The Dutch most famous Burger

3-5-2012

McDonald’s started a co-creation campaign in the Netherlands. Consumers can create their own burger on the website. Website visitors can vote for this burger, and the burger with the most votes will become the Dutch most famous Burger. This hamburger will be sold in all Dutch locations under the name of the winner. On September the 17th the winner will be announced, the winning burger is available from 18 September.

Digital wine thermometer

3-5-2012

This digital wine thermometer looks chic on table. Besides the wine temperature, this device also suggests the ideal temperature of several wines.

Snail Caviar

2-5-2012

Dominique Pierru spent three years perfecting the Snail Caviar. Once a year each snail lays a few hundred eggs of about 4 grams in total. To produce a kilogram of snail caviar, one needs about 260 carefully selected layings.

Sergiology

2-5-2012

In May the book Sergiology is published. It is the gastronomical art-object-book of Michelin star chef Sergio Herman. The limited available book shows the sources of inspiration and creations of this Oud Sluis’ chef.

Lady Bug appetizer

2-5-2012

Not ready for a real insect snack? Try these lady bugs as appetizer!

Virtual see through wall at InterContinental Chicago

2-5-2012

The InterContinental hotel is the only hotel in Chicago with an entrance that directly leads to Michigan Avenue. To emphasize this, there is a virtual live video stream of the street behind the check-in desk.

Plus One Berlin

1-5-2012

In the Plus One Berlin Hotel you just do not only book a room, but also an inhabitant of Berlin, who shows you all the nice hot spots and gives you tips of the city. This hotel is located in the hip, not yet touristical district Kreuzkölln.

Clever cutting board

1-5-2012

Very clever cutting board! Scaling your food whilst cutting. This cutting board features a scale.

Playing chess with shot glasses

1-5-2012

A funny way of playing a game of checkers…

Sandwiches and cakes on two weels

1-5-2012

The owner of the French company Tifamade combined her two passions, good food and biking. She delivers home-made sandwiches and cake by bike. A nice idea for a summer afternoon pick nick or a party.

1 – and 2-star hotels examined

27-4-2012

Van Spronsen & Partners has examined the 1- and 2- star hotels in the Netherlands. Only available in Dutch.

Hamster Hotel

27-4-2012

In Nantes a French entrepreneur Yann Falquerho came up with a hamster hotel. In the hotel you can experience a hamster life. The hotel rooms look like a hamster cage with bed of straw, giant hamster wheels, hamster food and a fountain with only water.

Bubble lamp

27-4-2012

A bubble is brief, and bursts at your touch. But while it lasts, it catches the light and reflects the room like a multi-coloured

temporary structure. Front Design, Nacho Carbonell and Formafantasma created a bubble lamp which works for 50.000 hours. In the time it takes the LED to burn out, the lamp will have had 3 million different globe shades.

Queen’s Day inspiration: orange sushi

27-4-2012

In Rotterdam (The Netherlands) the Iizo sushi café prepares a robot to make only orange sushi for Queen’s Day. The sushi will be in orange shells made of soy or have a layer of orange fish eggs.

Hoppit, a new dining-out search engine

26-4-2012

Hoppit is the first site which provides a dining-out search engine which filters its results based on the ambience of restaurants. Based in Manhattan and currently available in 25 cities in the US, each restaurant in the Hoppit database is tagged with one of ten “vibes” or types of atmosphere. These include ‘classy & upscale’, ‘hipster’, ‘romantic’ and ‘cozy & quaint’, among others.

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