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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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.
These shoes are handmade and designed by a chocolate expert. They come in a variety of chocolate such as leopard print, zebra print, white, dark and milk chocolate. They cost around £ 25 each.
Ten years ago the company ‘World Bike’ started with the creation of innovative bikes for people in developing countries. After 10 years their initiative has led to successes in Cuba, Mexico, Rwanda, Senegal and Thailand. The reason why ‘World Bike’ exists, they want to make it easier, faster and cheaper for people in poor countries to travel from A to B. It is possible to carry heavy items with this bike because it is made of material that barely breaks and is available worldwide.
This envorinmetal friendly kitchen was designed by Victor Massip and Laurent Lebot. The innovative cuisine is based on four pillars: waste management, healthy cooking, less energy and reducing the use of water. For example, the water, the lettuce is washed in, is reused to water the plants.
Urban and private gardens are getting increasingly popular. With Urbgarden people can create a vertical garden of herbs at home. The worm colony fertilized the earth and makes sure it’s recycled in a biological way.
On January 19th (Utrecht Central Station), January 21st (Amsterdam Central Station) and Jan 26th (The Hague Central Station) orange lunchboxes were distributed, filled with an apple and a flyer. The distribution was part of a European campaign ‘Apple. Fruit of all pleasure’ of the FruitsVegetables Office. The aim of the campaign is to create a healthy work ethics for employees.
Chicza is an organic and environmentally friendly chewing gum brand by the company Consorcio Chiclero in Mexico. The gum is completely biodegradable and is available in four different flavors.
Baking is back! The Danish Lurpak bakingbrand has created an online bakingclub. People that love to bake can sign up on the website and indicate when and what they are baking. Users can join together and organize special baking days where the results will be tasted and judged.
This pager improves the service in restaurants. When the food in the kitchen is ready, the waiter receives a signal from the pager. The food is always served on time and it may even reduce staffexpenses.
They call it the ‘Hotel of the future ‘. Research has been conducted into the possibilities of a hotel or office in a windmill. Norway looks to bet the ideal candidate because of it’s long winding coastline.
Designed by Petra Antiqua these tiles are a work of art. The travertine tiles are available in various metals such as gold, copper, silver and iron. But also in pearl, red and violet, these tiles have got a modern and traditional feel. Available in sizes: 10 x 30, 10 and 10 x 60 x 90 cm.
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