Make house wine in your living room
21-10-2011
Making housewine has just become a little easier and can even be done in your own livingroom nowadays. Designer Sabine Marcelis has scaled down the production of winemaking in an all-in-one homebrew installation. The installation requires a little nurture and care.
Malibu snowflakes in your glass
21-10-2011
Malibu is celebrating the winter holidays by introducing the new Limited Edition Snowflake bottle. The Limited Edition bottle is a winter variant of the Caribbean rum, it contains real coconut flakes that create a snowstorm in your glass. The bottle is available in November, five MEN_at_WORK clothing stores are Malibu-branded to promote it.
Luxury lunch box
20-10-2011
The French company Kaviari’s developed ‘En-K caviar’. This is a chic and trendy aluminium box with 15 grams of caviar and a caviar spoon, available in the colours black, gold, silver, blue, fuchsia and apple green. Buyers can choose either the version ‘Osetra’ or ‘Kristal’ caviar. Easy to take in your purse to enjoy the caviar any moment of the day.
Eat Beeter
20-10-2011
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‘Beeter’ is a new alternative for meat and fish which is 100% organic, full of protein, free of gluten and fat, without added nutrients, and is made of sustainable grown soy. This meat and fish alternative is developed by the Dutch company Ojah. ‘Beeter’ is available as ‘basics’, which can be processed and as ‘prepared’, which is directly consumable. You can find ‘Beeter’ already on the menus of several restaurants in the Netherlands and is available at the Vegetarian Butcher.
Hot Booster
20-10-2011
The Hot Booster is a new soup in an easy take-away self-heating can. The can needs to be pressed on the bottom to start the self-heating process, which takes 3 minutes. The soup is made of all natural ingredients, and is available in three flavours; Oriental chicken, Italian tomato and Golden Mushroom which is a special. There is as well a sweet version available; Cheeky Choco. Enjoy a hot soup any place and anytime you want.
Ron Blaauw turns into pink
20-10-2011
Specially for the Pink Ribbon campaign, two Michelin star chef Ron Blaauw transformed his restaurant into Ron Roze (pink) during this week. One eighth of the total revenue of this week will be donated to the foundation. The campaign of the Pink Ribbon Foundation, which runs from the 18th of October until the 18th of November, fights against breast cancer in the Netherlands. Although the restaurant turns pink for a week, the menu will stay the same.
Bicycle light vending machine
19-10-2011
At the railway station of Leiden (The Netherlands) customers can buy a bicycle light from the fast food vending machines this Thursday. It’s an initiative of the Dutch Bicycle union in partnership with the fastfood chain Smullers. The new campaign is called “Ik Val Op” (I’m noticed) and focuses on the youth of the Netherlands.
Orange paprika ice-cream
19-10-2011
Paprika grower Hermans-Walter and ice cream maker Theo Clevers have taken the challenge to create a new flavour of ice cream for the Dutch market. Together they have created the orange paprika flavoured ice cream. The main reason for creating this flavour of ice cream is to promote the orange paprika throughout the country.
TripShake app
19-10-2011
KLM has developed the TripShake app for the Smartphone, for everybody who has difficulties to decide what the next holaday destination will be. The app for iPhone and Android gives users the ability to explore various destinations. Just by shaking your phone, a destination and a ticket price will pop-up. A fun way to explore a new destination.
Nutri-Pulse e-cooker
18-10-2011
IXL Netherlands BV introduces a new way of cooking with the Nutri-Pulse® e-cooker. This e-cooker uses electric pulses to cook meat, fish, vegetables and fruit within minutes, or even seconds. By using this new way of cooking, all the nutritive value of food, as well as the taste, colour and flavour are preserved. At the same time it creates a reduction in energy and food waste. With the Nutri-Pulse e-cooker, IXL Netherlands BV has won the Food Valley Award of 2011. Watch the movie for an explanation.
24 carat chocolate champagne truffles
18-10-2011
A true chocolate delicacy of The Choclate; a handcrafted champagne truffle, sprinkled with 24 carat gold flakes, presented in a contemporary chic, Swarovski adorned boutique box. It took 2 years to perfect the truffles and to place them on the market. The truffles are made of the most expensive dark chocolate, and are all handcrafted, which makes each truffle a unique one.
Organic energy drink
18-10-2011
Scheckter’s OrganicEnergy is a new energy drink, developed by using natural ingredients. These natural products like the raw green coffee beans, guarana (seeds), ginseng and gingko biloba, gives this drink your body and mind a natural boost of energy.
Restaurant In de Olie opened her doors
17-10-2011
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.
Get well soup from Heinz
17-10-2011
Send your loved ones a “Get well soon” soup from Heinz if they are ill. Instead of a simple card, one can create a personal message on the website that’s printed on a can of soup and sent. This campaign is currently only available for UK facebook fans of Heinz.
Digital bottle message for Burkina Faso
17-10-2011
Spa Reine has started a campaign in cooperation with Unicef. For every bottle that is sold, Spa donates 4 liters of clean drinking water to the children living in Burkina Fas. Consumers can leave a personal message about this campaign on the website Spahelpt.nl and create more awareness to the campaign.
Wine in doggy bag
14-10-2011
In France there are doggy bags for wine bottles. When a guest in a restaurant doesn’t want to finish the whole bottle of wine but rather take it home, he’ll receive a free specially made doggy bag. These wine doggy bags are used in 45 restaurants in France.
Absolut Mode
14-10-2011
ABSOLUT Vodka is introducing a new Limited Edition bottle called ‘ABSOLUT MODE’. After several other Limited Editions in the past years, such as ABSOLUT DISCO, ABSOLUT ROCK and last years ABSOLUT GLIMMER, the new ABSOLUT MODE will focus on today’s fashion world. The bottle will be available from the 1st of November.
Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange
13-10-2011
Smirnoff organizes a worldwide party in fifty countries at the 12th of November. The vodka brand challenges visitors to come up with original ideas, and create fifty unforgettable nights together. After suggesting an idea in the category music, location, dancing, eating, drinking and ‘other’ people can vote for their favorite idea. The campaign is supported with a video, Facebook page and a website.
Blippar
12-10-2011
Blippar shows the consumer extra product information of a certain product by using augmented reality. By filming the product with a smartphone, product information and recipes appear in the screen of your phone. Blippar has a partnership with several supermarket chains in the UK, such as Tesco and Cadbury’s, in order to make sure that most products will be recognized by Blippar.
Ordering roomservice with a smarthphone
12-10-2011
Hotel-restaurant Villa Ruimzicht, located in Doetichem (in the Netherlands), provides a service where guests order room service by using their Smartphone or tablet pc. Guests can download a free app and scan a QR-code which can be found in the hotel room. A menu appears on the screen in which the guest can order a certain dish or a drink. To offer this service, the hotel uses the ‘Yoursmartbutler’ app, which makes a connection to the register system and communicates the necessary information to the kitchen and to the guest accounts.
Drinking vinegar for your health
12-10-2011
Drinking vinegar is an age old practice in many cultures. Andy Ricker, announced to Best Chef Northwest 2011, launched his Pok Pok Som. This is a refreshing vinegar drink with concentrated flavours of fruit, vegetables and aromatics, and is very good for your health.
Restaurant The Cowfish
12-10-2011
Restaurant The Cowfish is all about ‘East meets West’. It serves both of best worlds; the American hamburger and the popular Japanese sushi. You can find dishes on the menu like the real American hamburgers, Japanese sushi, as well ass a combination of both in fusion dishes.
Drink to Relax
11-10-2011
A moment of relaxation, but staying focused at the same time; a new soda ChillCat Drink to Relax. This is no energy-drink, but a light carbonated soft drink, based on exclusive and natural white and green tea extracts and anti-oxidants, like pomegranate. Specially developed for moments of relaxation and inner peace, without losing the focus.
Massage in the cafe
11-10-2011
Last Sunday the 25th edition of the 4 Miles of Groningen was organized. Afterwards, ‘Café de Koffer’ organized massage-sessions in the café, to massage away the coming muscles ache. A nice way to pamper your guests!
Create your own chocolate
11-10-2011
Elsa Lambinet, a French designer, created these chocolates which can be composed to your own favorite taste. This is possible by combine the three basic elements; a base of white, milk or dark chocolate, a filling, and a topping. See the chocolates here.
