The modern Greek restaurant ‘Lemonia’, located on the edge of Utrecht, presents their wine list in a special way. They put a wine bottle with a wine list label at each table. The label has a description of the wines and the price per glass / bottle.
Action by Go-Tan: the company collaborates with the ‘Tropenmuseum’ to start the action ‘Photo is looking for family’ to find the rightful owners of 335 family albums under former inhabitants of Dutch East Indies. Go-Tan put stickers with family photos on 80.000 ’emping’ bags to reach people who have lost an album, or can help identifying owners of an album.
Easter is in the air! In the coming weeks we will occasionally publish remarkable recipes or action on horecatrends. For example, the trend of the last year Special Easteregg. Do you have a special recipe or does your restaurant or hotel plan a special activity, let us know by mail via tip@spronsen.com . Who knows your company might be on horecatrends.
Every year on April 1st the liberation of the Spanish occupation by ‘Sea Beggars’ is celebrated in Brielle, The Netherlands. During this day the people of Brielle wear historical clothing and they perform in the open air theater ‘the key to the city’. This year the activity coincides with Easter. Brasserie Hotel De Nymph serves the traditional ‘Sea Beggars’ meal consisting of marrowfats, bacon, fried onions, piccalilli, pickles, stewed meat and boiled potatoes. Because the festival coincides with Easter, Brasserie The Nymph combines Easter with the ‘Sea Beggars’ meal and serves the meal in egg shape.
McDonald’s has launched new packaging designs on all carry-out bags and fountain beverage cups. The new packaging is designed to communicate brand stories in an engaging and modern way. The packaging is a blend of text, illustration and a QR code and will deliver interesting facts about de brand. It makes information easily accessible from mobile devices. The packaging is launched in the United States and will be rolled out worldwide through 2013.
Club Vie in Rotterdam reopened its doors on Friday 1 March after a complete renovation. Our colleague Armand Sol was invited for the premiere and visited the venue. Club Vie is partly positioned under the ‘Willemsbrug’ and has two floors. The lower floor ‘The Jaxx’ has a nice river view and a ceiling that changes color. The upper floor has a dance floor and four different sitting areas on various levels. Because of the playful location of these sitting areas, the club breathes an intimate atmosphere that is not usual in other similar sized clubs. The LED lights are installed by InventDesign and provides a luxurious glance to the club’s interior.
Inspired by the Bay Bridge’s 75th Anniversary, artist Leo Villareal created the project ‘The Bay Lights’. ‘The Bay Lights’ is the world’s largest LED light sculpture, that is made of 25,000 white LED lights and is 1.8 miles wide and 500 feet high. Each light is individually programmed and shines from dusk until 2:00 a.m for the next two years.
PepsiCo introduced its world famous soft drink brand Mountain Dew in the Netherlands last week. The brand is known for its neon green packaging with a popping logo. Mountain Dew is a thirst quenching soft drink with a refreshing citrus taste and focuses primarily on a male target group between 16 and 24 years old. In the United States, the soft drink has been one of the largest fresh rank brands, but is now also available in the Netherlands in bottles of 0.5 L.
Edible Arrangements sells bouquets made from fresh fruit. The ‘confetti fruit cupcake’ is a festive bouquet of fruit in different forms with cupcakes. For the cupcake, a pineapple is shaped in a cupcake, dipped in white and brown chocolate and topped with festive sprinkles. The cupcake-shaped pineapple is arranged in a cupcake holder together with other fresh fruit. The ‘confetti fruit cupcake’ is a cheerful bouquet to serve for dessert or breakfast. Edible Arrangements has many outlets in America (more than 1.000), but also in the Far East, Middle East and Italy.
Inside the colorful carboard boxes by Martins Café, a coffeebrand from the vicinity of Sao Paulo, you don’t expect to find coffee. The boxes are colorful, retro and with their robot logo printed on the cardboard. Martins Café is a Brazilian brand of specialty coffee which comes in the variants cardamom, anise, cinnamon, nutmeg and 100% Arabica. With the package Martins Café wanted to create something colorful, retro and Brazilian that would catch your eye. Read the article on www.coolhunting.com to know why the use robots as their logo….
Easter is in the air! In the coming weeks we will occasionally publish remarkable recipes or action on horecatrends. For example, the action of the last year by The Cavendish Hotel. Do you have a special recipe or does your restaurant or hotel plan a special activity, let us know by mail. Who knows your company might be on horecatrends.
These truffle eggs are fun to serve as dessert during the Easter dinner. Or wrap the truffle eggs up in a box as a personal gift. The classic chocolate truffle recipe is from chef Chris Horridge. Watch the recipe here.
OpenTable released a new Facebook App that’s called ‘Places I’ve Eaten’. With this app users can list and rate the restaurants they’ve been to, choose what they will like to visit and see the places that their Facebook friends have listed and rated. With this app users can also search for restaurants based on their rating, places their Facebook friends have visited ore select properties known as kid-friendly and serving vegetarian food. Users can choose to keep their listing private or to make it available on Facebook for others. Earlier the company acquired the FoodSpotting App.
With this scientific spice rack you can organize dried herbs. Each herb is stored in a separate glass test tube and is labeled with a sticker. This pice rack is a fun item on a table in a restaurant.
Even if a guy is wearing a simple t-shirt, with this napkin at his neck he looks like he did his best to get dressed up for dinner. A funny alternative for a tie.
Two former Noma sous-chefs Samuel Nutter and Victor Wagman will open a new restaurant named Bror, in the heart of Copenhagen next month. Currently there are not many details available, but they will grow their own vegetables on Sejerø island. The two chefs have opened a Twitter and Facebook account to keep people up to date on the progress.
We couldn’t find an immersive Christmas Light Maze in Europe yet, howevere correct us if we are wrong. But we love the idea, another fun read more
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For the fifth consecutive year master pastry chef Pierre Hermé organized Le Jour du Macaron. New York participates for the first time this year where the day is called “Macaron Day” at the initiative of François Payard, chef and owner of Chocolate Bar François. Who will follow in The Netherlands?
This funny board can not only be linked together, but is also useful for serving snacks.
Online accounting service Yuki now has an iPhone app. If you used to scan the invoices and send it, now you just need a picture of the invoice. This picture is then automatically sent and processed.
New flavour of Absolut vodka. Absolut Berri Acia made from acia berries
A light switch that makes you think twice before using it, trying to reduce the use of energy. Designed by French designer Zaïgouche Josselin.
Philips Design has developed tableware, in collaboration with the Spanish restaurant Arzak, that responds to food with light.
Smart Energy Glass by Peer+ is designed to save energy and to generate electricity. The amount of light and transparency of the glass can be set, whicih saves energy. For example in the summer the glass turns darker, making it less hot inside and an airconditioning is no longer required.
This brewery is not only popular for its beer and the guided tours, but also because of the company’s commitment to a better environment. The brewery is committed to promote the bicycle. It organizes annual cycling races, owns a ‘bike library’ and regularly organizes drive-in cinemas on their parking lot exclusively accessible to cyclists.
Because of the recession people travel less. Destination Dinners responds to that by bringing the cuisine of different countries from all over the world to consumers. The packages of destination dinners include all ingredients to enjoy the cuisine from for example Lebanon, Japan and Jamaica at home.
Where peppermint and gum only offer temporary defray from a bad breath, AfterGarlic comes with the solution; tablets that tackle the cause of the problem. AfterGarlic helps to neutralize the smelly sulfur compound that occurs in the stomach after eating garlic.
Three-star chef Sergio Herman will serve Mediterranean and Oriental dishes at his newest restaurant Pure C resto-bar in Cadzand-Bad, The Netherlands. The restaurant opened on March 15.
This shot holder is made of lightweight but very strong, “idiot-proof” material. It is handy and the little glasses remain stable. Soon there will be a cardboard version for use on the beach.
By designing this gnawed cutlery Mark Reigelman is trying to create awareness for the famine in the world.
In Seoul, South Korea, they are constructing the first floating islands. On the islands in the Hangang River buildings will be placed, designed by Rem Koolhaas and Daniel Libeskind. The project will cost $ 84 million.
This mini-bar by T.T. Tunks is not only unique because it’s easy to move, but beside the fridge it’s equipped with a coffeemachine and a separate drawer for cigars. This piece of luxury cost approximately € 12.000, -.
The Russian designer Olga Kalugina designed a folding kitchen inspired by the accordion. Completely collapsed it is a simple kitchentable, but when expanded it is a convenient kitchen worktop.
After Vincent van Dijk, who sleeps in a different hotel every night for one year, now there is a guy in New York who will visit 365 bars in 365 days. Marty Wombacher has a preference for ‘brown bars’ because according to him you will encounter the most interesting people in those bars.
In India this is allready the newest rage; bubbly. Because many famous Bollywood actors already use this new social network, thousands of new members submit to Bubbly Motion every day. Bubbly is very similar to Twitter, only they use voice messages instead of written.
For people who hate drinking from cans, The Lighter Side Co. designed this can-holder. It’s really just a handle that easily clicks on a can.
Across the street from L’Arc de Triomphe in Paris, design studios Prospect furnished bar-restaurant L’Arc.
The Spanish restaurant chain Fresc Co. offers guests the opportunity to practice their English while they’re dining out. Fresc Co. owns 40 restaurants in 11 Spanish cities, with an emphasis on fresh ingredients and Mediterranean dishes. The teachers focus on everyday language and work situations in sessions that last two hours. In this way, the restaurant chain gives something back to their guests in these difficult economic times.
These toilets of Nomix contain filters that separate urine substances that are recyclable from useless substances. With the valuable waste such as nitrogen, methane and phosphorus they can then generate electricity or it can be used as fertilizer.
GlassesDirect is an online store that sells glasses. They now solved the problem that you can not try on your glasses when buying online. Still, it doesn’t allow you to experience how the pair of glasses fits your face. But at least you can see what they look like.
With Twitter you can earn money. Those who do well, often earn much money. With that message and a new book (Twitter with result) Dick Raman tours through USA and The Netherlands. “Companies that do not know what Twitter, Facebook and other social networks already mean, are lost”. According to Raman ‘social networks’ are the way to approach the customers.
This trendy umbrella designed by Tuuci is cool in every sense of the word. The design and shade of the parasol looks like the tale of a whale. Besides the unique design the umbrella is strong and it survives in all weather conditions.
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