Crowd funded beer from 1463
17-9-2012
The Voor en door Goor foundation will herintroduce an ancient special beer brew from 1463. The project will be financed by crowd funding. The aim is to build a brewery in Goor, that will function as a tourist magnet.
QR-code label for shy beer drinkers
14-9-2012
In Harry’s Bar (Singapore) it’s easy for shy customers to connect with other people. They can do this through a QR-code label on the beer bottle. The beer sales doubled because of the stunt. See the video.
Meatballs restaurant in Amsterdam
14-9-2012
Meatballs opened last week in Amsterdam. It’s the first meatball shop in the Netherlands. Meatball restaurants in Belgium and in the USA are a huge success.
Urban farming at Hoog Catharijne
14-9-2012
Corio and Biet & Boon are working together to develop a pop-up roof garden project on shopping mall Hoog Catharijne in Utrecht. The harvest goes to local restaurants, offices and volunteers. Earlier this year the largest roof garden opened in Amsterdam.
Academy during Amsterdam Bar Week
14-9-2012
With the Academy Program there is a special focus on bar personnel during the Amsterdam Bar Week this year. At the Double Tree by Hilton Skylounge are various seminars and taste sessions about bitters (John Fee), cognac (Mark Ridgwell) and world class cocktail makers.
Consumers create own discount stickers
14-9-2012
With home made 2% discount stickers the ‘Youth Food Movement’ protests Albert Heijn’s decision to pay 2% less to their suppliers. This guerrilla action focuses the attention to the power of consumers to stand up for farmers.
Subway starts TV series
13-9-2012
Sandwich chain Subway is starting their own comical American TV series. The series, called ‘4 to 9ers’ is all about the daily events of some part-timers and takes place in a restaurant in a shopping mall. The series are specially developed for Subway and consist of 6 shows for now. The creator of the series is also known from the series ‘Two and a half men’.
Glow in the dark cotton candy
13-9-2012
Serving a cotton candy in a restaurant is a nice idea, but make it special by serving this on a glow in the dark stick. Also nice to serve in a club or on a party.
Restaurant She, specially for women
13-9-2012
Desperate Housewife Eva Longoria will open a new ‘women-only’ restaurant in Las Vegas, named She. Rain curtains and a catwalk will be the eye catchers of the restaurant. The restaurant will open its doors at a new years party.
Sauna day for breast cancer patients
12-9-2012
Newly opened wellness center ‘Sauna Swoll’ initiated the first wellness day for breast cancer patients together with after care center ‘Intermezzo’. Breast cancer often leads to breast amputation and can be a reason for patients to avoid wellness centers. The wellness center is open on 23rd of September from 11.00 to 21.00 o’clock.
The annual iG Nobel Prizes
12-9-2012
Harvard University presents the annual iG Nobel Prizes on the 20th of September. The prizes are for respectable researchers that ‘make people laugh and then think’. The first satellite event in the Netherlands is in the ‘Stadsgehoorzaal’, Leiden. The award show is live broadcasted. Before the show various Dutch researchers and scientists explain their funny or crazy research to the audience. The Hotel Leiden, Ibis Leiden Centre and Holiday Inn offer special package deals for this event.
Original invitation Food4You Festival
11-9-2012
The third edition of the Food4You Festival takes place from 3 until the 8th of October, organized in cooperation with institutions like Wageningen University, Hospital Gelderse Vallei and Rijn Ijssel professional school Wageningen. This knowledge festival is all about healthy and good food, with salt as main theme. This years invitation is totally in theme.
Most beautiful hotel swimming pools of the world
11-9-2012
Hotel swimming pools to be dreaming of. Planning to visit Miami, Hong Kong, Hawaii, Singapore of Phuket? Than are these hotels worth considering. Watch all the recommendations here.
DIY table lamps
11-9-2012
Create your own table decoration with a couple of wine glasses, small lampshades and tea lights. Simple, but it creates a nice mood.
Scratch your can of Palm beer
10-9-2012
Beer brand Palm is challenging the Netherlands to show some creativity on a beer can. Scratch a can of Palm beer and send your design through Facebook. Palm will pick out the best design, which will be in store from next year. The winner wins a trip to London for 2 persons as well. Dutch tattoo-artist Henk Schiffmacher opened the contest by tattooing a beer can. Company SSSS & Orchestra developed this marketing campaign. Sending your design is still possible until the end of September.
Open High Street local delivery website
10-9-2012
Unilever is testing with a home delivery service for local groceries in Hereford. The ‘Open High Street’ website is mainly focused on food & drinks, but delivers products from a neighboring post office as well. The shops can join for 10 pence per delivery, customers pay 5 pound per order.
Can of milk
10-9-2012
A nice gimmick on the breakfast or lunchtable, to serve your milk in style.
BiteMe StreetDinner
7-9-2012
More than fifteen home cooks joined forces to prepare a neighborhood dinner and take it to the Erasmuspark in Amsterdam on the 9th of September. 200 neighbors can experience each others kitchens from 14.00 to 18.00 o’clock.
iGuestbook
7-9-2012
iGuestbook is a screen and camera device that is used at weddings and other events to record short 60 second videos of your guests.
Tasty ice cream posters
7-9-2012
These brilliant posters are designed by Renata El Dib and look like ice cream cones because of the double sided print.
Meatballshop in Belgium, Balls & glory
6-9-2012
Tv-Chef Wim Ballieu wants to start a chain of meatballshop. He started a pop-up store in Gent at the Sint-Jacobsnieuwstraat in April. The balls – made from the meat from the butcher shop of his father – are filled with creative fillings such as chervil and pancetta, foie gras and even crab. You can eat in the shop and take-out the balls, they are served with ‘stoemp’ (mashed potatoes) or a salad. The balls are very popular; the pop-up setting is changed to a permanent settlement. Furthermore, a branch in Bruges will be opened and a pop-up version will open in Antwerp. We already wrote about The Meatball Shop (NY) and Monday, meatball day at restaurant ‘De Open Keuken’ in Hilversum.
A fully vegetarian McDonald’s
6-9-2012
Next to the Golden Temple in Amritsar in India, a fully vegetarian McDonald’s restaurant will be opened. In the vicinity of this temple, people are not allowed to eat meat.
Bottle carrier
6-9-2012
With the Bottle Bouquet carrying system, you only need one hand to carry a bottle of wine and 6 glasses. Easy solution for the beach or terrace.
Discount for using the sustainable Tiffin container
5-9-2012
about the project.The fastfood industry produces a lot of waste – all containers associated with “takeout” or “TO GO” items must be re-thought. The Tiffin Project Foundation did this. Buying a Tiffin Project Container at $ 25 means you’re reducing the Take-out waste, support local agriculture (4$ of each container is used to generate money to pay back the price difference between locally grown and mass production to the restaurant owner) and get a discount at your foodorder! Read more at their website The Tiffin Project. Who is going to start this in The Netherlands?
Noorderparkbar made of second-hand materials
5-9-2012
The Noorderparkbar in Amsterdam, opened in April 2012, is financed by crowd-funding. Designers Bureau SLA and Overtreders W decided to save expenses by using 100% second-hand materials. An ancient Japanese technique, shou sugi ban, was used to produce a cost-effective, low-maintenance exterior cladding of charred wood. More pictures on The Pop-Up City.