The best restaurant of the world, Restaurant Noma in Copenhagen, with chef Rene Redzepi, shares her secrets with the rest of the world. He shows movies of several preparations of dishes, like a grasshopper sauce and now a movie how to turn ordinary plums into a fermented goodness.
These decanters of Riedel are really special. Available in several shapes and sizes which makes the wine even more beautiful. These decanters have a real wow-effect in your restaurant or on table during a dinner.
Surprise your youngest guests with a decorative dessert table in a specific theme. In this case, the Dutch ‘Sinterklaas’ is applied. On the website of ‘Gewoon Marieke’ (blog) several tips, recipes and printables are given.
Order your drinks through twitter of facebook with the Social Drinking Machine. Scan the QR-code, choose and order your favorite drink, show your receive QR-code to the machine and watch how the machine automatically prepares your drink. Watch the movie for an explanation.
Zagat released her 2013 guide to New York Restaurants, and these are the best restaurants of New York:
1. Le Bernadin – Frans restaurant van Maguy Le Coze en chef Eric Ripert
2. Per Se – met uitzicht over Central Park / with a Central Park view
3. Bouley
4. Daniel – klassiek restaurant en keuken – classical restaurant and kitchen
5. Eleven Madison Park
6. Jean George – Volgens Zagat ‘art on a plate’ / According to Zagat ‘art on a plate’
7. La Grenouille – Franse keuken / French dining
8. MAS (Farmhouse) – met een nieuw-Amerikaanse keuken / New-American cuisine
9. Sushi Yasuda
10. Sushi Seki
(Photo: Restaurant MAS)
Unfortunately not yet produced, but this would be a nice present tip; this cool cocktail shaker. Making cocktails is also very easy in use. You fill up the components, connect the components and start shaking.
In Amsterdam, a second location of the espresso bar Screaming Beans opened her doors. This location is not only focusing on the best coffee and tea, but offers as well a wide range of the best wines, accompanied with excellent food. An enormous wine cabinet is the real eye catcher of this location, which separates the kitchen of the restaurant. Screaming Beans is opened all day, 7 days a week.
Marjolijn Kamphuis of Foodzy is explaining the 10 most important trends in the food and social media industry.
1. The Rise of Niche Social Networks
2. Second Screen Everywhere
3. Content is king
4. Location is customization
5. Be your own health coach
6. Smart devices everywhere
7. Social Media charm offensive
8. Don’t waste food and money
9. Subscribe to Curation
10.Gamification
Watch the complete presentation here.
On Saturday November 17, International Club The Hague will open her doors officially. This is an informal social club for expats, and the family and friends of these internationals in The Hague, located in the former city hall at the Javastraat. International Club The Hague features a restaurant, including a chef’s table, a bar, a wine cellar, tv room, smoker’s lounge, library and a children’s room. This is (still) an official wedding location as well. Watch a short movie here about the International Club, including an interview.
At Stravinsky Eten & Drinken in Hengelo (the Netherlands) you can reload yourself, but from now your phone as well. This charging station, developed by Mobiel Bijtanken.nl, offers a place for your phone. Very clever and very hospitable!
Dutch Star chef Peter Lute says ‘Come and taste the province Noord-Holland!’ and brings back the culinary history of this province. The coming months, 9 top chefs of this province are looking for historical recipes which will be transformed to contemporary dishes. Everybody can submit their recipe which are finally bundled in a cook book. You also make a chance to win a master class of one of the chefs by sending your recipe.
The website Business Insider was searching for the best restaurants in Florence, Italy, and found these restaurants with the help of locals:
The winter is on its way, so it is almost time for the ice hotels. But which ice hotels are a ‘must-see’? The ice hotel in Québec in Canada, called Hotel de Glace, is the most famous hotel, which opens each winter since 2001. Coming winter this hotel opens its door on January 5 till March 24. In the Swedish village Jukkasjärvi, the ice hotel opens already on December 7. It features also a bar and several ice sculptures created by several artists.
Mellow Mushroom has grown to 130 stores in over 100 U.S. cities and wanted to get more followers on Twitter. The pizza chain launched a campaign ‘if you follow us, we’ll follow you’, to make a chance to win free pizza for a year. Twenty twitter followers were stalked for one week by the company’s mushroom mascot in real life.
In China, Rovio has partnered with McDonald’s to offer location-based Angry Birds games inside the fast food restaurants. For people playing on their mobile device while they eat, there are special hidden game modes and free power-ups that aren’t available anywhere else. Each location has its own Angry Birds story.
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