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.
The Latvian airline AirBaltic gives passengers the opportunity to choose their meal before they are going to fly. When to costumer books his flight online, they can choose their own meal. They can choose from a range of meals, salads, bread, drinks and desserts. And to make the consumer more conscious of what they are eating, the nutritional information is described of each menu item . The customized meals are served by AirBaltic during the flight. An interesting way to offer passengers more choice and it can help to increase revenues.
Syntens Innovatiecentrum organizes the ‘Taste of the Netherlands’ for the sixth time in a row. It’s an annual election of the best product of Dutch origin. The regional qualifying rounds take place in June, where the products will be tasted by the jury. The ultimate finale of ‘Taste of the Netherlands’ will take place on 25 November.
Drinking a glass of Duvel beer and get a two years ripened L’etivaz or Comté Fort Saint-Antoine cheese served with it.. The provocative character and the bitterness of beer fits well with cheese, and it is something different than a wine-cheese combination. Brewery Duvel Moortgat organizes master classes of cheese and beer tastings in cooperation with cheese specialists Michel and Frederic van Tricht. For each type of beer you can find a suitable cheese and vice versa. The cheers sessions start with a fragile cheese and a light beer and end with a strong cheese and beer. Combinations are for example Liefmans Cuvée Brut with a blue cheese or La Chouffe blond with Munster Fermier cheese, a hard cheese with a red crust.
As the summer season begins, people often work outside. With this umbrella, guests at your terrace can recharge their laptop or mobile via an USB outlet. The umbrella has a small solar panel that converts solar energy into electricity for the USB outlet. Restaurants can provide their guests with extra service, allowing guests to spend more time on the terrace.
Obviously The Netherlands is a country filled with flowers that are used in every hotel bouquet or beautiful garden. But special details made out of flowers are not as day-to-day, like in the “Pangkor Laut Resort” in Malaysia where they make little pieces of art of flowers and put them in your room, in the garden or between towels. Do you want to read more examples of small gestures, read our last edition of ‘Royal hospitable gestures‘.
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On billboards in New York and Los Angeles Calvin Klein has published large QR-codes. People who pass by the billboard can scan the code with their smartphones and watch the latest ad.
On www.luxehomeswap.com, owners of luxurious homes can trade houses and spend their holidays at this location.
As a passenger you won’t get bored on the Norwegian Epic. Besides the new icebar (which is mentioned befored), this luxurious ship also features a bowling alley.
KHN, the Dutch hotel and restaurant organization, has developed an ice cream parlor-map, which is available as app for iPhone.
This new Veuve Clicquot Fridge keeps your bottle of champagne cold for two hours.
In collaboration with Burlesque-dancer Dita von Teese, Cointreau opened an exclusive cocktailbar in Paris. Dita von Teese is responsible for the design, interior and the cocktailmenu.
The supermarket-chain Tesco has introduced the lasagna sandwich; a combination of the English and Italian kitchen.
This Propeller Island hotel, located in Berlin, claims to be a small private world where art, culture and objects meet each other.
Guests who want to see the world, and travel comfortably, can stay at the Rotel bus. This hotel on wheels can accommodate 24 guests.Rotel Tours is a German company.
For one day, don’t go online. For one day Face Park was the replacement for the widely used facebook. Watch the movie for more information.
The new Intercontinental hotel has opened its doors in midtown Manhattan, NY, and claims to be the largest construction project in Manhattan since 2002. This 607-room hotel has received the “LEED green building” certificate for environmental friendliness.
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These bottles of Dom Perignon champagne are a tribute to Andy Warhol and the first bottle he designed. This limited edition is only available in 4 shops in Spain.
The Hogshead, an inflatable pub, is set up within 10 minutes with 4 people. It almost looks like a real pub, with flags, paintings on the wall and a fireplace that also serves as emergency exit.
In Sweden, guests can stay in a new type of hotel, high up in the trees. Located 60 kilometres from the Arctic Circle, the hotel features 4 rooms, equipped with plumbing, heating and water so guests can visit the hotel all year long.
The healthy fast food chain Eazie is celebrating their 5 year anniversary. People can win serveral prices, but Eazie also organizes promotional campaigns. watch the video for a flashmob, organized by Eazie.
With the Blackberry Presenter you can show PowerPoint presentations and pdf-files, through a bluetooth connection, without using a computer. You only can show files, no bigger than 2,9 MB.
Absolut Vodka presents ‘Art of Sharing’ pitchers. The special pitchers designed by Stephen J. Powers and Chiho Aoshima are available in 750ml and 1l. size. You can find suggestions for several cocktails on the website.
During this World Cup, a string (of 2,6 km) of Dutch fans walked from downtown Capetown to the Green Point Stadium; a “Fanwalk”. Now people can vote to make this area an official pedestrian area on match days. Cooltown Studios read the following message on an African news website: :“If the roads are closed from the station to the stadium circle every Sunday, it would be a great tourism venue and also a new Cape Town activity. It will add value, bring life to the city on weekends and create new opportunities.”
Advertisements in the sand. The Spanish company rather sees natural sandadvertisements than little airplanes. Vliehors Expres, Vlieland, The Netherlands, does the same, but uses large tires to leave (short) messages.
Lobster sandwiches are sold as if they were drugs. Watch the movie!
Philips Patty (Patty’s Gourmet Pizza) only sells pizzas online. You also have the option to have your pizza delivered precooked – take & bake. On the website she announces a new factory outlet. We’re not exactly sure what that it, but we’ll keep you informed.
On Monday night it’s ‘open kitchen’ night at nightclub Le Troisième Lieu, where amateur-chefs can cook for guests. Dinner costs € 12,=. This concept was spotted before, but then the chef had to bring his own guests.
Ice cream parlor Giapo in Auckland, New Zealand makes ice cream of locally and organically grown fruit. In exchange, the growers are paid out in…ice cream! The fruit is randomly tested to see if the fruit doesn’t contain any pesticides. The ice cream parlor creates surprising flavors like Chocolate Chili and Spirulina (a type of algae).
Owners of a smartphone now don’t have to have cash on them anymore. With Google Checkout you can pay immediately. It works with a QR-Code. The host scans the code, which is linked to the customers credit card and the amount will be credited directly.
Since the 5th of July boutique hotel Andaz is located in the former headquarters of Tommy Hilfiger on 5th Av. In New York City. Guests do check in while enjoying a drink in the lounge, or while they are guided to their rooms. Rooms can be booked as from € 235,= per night.
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