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.
During a demo at the TED conference in California, Delta showed a concept shower called ‘Photon Shower’ that could help passengers recover from their jet lag. Delta worked together with Wieden + Kennedy New York and sleep expert Dr. Russell Foster to design a shower that uses light to alter the body’s internal clock. Travelers can enter their flight information and the ‘Photon Shower’ will adjust for their needs based on flight time. The light recreates the effects of sunlight to alleviate jet lag.
The Youth Food Movement and the Dutch ‘Agrarische Jongeren Kontakt’ bring farmers and consumers together at the online platform ‘Het Eetcafé’. With the online platform the distance between farmer and consumer is reduced and the consumer learns more about the daily practice on a farm. The online platform gives the farmer the opportunity to explain how things are going at the farm and the consumers can ask questions, criticize and start discussions. The platform will soon be offline as well. This year they will organize days throughout the country where farmers meet consumers in the city and consumers can visit the farm to see where their food comes from. The project is supported by the Ministry of Economics of the Netherlands.
Josh Tetrick, founder of start up Hampton Creek food, worked together with specialists such as food scientists, chefs and molecular biologists to figure out how to create a product that is made out of plants but works like an egg. The team had to dissect an egg down to its microbiology and nutritional components. They developed a plant-based egg, called ‘Beyond Eggs’. The Beyond Eggs can replace an egg in food like baked goods, dressing ore sauces. Beyond Eggs are healthier, cholesterol-free, allergy-free and the food safety is better.
On April 6 the Belgian Beer Day will be organized. The Captain Beerheart Foundation organize this event to connect all Belgian beer fans from all over the world and toast to Belgian Beer. More than 8.000 people from 103 countries already support the Belgian Beer Day.
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Coca Cola’s new coffee brand “Far Coast” placed these sustainably developed seats in the Olympic Village during the Olympics, to promote the new coffee brand. The chairs are made so that they can easliy be combined to multiple seats.
Every year many small children get injured by burns from hot drinks. In order to solve this the ‘mummy mug’ is developed. A cap for your mug. You can only drink coffee by pressing your upper lip on the cap.
Don’t you like hot dogs, but you do like the shape of a hot dog? With this device designed by Taylor Gifts is possible to make all kinds of food in the shape of a hot dog. Perfect for parents who’s kids are addicted to hot dogs and they want them to eat something different.
To give somebody a cookie is always a good idea. Now, you can put a personal message on your cookies. Seperate letters can be assembled into a baking dish and personal messages can be added to the biscuits.
Design Bridge has developed two new pints, which are much safer than traditional pints. The prototypes consist of Glass Plus (left photo) and Twin Wall (right photo). Glass Plus has a thin, transparent layer of organic resin on the inside and Twin Wall consists of two ultra-thin layers of glass which are joined together, similar to glass in car windshields. Both prototypes ensure that when the glass breaks, the dangerous glass shards are held together securely.
Tak studio has designed a ‘road lamppost-and-windturbin-in-one’. By catching the wind and airflow caused by the cars speeding by, energy is generated. This energy causes the street lighting to turn on. The lampposts no longer need to be connected to the powernetwork.
Inspired by a movie where someone lost an eye due to a teaspoon, this teaspoon is eye-freindly. By bending the end, it is safe to drink coffee or tea with the spoon in the cup. The spoons are available in several trendy colors.
Design student from the Design Institute in Nantes, Adrien Cussonneau, designed a very original bottle. From one side it looks like a normal glass bottle, the other side of the bottle however is completely flat.
At the airport of Sao Paulo, Brasil, these luggage carts are available. By the image of the Paralympic athlete it looks as if a wheelchair is pushed forward. Howerver, this is a fund raising campaign for athletes. So that they are able to attend the paralympics.
For those who always get cold arms when reading a book in bed, Happinessinbed thought of this duvet with sleeves.
It is often difficult to butter your sandwich with cold butter. Cookit, a French company designed a butter grater. By grating the butter thinly it is easier to butter. In addition, you use less butter which is better for your health.
Restaurant Instructables opened in Amsterdam. This restaurant is a so-called “open source restaurant”. This means that of everything you eat in the restaurant, the recipe can be found on their website, as well as an instruction about how to recreate the furniture.
Just before the opening of the new Mövenpick Hotel in Dubai, the hotel used a special window cleaner: Spiderman.
A Korean icecream shop has created a playful action for his 37th anniversary. On the paper packaging of the ice cream cones is a image of a head, making the ice cream the hair of the head. The inside of the package contained a coupon for a haircut.
The site www.horecavoorhoreca.nl is a Dutch online marketplace for hotels, restaurants and catering entrepreneurs. Here anything can be offered, from inventory to ingredients.
The times when popcorn was only sweet or salt are over. Popcorn Diva is available with pesto flavor, balsamic vinegar flavor and red pepper flavor. With this popcorn a visit to the cinema is almost a culinary experience.
These crayons are made from edible seeds, dried fruits and other healthy ingredients. The color of the crayon corresponds with the ingredients used. So you don’t have to worry when a child puts a crayon in his or her mouth!
This new LED lamp is economical, environmentally friendly and purifies the air. Dust, smoke and dust mites are all absorbed by the lamp.
Schiphol Amsterdam Airport in The Netherlands is the first airport in Europe that has two ordering colums at the McDonald’s Restaurant in Lounge 3 (behind the passport check). Guests can use a touchscreen for their orders and pay by debit or credit card.
Sportbrands and beer are not often related. Puma however, launches a special “Unity beer” with the upcoming world cup in South Africa in Mind.
The Hamburger Inn in Ohio has found a creative way to generate additional income. Both the glassware and the menus contain ads from local businesses.
Restaurant Klein Paardenburg in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel caused a stir by sending a mailing with the picture above included. Many regular guests contacted the restaurant immediately to ask if the restaurant was for sale. It was a promotional stunt, in cooperation with a real estate broker offering 3 -, 4 – and 5 – course menus. The restaurant itself was ofcourse not for sale.The stunt was created by Lennert Rietveld, Van Spronsen & Partners horeca-advies.
After 6 years of research they finally developed an anti-hangover drink. The contents of the 3cl bottle temper the hangover. The ingredients of the drink are a combination of several herbal extracts, with pear flavor. These herbs are known for their detoxifying effect. It should work approximately 45 minutes after consumption.
Vin Service is a delivery service in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, for chilled beer, wine, soft drinks, chips and liquor. They also rent out party tents, BBQ’s and DVD players. They are open from Wednesday through Saturday from 8:00 p.m. to 1:00 and Sunday from 8:00 p.m. to 0:00. To create name recognition, they did most of their promotion through the social network Hyves.
In The Netherlands it’s not uncommon to live on water. The British company Space Water may even have based there H2Office on it . This floating office is suitable for two people, and can be placed in most ports. This creates opportunities for ports that are just not deep enough for most boats.
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