The FabCafe in Japan features a mix of 3D printing, laser cutting and regular coffee menu. They introduced a high-tech machine that can make 3D shapes. In February, the shop organizes a special workshop where participants can make a unique 3D chocolate shape off their own faces. Nice for your Valentine?
A nice way to present your amuses on the table. A tree trunk from about 1 meter long suitable for 15 amuse slides. For sale at the First Impression Shop.
This handmade out of solid oak ‘Linger a little longer’ table designed by Jay Watson reacts to heat. The table is covered with a black thermochromic coating which allows people to leave a temporary mark. The surface responds to heat from a body part or a any warm dish or cup and becomes transparent to reveal the wood beneath.
Restaurant Belle and next door B&B Swaenenvecht in Utrecht organize a overnight lotery on Valentine’s Day. All couples who come to enjoy a 3-course dinner in Restaurant Belle may bring their suitcase. Because this evening a overnight in B&B Swaenenvecht will be raffled.
Only this week during the National Storytelling Week family restaurant Giraffe in London presents ‘Tell Us A Story’. Kids get free meals when they bring a book and their parents, grandparents or carers. Simply bring the kids to the restaurant untill 5pm, read them a story and the kids get a free meal when the adult orders a main course.
Pathé a chain of cinema’s, is testing a couple of new products. They now serve convenience fruit from the brand Chiquita and various flavors of popcorn in a rainbow presentation. While watching the movie, one can try 4 flavors of popcorn for € 7,50. Pathé does also rollout a selfservice concept Drinks & Bites.
The First Impression shop sells different kind of wooden plates. When you serve game, these plates are an assest to the dish. They’re light of weight and they can be cleaned in a dishwasher.
The restaurant ‘In de keuken van Floris’ in Rotterdam (Netherlands) offers vegetarians a surprising nine-course menu. With culinary delights without meat or fish, a delight for the vegetarian taste buds. Chef Floris Versluijs plays with acids, structures and contrasts. The restaurants also offers a menu with fish and meat.
The magazine DER FEINSCHMECKER launched a new restaurant app with the best restaurants of Germany. The app is always actual: openings, closings and for example the switches of chefs are updated daily.
If you’re looking for a job in the hospitality branch in the Netherlands, download the app from ‘Werkenindehoreca.nl’ and receive all jobs on your mobile phone. Available for iPhone and Android.
American top chef Grand Achatz has made a new movie. We came across it on the Twitter from Gastronomixs. We would love to go and eat at his restaurant whenever we visit Chicago. See also other clips as – Course comprised of 86 individual components – and – edible helium balloon.
Gastronomic safaris by boat, walks in Nordic Noir Copenhagen, concerts in warehouses and pop-up restaurants. All this during the Wondercool festival – Copenhagen’s cultural month of February. It’s a festival of music, art, food, design, architecture and fashion.
KRNWTR thinks it’s time for an app that maps tap water in the hospitality branch. Still you can’t order a glass of tap water everywhere. With this app you can see where they serve tap water and where they don’t. You can indicate where you’ve got tap water as well. Through crowd funding KRNWRT is trying to realize this app. You can invest from €2,50. Look here for more information.
Women-only venues in the big cities are rising. Bar/restaurant SofaKingcool in London will become “women-only” themed and is renamed to KC’z Bar from February 1st onwards. Networking is the main purpose, but also the demand for an after work hangout place. It’s by women for women and it’s not just for gay women.
McDonald’s in Australia, better known as Macca’s, introduced a new iPhone app. With the app ‘TrackMyMacca’s’ the guest can see where the ingredients originate from and what happens before they are served. Another example of transparency at McDonald’s. In Canada they’ve created a YouTube movie about the difference between the hamburger in an ad and in your own box. There is also a ‘behind the scenes‘ about the French fries.
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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With these stickers everyone can put their own character/mood on a winebottle. With the stickers attached, each bottle literally has his own face.
Especially for those parents who frequently have to take their child on their lap when there’s no chair, a foldable cardboard chair is designed. The flat package can be unfolded after which a complete chair, including strap arises.
Restaurant Linnen, Oisterwijk, the Netherlands, now serves edible Lego blocks of chocolate. They are served with the tea of Betjeman and Barton and the coffee from Buscaglione. Available in 5 different types of Lego-blocks.
This bag allows wine to be tapped into a glass. Perfect for a picnic or a day at the beach. It is easy to pour the wine into the bag and vice versa.
To promote the new grilled hamburger from McDonalds in Puerto Rico, the restaurant used projections and a smoke machine.
An air mattress in the pool has been around for years. But a real bed, with sun protection that can be comfortable for two people is surely something new.
These Hollywood inspired theabags are very striking. A true “teaparty” will be cheered up by these five Hollywood stars. Available with Mr. T, Pamela Anderson, Don Perry, Jen and Vicious Will.
This automatic beater does all the work for you. You put the beater in the sauce or soup and with the touch of a button its all whipped.
Ice cubes in the form of high heels. This ‘Tipsy Toes’ are safe to drink and are 1.75 x 0.25 x 2 inches.
Boom Boom printed 26 good deeds on small cards (for example buy a cup of coffee for a stranger). The idea is to pass these cards to friends or strangers. Through the site, people can share their experiences through pictures and videos. The card can also be followed through the site to track how many times the card is forwarded.
The American manufacturer XAN launched a chocolate collection called ‘Jewel’. This chocolates have the form of crystals and are available in sets of 5, 7 and 12 flavors.
The website of Eggwatchers shows how long to boil an egg and in the meantime find a small movie that lasts just as long as the required cooking time.
Recently the only ice hotel in North-America opened in Canada. 15,000 tons of snow and 500 tons of ice were needed to build the Ice Hotel in Quebec. The hotel has 36 rooms and is only open until April.
With this temporary tattoo you can put all the things you absolutely can’t forget on any part of your body.
The city of Rotterdam has recently received the innovation award for public services for the project ‘Verlaatje by SMS’. This project gives clubowners the ability to quickly and easily request exemption from the curfew via textmessages. Businessowners may request to their company to keep open until 06:00 ten times a year via textmessages, instead of a written permision two weeks in advance.
‘Relay Rides’ calls itself as the first company which offers “person-to-person car-sharing offers. The website allows people with cars to earn money by lending it to other people. Car owners may register through the website, then a mechanic will install a chip so that tenants can easily borrow the car keys without having to ask. Through the website, the carowner can publish what days and at what times tha car can be rented.
Ikea has found a very clever way to publishe their new catalog. In a number of cinemas promotion teams projected the names and prices of IKEA products on screen. This happened two or three times in each movie, next to George Clooney and Cynthia Nixon (SATC). During the credits there was a referral to the IKEA catalog, which was also distributed afterwards.
It’s expected that the world will change drastically in the future because of high waters. Architecture will therefore adapt to more sustainable, eco-friendly and will have more focus on saving energy. There may be green walls and floating buildings within futuristic designs. Some pictures above have been approved for construction, others however will never happen.
Last year for Christmas design agency Buddy launched a special marketing campaign. Not only did clients receive a bottle of wine with the best Christmas wishes, the bottle shows how the Christmas joy increases by the glass. Not only usefull for Christmas …
With this design, the Danish kitchenbrand Starwood clearly states that they are socially responsible and that their products are produced and made of natural materials.
Académie Wines launched wines especially made for cooking. There are four different wines to match with meat, poultry or fish. The wines are made in California and are also nice to drink.
This stand alone fireplace by Vauni Fri is ‘bio-fueled’. It does not need to be installed and is therefore a mobile device. The fireplace is available in black or white with a low or high rate and can be rotated 360 degrees.
This tea-submarine is inspired by the famous Yellow Submarine-song by The Beatles. The submarine is suitable to make fresh tea. Dishwasher safe …
Handy kitchen utensils: a ladle that can also be used as a pencil. While cooking, you can easliy make notes.
Ticings helps amateur bakers to professionally decorate their cupcakes, brownies and cakes. With special layers that can be put on top of the glaze, you can make the most beautiful decorations. The ticings are available in various shapes and sizes. They are also kosher and glutenfree.
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