The brain is modeled after Inition co-founder Andy Millns’ brain, who said he had his brain scanned for a project. Inition gladly made a 3D model of it, made a latex mold for the model, filled the mold with chocolate, stuck it in the fridge for three hours, and voila! A chocolate brain was made.
Restaurant Farma Kreaton (Meat Farm in Greek) is recently opened next to Fabrica Kreaton restaurant located in the center of the city of Komotini (Greece ). The architecture and interior design of both spaces are by Minas Kosmidis. In the case of Farma Kreaton, graphic designer Yiannis Tokalatsidis created the minimalist, hand-drawn graphics and cut-outs of cows, chickens and the scenery of the countryside, which indicate the work done and to-be done on the farm. The food served is typical Greek meat-based.
Figures from meal service just-eat.nl shows that people order more during the big sport events. Therefore, artists created from pizza ingredients pizza’s of soccer-players of the Dutch nation team, specially for the European Championship.
The two Dutch friends Tesuro Mivazaki and Tom Niekamp started a social action for serving tap water, in the hospitality industry by creating drinking bottles, carafes and coolers.
Unpackaged was founded in 2006 by Catherine Conway in the belief that there is a better way to sell products, so the customers can do the right thing, for themselves and for the environment. How it works: remember to bring your containers from home (if you forget these, you can buy reusable containers there), weigh your containers at the counter then choose the product & amount you want, take your goods home & enjoy. You can bring in the Unpackaged shop glass jars, tupperware, old takeaway cartons, brown paper bags, plastic bags, old packaging. Good for the environment and no waste in packaging.
Ushuaïa Ibiza Beach Hotel uses all kind of modern techniques to facilitate their modern guests. August 2011 they were one of the first hotels to introduce RFID technique to facilitate easy acces to the Facebookpages of their guests. Now they have rolled out a biometric system of payments utilising PayTouch.
This natural juice consists of various grass trays that can be extended. The artist Kacey Wong has developed the bar to stand in, he can mix the apples and wheat for a healthy juice.
Domino’s pizza ran a campaign at their home market. They used a door-to-door guerilla strategy, placing flyers under each door (half in, half out), in a way that is seemed real oven spatulas delivering straight from the oven inside the house. From the 2000 flyers, with 10% discount for the next order, 14,5% were redeemed and overall sales increased 12%. Advertising Agency: Artplan, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
German tree house maker Baumraum has crafted luxurious cocoons for the Mendoza resort Entre Cielos. The futuristic pods are designed to be surrounded by nature, located amidst the foliage of actual vineyards.
Recently Grand Café Van Buuren opened in the city center of Leiden (The Netherlands). The interior has classical and modern elements. There are classy paintings, a cozy fireplace as well as a modern wall painting and a set of turntables. The name of the café is partly inspired by DJ Armin van Buuren.
The website smulpaapje.nl shows you restaurants in the Netherlands that have special menus for children. As a Dutch restaurantowner with special, healthy and great children menu’s, you should be mentioned on this website.
To communicate a drink-driving message to some of the heaviest drinkers on St. Patrick’s Day, the karaoke lyrics of famous Irish drinking songs carried a sobering message. As karaoke always seems like a great idea to people who’ve had a few too many, the singers unwittingly spread the message, singing an SOS to call them a taxi home. Created by Saatchi & Saatchi Frankfurt, Germany.
The ‘Rede van Dronten’ currently holds the 45th position of the Dutch café top 100. One of it’s areas has recently been renovated and transformed into ‘loungebar Tokyo’. The lights in this bar are 100% LED lights. As a result there is a significant drop in power and air-conditioning costs.
The Sablefisch (Anoplopomatidae in Latin) or Black Cod is recently introduced in Belgium at the European Seafood Exposition. Interesting blog, about this fish, by Nick Trachet at Foodlog, unfortunately in Dutch.
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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