Barista Mike Breach turns a simple cup of coffee into a wonderful creation. The draws detailed images into his lattes and make real coffee art. Earlier we saw a cup of coffee elevated to true art with the 3d latte art. But we think that Mike Breach is the Rembrandt in latte art…… He should be able to show his art at our recently opened Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam ;-).
BlueSpoon is located in the recently opened Andaz Amsterdam Prinsengracht hotel, a lifestyle and boutique hotel in Amsterdam. The Bluespoon Bar is inspired by the American Prohibition and gives you the atmosphere of a traditional pub in an international and dynamic environment. The cocktail bar serves hand-crafted cocktails made with traditional ingredients and focuses on the three different periods of the American Prohibition: pre-Prohibition, Prohibition and post-Prohibition’. The freshly picked herbs, fresh juices and carefully distilled liquors are processed in cocktails with funny names like ‘One Minute Delft Blue’ or ‘Lucky Librarian’.
The first edition of ‘Sunday Jazz & Wine’ in the MC Theater Amsterdam takes place on Sunday April 7th. An event with a special wine arrangement, culinary tastings and live jazz music from jazz artist Aruan Oritz from Cuba. Sunday Jazz & Wine is initiated by the MC Theater, Aubergine Cuisine and ‘De Wijnengel’ a supplier of classic European wines. Chef cook Aldwin Veenstra (Aubergine Cuisine) prepares the appetizers and accompanied by performances of jazz artists. Each new season starts with a tasting of wine and appetizers.
Watch how you’ve spent the night with a piece of art. That is possible at hotel chain Ibis Hotels. The chain offers guests a ‘sleep art app’ that makes an artwork of your sleep pattern. As the guest sleeps, the app runs throughout the night recording sounds, movements and vibrations through the iPhone’s built-in sensors. Your unconscious activity during your sleep has been interpreted as a colorful work of art. Natural green shades in the sleep masterpieces signal a relaxed night of sleep, whilst red and amber tones suggest that you had a restless night. The ‘sleep artwork’ can be shared by email or via Twitter and Facebook.
Perrier is the sexiest sparkling water you’ll ever taste, says Perrier. So sexy that you will find yourself transported to a secret online party. Perrier and Ogilvy have invited you with Perrier Secret Place, an online underground nightclub where you will bounce around the different viewpoints of attendees at the ‘party’. If you find the ‘golden woman’ and ‘secret bottle’ you will make a chance to win a trip to a ‘real’ party somewhere like St. Tropez, Rio during Carnival, Miami Art Basel or at Ibiza. Check more clips at the website of ADweek.
A very useful gadget! With the ‘Stem’ juice spray, you can directly spray juice from a citrus fruit on your salad or dish. Use the serrated teeth to chomp a hole in the fruit and you can spray lightly and evenly.
At this place we want to congratulate Ron Blauw (former owner of Ron Blaauw (2 Michelinstars) in Amsterdam) with the opening of ‘Ron Gastropub’ today. In his new restaurant, he returns to affordable quality, 25 dishes at high gastronomic level for € 15, = per dish and a fixed margin on the wine. We will have to wait a couple of months to see if his new company is appreciated by Michelin. More and more we see that chefs are talking about a different reorientation. In November last year Flemisch Foodie Jason Blanckaert from Gent indicated he wanted to follow his own course and didn’t want to be mentioned in the culinary guides Gault & Millau and Michelin anymore. He opened his own bistro JEF in Gent last year.
Of course there are chefs who have started a gastropub alongside their existing business. In Stockbrigde Tom Kitchin and Dominic Jack (both good for a Michelin star) opened last week their pub ‘The Scran and Scallie’. The dishes are simplified and at this place it’s all about enjoying great food, drinks and fun at affordable levels.
Frantzen / Lindeberg opened in Stockholm in addition to their 2-star Michelin restaurant, a gastropub ‘The Flying Elk‘ where they serve the British ‘ fish and chips’. Their motto, “Haute cuisine meets the British Pubcultur”.
These are just some recent examples of star chefs who alter their direction or opened a gastropub next to their existing business. Makes you wonder who will follow?
Another great video of Restaurant Alinea, created by Christian Seel. Check also the video of the lamb course or the edible helium balloon.
For the new campaign, fashion brand Stussy worked together with FreshCotton. FreshCotton has monopoly on the sale of Stussy t-shirts and as a result of this collaboration they launched a cookbook that uses a typical ingredient of Amsterdam, weed. For this project FreshCotton asked the highly rated chef Misha Sukyas to create recipes with every street-legal drugs available in Amsterdam. The project shows what we like about Amsterdam: fashion, good food and having fun. Check out the website of FreshCotton for recipes.
Early February Bastian Heuser (Barworkz), Mario Grünenfelder (Rocco & Sanny, AMANO Bar) and Sebastian Brack (soda brand Thomas Henry) opened in cooperation with Tanqueray No. TEN a pop-up Gin and Tonic Bar in Berlin. The bar features classic cocktails with gin and tonic in numerous variants and they differ every season. In addition to the various cocktails, they also serve gin and tonic tea variants. The G&T bar organizes workshops and lectures and will be open for one year. Last 27 and 28 March there was a pop-up Gin and Tonic bar in Covent Garden London as well. Pop-up bars are regularly used to promote drinks.
With the ‘Tea Fusion’ Lipton offers a new tea concept. The quality and experience of making a cup of tea will increase. During making a cup of tea, the tea will experience a ‘Tea Fusion’ that is visible through the transparent cylinder. As a result it releases an enhanced smell, color and taste. Lipton has a special assortment of teas from Kenya available for the Tea Fusion concept.
The Canadian pizza chain ‘Boston Pizza’ has launched a new bun-less menu on April first. The Pizza salad, Choco pizza and the Pizza Bread Pudding of the menu were a joke, but the Pizzaburger is apparently, not a joke! The Pizzaburger is not just a burger with a pizza topping, but it is an actual bacon hamburger wrapped in a pepperoni pizza with a hand-pressed crust smothered in pizza sauce and mozzarella. There is also a five-cheese Pizzaburger available
Beer and Bubs is a one-night session for expectant dads to learn how to support their partner through the birth of their baby. The session is held in pubs in Australia. The program is perfect for first time fathers who don’t know what they’re in for and it helps men gain the practical knowledge they need to be involved in the births of their children. During the session the man will meet dads who recently became father and other expectant dads. The Beer and Bubs is run in local pubs in all major cities of Australia. Seems to us a hilarious subject for a good night out for bachelor parties or baby showers for men.
‘Somersby’ is the new cider brand from Carlsberg – Real Refreshment. It is a naturally-balanced, medium cider, made with no artificial flavorings or sweeteners. Since every third ad has to be an Apple parody now, Carlsberg makes fun of Apple Store product launches in this TV spot for Somersby Cider from agency Fold7. Great advertisement….
A cup of coffee or an ice cream on hold.. At ice cream parlor Mezzo in Amsterdam it is possible to order a cup of coffee or ice cream and put it on hold for someone who can’t pay it. It does not necessarily have to be a cup of coffee, it may also be a (hot) drink, or in this case an ice cream. A simple way to do something for others, without knowing who it is. This tradition began in Naples (Italy) but starts to spread across the world rapidly. Earlier we saw that consumers could put a cup of coffee on hold for someone at Coffee Company (The Netherlands).
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What can you do to let people recycle their cans faster? This is partly a slot machine. Your empty can is the token to play. As soon as the can is crushed, the game starts playing. With a little luck you will win a cold full can.
This site features ideas to improve the behavior of people through fun and pleasure. In this case, a traffic light with a display with interesting facts or questions while the light is red.
A table that you can use as a real table at dinnertime, but if visitors come for a game of poker, the table can be turned into a poker table. The border around the table is equipped with LED lighting in 27 colors.
This unique yacht is designed by renowned architect Lucas Brenta. The glass panels in the roof make the design special and it creates a spatious effect. The interior design gives you a feeling of ultimate luxury.
Designer Julien Muller made the Coca-Cola bottles, which are more environmentally friendly than regular bottles. One for every taste.
KFC has replaced the hamburgerbun for two grilled chickenbreasts. Together with two slices of bacon, two cheeses and a sauce it is the Double Down. It contains 540 calories.
Students at the Technical University of Delft have found a solution so that they can move stuff without help from parents or having to rent an expensive bus. With the cargo bike you can load the furniture in the bike and two people will cycle it to the new residence.
An entrepreneur from London, gathers grapes from people in the region, and then makes wine out of it. In return, these people get six bottles of wine and are kept informed about news from the company.
Two students at an American university developed the Google Maps Envelope. The envelope indicates where the mail comes from and where it needs to be delivered.
Besides vending machines that sell cans of soda there is now the Graffomat. This machine contains everything a graffiti-artists needs for their artwork.
In English-speaking areas one can read a bedtime story to children even if the (grand) parents are not present. You can record audio and video of yourself that simultaneously runs with a virtual book. This way you can read it to your child without actually being present.
Usefull, patented and reusable (thus sustainable) carrying system for cups and glassware. Upon request with logo. Ideal for events, festivals and parties.
Radio and television needed 38 and 13 years to reach 50 million users, Internet only needed 4 years.. Facebook had 100 million users in just 9 months. Social media hype or a fundamental shift?
When you get an article in Vogue magazine long before the opening in June, then your expected to become a very trendy burger bar in New York. The name is Burger & Barrel and the bar belongs to the owner of Lure Fishbar. Menu: from luxury light burgers to the classic burgers and many salads.
After Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay, the British TV cook Nigella Lawson now also has her own iPhone application. For € 5.99 you get 70 (English speaking) recipes, quick and easy to prepare.
Blofield, known for its inflatable chairs and sofas, has introduced a new product. An inflatable bathtub with champagne cooler and “table”.
In Texas the first train is powered by a sustainable mix of diesel and a byproduct of beef. It consists of 20% biofuel and 80% regular diesel. It involves a test of 12 months.
If you suffer from a plague of grasshoppers you can always use them as an ingredient on pizzas. This is exactly what an Australian pizza maker has done.
On the third floor of a large shopping mall in Phuket a modern and trendy nightclub is located, with a capacity of 700 people. The design with round shapes is inspired by the human ear and is developed by Bed Management Company.
The first World Cup gadget is out: the Dutchy Dress by Bavaria. During the World Cup Bavaria focuses on women. With a specially designed 8 pack of beer you will find an orange dress with a red / white / blue cord. The dress is revealed by football wife Sylvie van der Vaart.
Sauna, Turkish bath and shower in one for home use. It is a compact unit making it possible to apply in every home. With a touchscreen you can choose between the different programs.
London based Millies Cookies biscuits has opened a new store in Paris.
The Top Chef Tour 2010 will visit 21 cities in the US. At each stop there is the possibility to meet the top chef of the moment and to taste his famous food. Based on the television show Top Chef.
With this life-size Lego bricks you can always re-build your own furniture, Lego-style.
Crown Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen offers it’s guests a free meal ticket of € 26.00, when they will generate electricity for 15 minutes on a hometrainer. This way the hotel wants to limit it’s carbonfootprint.
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