Collaboration BISHA Hotel and Lenny Kravitz

30-11-2011

Kravitz Design Inc., lead by Lenny Kravitz, will collaborate with BISHA Hotel to envision an exclusive floor in the hotel, inspired by music, art and travels of Lenny Kravitz. In this way the BISHA Hotel hopes to set a new standard for an elegant and personal boutique hotel and to become internationally known.

Cooking in Parisian restaurants during closing hours

29-11-2011

The team of Restolib’ organizes cooking classes, cooking workshops, wine and beer tastings, cocktail workshops and children’s parties. These workshops take place in different Parisian restaurants during closing hours. A nice concept; food lovers get the chance to cook in a professional restaurant kitchen and restaurant owners will have the change to create a higher turnover by renting their restaurant.

New trendy concepts at Schiphol

29-11-2011

Dutch desinger Tjep developed three new shops in the newly refurbished Departure Lounge of Schiphol airport in Amsterdam: House of Tulips, Say Cheese and Bread!. These three concepts, a flower shop, a cheese take-away shop and a bread restaurant, sell these typical Dutch products to promote the Ducth culture. Early September the official opening of these concepts took place. Watch the project here.

From chopstick to plant

29-11-2011

Gyeongwan Koo is the creator of these ‘green’ chopsticks. These contain a seed. After using the chopstick, it can be placed into ground after which the seed in the tip of the chopstick will start to grow. After a few days a small climber plant will start to grow around the chopstick. A nice give-away promotion tool for your Asian restaurant!

Stilton cheese with gold flakes

28-11-2011

The precious Stilton cheese has been sprinkled with flakes of real gold. Slices of the cheese are sold for £60 each. The gold flaked Stilton cheese is only produced at Long Clawson Dairy in Leicestershire during the run-up to Christmas. According to the Independent “celebrities are already queuing up to get their hands on some of the swanky Stilton”. The gold flaked Stilton cheese is sold for 608 British pounds a kilo.

Eating advice based on your agenda

28-11-2011

The Dutch Food Center has developed a new app where users can receive nutrition advice based on their agenda. After the free app is downloaded, it makes a scan of the agenda based on keywords. The program will then give you specific advice and practical tips to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The Food Centre thinks that the Eat Guide app will meet the needs that people have to obtain practical information about healthy eating.

Crowd funded internet restaurant SociRant

25-11-2011

The SociRant, the worlds first restaurant that will be created with the use of Crowdfunding. The SociRant is a Social restaurant with the latest high tech features. Everything from reservation to changing the lights in the restaurant will be done via the internet. Even in the restaurant itself, everything will be arranged via the internet. See the video for more information.

ShutUpConcert

25-11-2011

Two hours of total focus on music with a ‘guide’. The initiators came up with this concept due the stress nowadays, nobody is really listening to the music anymore. During two hours the visitors will hear all kinds of genres, composers and songwriters. At the end the visitors can determine how much they will pay, depending on how much they’ve liked the show.

Global storytelling

25-11-2011

Storytelling on stage becomes more and more popular in New York. Not just watching it but also participating. People tell all about experiences in about 10 minutes to 1,5 hours. The most popular is the Risk show, this show is known for the embarrassing character. Many people tell about their sexual experiences and stories. The evenings are organized in the Netherlands by the name ‘Echt Gebeurd’.

Cook it raw

24-11-2011

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A dozen of international chefs searched for an answer to the question if ecology and gastronomy go well together. The chefs organized a challenge to compose a meal of local products, while using as little energy as possible. The result was an unprecedented, uncooked meal with the original taste of the products. ‘Cook it Raw’ takes the chefs from destination to destination, to cook with local products at each location. Nespresso, a partner with the same values, is closely involved with the project.

Innovative teacup

24-11-2011

The new Magisso Teacup, designed by Laura Bougdanos en Vesa Jääskö, has won a Red Dot award and makes tea drinking nice and simple. Thanks to the triangle bottom, it becomes easy to adjust the strength of the tea, without creating a mess. Watch the movie here for a drink instruction.

The Pizza Hero

24-11-2011

Domino’s Pizza created an app for the iPad, the Pizza Hero, to create your own pizza and to order it afterwards. User can knead the dough, spread the pizza sauce and add all preferred ingredients. The application is divided into 11 stages in which the game element is added of making it a race against the clock, prior to the order-phase of the pizza. By means of this application the ‘handmade’ aspect of Domino’s Pizza is stimulated.

Take-away menus with QR codes

24-11-2011

QR codes have been generally used to provide consumer with more information about a product or company. Now Paperlinks used these square barcodes in mobile take-away menu’s. Guests can order and pay for their food by scanning the code with their smartphone. ‘The Order Takeout’ platform has been launched this month in a few restaurants in Los Angeles.

App to recognize customers

23-11-2011

Brouha is new application that combines chip cards with mobile phone. If customers enter a store with a RFID chip embedded customer card, the entrepreneur receives a message. He can use this information to send an automatic of customized message to the shopper.

Make your own cheese

23-11-2011

Several ‘grow your own’ initiatives are seen lately. ‘Make Cheese’ developed several packages to make your own cheese. These kits contains all ingredients, equipment and recipes. The package provides an estimated 8 cheeses. At the moment there is a mozzarella and a Canadian cheese kit, other cheeses will follow soon.

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