace for suppliers and byers in the Netherlands, namely ‘Vers 24/7’. ‘Vers 24/7’ is part of Deli XL and started in September 2012. It’s an online platform for specialists and the hospitality sector, without the intervention of wholesale. Every fresh specialist has its own profile where he can determine his assortment and price range. ‘Vers 24/7’ transports the products of the specialist to the hospitality sector. At the moment the platform consist of more than 75 specialists including meat, fish, cheese but also Dutch wines. With this platform, regional products become more accessible for the hospitality sector.
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