During my holiday we were introduced to the PET bottles of Firefly. Attracted by the fresh design, I bought a few bottles on the go. A delicious fresh taste, 100% natural and thirst-quenching. Is currently sold in the Netherlands in glass bottle and soon in PET bottles. Available in the tastes lemon & Lime, Orange & Passionfruit and Rasberry & Pommegrate. Also nice to sell in a hotel lobby shop…. ^ Marjolein
Marriott Hotel asks their reward members to give feedback on the hotel rooms. The members are invited to the headquarters to give their opinion on the rooms, ranging from type of bed to the shower pressure. In the basement of the headquarters ‘The Underground’ lab is opened in June. ‘The Underground’ is an area where they work on innovation and improvement of the future of Marriott. Members can design their own hotel room in this area by moving the interior. Marriott get additional information for improvement in the future.
The Trump hotel in SoHo offers a special program for the children and teenagers. The program is for children between 3 and 17 years. There are child friendly facilities such as special kids cocktails, coloring books and children’s room service menu. But there are also special rates for children at the luxury spa, a map of the city with must see spots and movie channels. Parents can hire a nanny or let their kids have swim lessons.
Last holiday we enjoyed reading Alain Caron’s book, Tour d’Alain (a French chef living in the Netherlands, so unfortunately in Dutch). Because of his enthusiastic stories about Montpellier we spent a few hours there. There we saw a new initiative by the former French three-star chef Marc Veyrat. In addition to his self-service restaurant ‘Cozna Vera‘ in Annecy, he opened ‘Glaces &Jus by Marc Veyrat’ early August in Montpellier. A small shop where you can pick frozen bio fruit and put it in various size cups, after which you can choose whether they will make an ice cream, yogurt ice cream, sorbet or smoothie from it. We had a delicious rhubarb yoghurt ice cream with raspberry, a smoothie of wild strawberries and a banana milkshake … Delicious …. And if you’re ever near Montpellier, go soak up the city and a bowl of healthy fruit processed at Urbanfruits. ^Marjolein
Taco Bell has held a fun stunt in collaboration with agency Grip Limited during the launch of the long-awaited arrival of Doritos Locos Tacos in Canada. Impatient customers were surprised during a special fan event. The exasperated tweets from the impatient customers were burned with a special laser on the first batch of shells and served to the specific customer. These customers ate literally their own words on the taco.
Boutique hotel Affinia Hotels has started a partnership with US online grocer ‘FreshDirect’ to offer their guests an extra service. The rooms at the Affinia Hotels are equipped with a kitchen, separate dining area that allows guests to cook in their hotel room. Therefore the hotel offers meal packages by FreshDirect, such as the Healthy kit or the Business kit. The boxes are filled with food like fruits, vegetables, biscuits, dairy products and chips. Guests can order these boxed when they make the reservation for the hotel room or during their stay.
Two starred michelin chef Moshik Roth and business partner Salem Samhoud will open the DNA restaurant &samhoud Foodlab in Amsterdam on 31 October. It will be the first restaurant in the world that serves DNA in the dishes. The restaurant will serve three natural GenBoosters with DNA extracts. The menu also contains small shakes and meals, as well as lunches, dinners with GenBooster to choice. The exact location in Amsterdam is not confirmed yet. The restaurant will be open seven days a week.
Update: The foodlab appears to be a hoax to feed the discussion about better food for everyone.
During the open door days of supermarket chain Albert Heijn on 21 and 28 September you can personally meet local farmers and growers. Approximately 140 participating farms, greenhouses and orchards are open for visitors. For adults there are guided tours organized where they can learn everything behind the product. Children can experience where there food comes from and get their farmers and growers diploma. Using the online map of Albert Heijn you can see which farmers and growers participate in the Netherlands. During these days consumers can meet the people behind the fresh products of Albert Heijn.
From 3 till 6 September the second edition of the ‘On The Roof Film Festival’ will be organized. During the four evenings films and documentaries with the theme ‘your green heart’ will be played. The festival will take place on the roof of the ‘Vrije Universiteit’ in Amsterdam. Every night, before the film starts, interviews with scientists about their green heart will be shown. Watch the video to get an impression of last year’s edition.
Frossja and Martijn are serving coffee with organic mini donuts from a 1974 caravan . The ‘Donut factory’ makes traditional mini donuts of organic flour and the toppings are adapted to the occasion. The ‘Donut factory’ also serves several fair trade coffees, teas and organic soft drinks and juices. You can find the ‘Donut factory’ at festivals, (organic) markets, fairs in the Netherlands but it is also available for rent for companies or individuals.
Hotel Country Inn & Suites in Niagara Falls offers their guests an easy way to order pizza. Guests don’t have to search for a local pizza delivery because the hotel room telephones have a pizza button. The pizza button connects the guest directly with a local pizza company to order a pizza. An extra service for emergency pizza cravings.
Cafellow is a new social platform focused on cafés, bars and terraces. Consumers can find a café selected on characteristics such as location, type of cafe, specialties, atmosphere and openings hours. They can also invite friends or share their favorite café through this platform. At this moment the service is available in six cities in the Netherlands, where more than 1,200 cafes are mapped. Cafellow creates a direct connection between supply and demand in the market.
After chocolate beer, breakfast beer and coffee beer, a new special beer is introduced. During the opening of the Avocado Festival in Los Angeles, Angel City Brewery introduced a on guacamole inspired ‘Avocado Ale’. This special beer is made from a blend of Californian avocado, coriander, garlic, red pepper and lime. Ingredients that you normally use for guacamole. We are wondering if this beer also tastes delicious with tortilla chips?
In the Yotel hotel in New York, the luggage of guests is stored in a special way. It is not the concierge at the hotel taking the luggage, but the robot arm ‘Yobot’. Guests easily place their luggage in a bin and enter a pin number with their name. Yobot picks the luggage and stores it safely in one of the lockers. Guests will receive a receipt with a barcode that they can use to collect their luggage. An ingenious idea that gives more experience during a stay at the hotel. Watch the video of world’s first luggage robot here.
Earlier this year Hotel Zetta in San Francisco opened its doors with the motto ‘work hard, play hard’. Designed by Andrea Dawson and her team of Dawson Design Associates, the hotel has 116 rooms and a creative and sustainable design with a unique experience for tourists and business travelers. In the lobby guests can enjoy various games. On the ground floor is a bar with different lounge areas and a large game where guests can roll a ball from top to bottom and score points. Upstairs is another public area with sofas, TV, video games, a pool table, a shuffleboard and other games. By offering these games, the hotel generates a creative (work) place for guests.
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The catering company Premium Cocktails is specialized in cocktails. The mobile bars can be rented on (business) events. The cocktails will be adjusted to the wishes of the organizer and the type of party. Premium Cocktails also offers as workshops.
On November 17th the Dutch bag designer Omar Munie opened a new store in Rotterdam. In this store he sells his bags and during the weekends a Bag & Tea is offered on the first floor of the building. During a high tea, the customers can search for the perfect bag. Munie wants to give his customers a relaxed feeling of being together. The menu offers sweets like cupcakes but also several savory dishes as quiche and sambusa.
In The People’s Supermarket, members receive a 10 percent discount on their groceries. For this membership, they need to pay an annual fee of £ 25,=. Besides this, each member has to work for four hours in that supermarkt. Thanks to the low personnelcosts, the supermarket can offer low prices.
The Detox Market, an eco-friendly pop-up market, sells natural beauty products and organic food, produced by serveral small farms. The interior consists of recycled wood. Besides grocery shopping, people can visit The Detox Market for facials, tastings, demo’s, parties or just for a conversation with the owner.
The government of New York is looking for restaurant and café owners who are willing to open pop-up terraces on the sidewalk, during the summers of 2011 and 2012. Those who are interested can subscribe online. If the owners are chosen to open a pop-up terrace, they have to design and maintain the terrace.
Design studio Ludens is specialized in making prints on several materials. This company is using the program Repper, which deforms pictures into a creative pattern. This pattern can be printed on several materials, for example a banana.
Passengers of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines may be surprised with a gift as soon as they announced there travelplans on foursquare. KLM uses the slogan ‘ We want to discover how happiness spreads’. Through the website you can register yourself as a follower of KLM.
In the Chinese city of Changsha a sustainable summer hotel was built in just six days. The 15-storey hotel that was put together from prefabricated building blocks. During construction, 6x less material was used and only 1% waste was produced. The building is very sustainable using 5x less energy than usual, it is powered by solar energy, thermal isolation in the walls and the roof, triple windows and LED lighting. Additional advantage for the guests is that the air in the hotel is 20 times cleaner than outside!
With the new iPhone application Fooducate supermarket visitors can find out the nutritional facts of products. By scanning the barcode the application also shows a healthier alternative to the product. Currently there are more than 160,000 products that can be scanned by Fooducate, this number increases every day.
There are buildings that are completely different from others in their structure, design and / or color. On the website of Ayzor is a top ten with the most outstanding buildings in the world. This top ten include The Dancing House (right), Basket Building (top left) and Kansas City Libary (bottom left).
Many people don’t really like them; brussel sprouts. But these purple brussel sprouts by Ecoville are sweeter and mild. Many people find them tastier than the traditional green brussel sprouts. Another advantage is that the purple brussel sprouts are healthier because the purple color indicates the presence of powerful antioxidants.
These mugs are specially designed for real tea lovers. Besides that the mugs have nice prints that are also very functional. One of them is the mug with a special compartment for the tea bag (middle). This box has small holes so the tea can be absorbed by the hot water.
De thee van Sokenbicha komt oorspronkelijk uit Japan. De Japanners denken dat deze thee helpt bij het bereiken van een gezonde balans van binnenuit. De thee is geheel calorievrij en wordt gebrouwen met authentieke en natuurlijke ingrediënten. Sokenbicha is verkrijgbaar in verschillende smaken o.a. kaneel, groene thee, gember en zwarte thee.
These innovative designs are created by architect Steven Ma. The collection of glassware Ma has an organic feel with dynamic and fluid forms. The silverware is aerodynamic and ergonomic in detail.
With these beverage dispensers, pouring drinks becomes a lot more fun. You can pour a drink from a globe , a rifle or a miniature gas pump. Special is the Trufill (picture right). The Trufill can fill up ten glasses of beer within just ten seconds the bottom of the glass.
The young design student Sarah Dery created a new, creative way of tea packaging. She gathered inspiration from the famous Rubik’s Cube. The cube is folded from a single sheet of paper and consists of 27 small squares. In these boxes, the tea bags are stored. The cube contains three types of tea: black, red and green tea.
Wine Journalist Mariëlla Beukers, presented the first wine webshop guide. To compile this guide she tasted different wines from various online merchants. The web guide provides an overview of various large and small wine importers and merchants. According to Breuer, the webguide provides convenience and will therefore be published every year.
The Charles Hotel in Cambridge offers guests free charging stations for electric cars. The hotel also works with a so-called Nanomax system. This system measures the weight and volume of arriveng cars. The smaller and more environmentally friendly the car is, the less parking fee you pay. The parkingspots for environmentally friendly cars are marked with colorful graphics and feature energy-efficient lighting.
Several major restaurant chains in Japan have their own salad machine. The machine provides 60 heads of lettuce per day and ensures that restaurants are provided with the right quality of lettuce. The machine, called “Chef’s Farm” grows lettuce without sunlight. The machine uses 12 fluorescent lamps of 40 watts. The machine is made by Dentsu Facility Management Inc. and is only available in Japan for € 75,000, =.
World’s first Aston Martin Club Lounge has opened its doors. The club opened in the upscale district of Dempsey Hill, Singapore. The interior of the club refers to the famous British car brand, so there are tables made from Aston Martin rims and on the walls different prints of famous Aston Martin are displayed. The drinks in this exclusive lounge are named after Aston Martin cars.
After butchers, bakersy and ice cream vendors, there is now a chocolatier that twitters, bloggs and facebooks. Until recently Vander Donk Fine Chocolates in Amsterdam only had online shop but opened its first store this week. Vander Donk uses social media to provide information about its activities and shares recipes on Facebook and Twitter.
Golden Star Tea is handmade of the finest quality tea, sweetened with cane juice and then mildly fermented . During the fermentation historic and modern winemaking techniques are used, to ensure that the taste of this non-alcoholic beverage is in perfect balance. Golden Star Tea is drunk likechampagne and is suitable for various occasions.
Marc McClean heeft een bord ontworpen speciaal voor het serveren van sushi. Het bord bestaat uit een aantal vakjes en schaaltjes waarin sushi, saus of soep geserveerd kan worden en is verkrijgbaar in de kleuren wit en metallic grijs.
Grolsch beer wants to improve the experience for visitors of restaurants and entrepreneurs. Therefore Grolsch launched the ‘Music Glass Line. The glasses are called: Soul, Funk, Pop, Jazz, Blues, and Classic Rock. With this new line Grolsch want to inderline its relationship with live music. The new glasses will be introduced in hotels and restaurants the next few weeks.
The young Serbian designer Denis Bostandzic invented nachos shaped like a spoon, ‘Spoonachos’. With this new shape it’s easier to dip you nachos in guacamole or any other sauce.
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