Restaurant ShakShuk in Amsterdam made a special dish for Earth Day

22-4-2022

Especially for Earth Day (April 22), ShakShuk, a shakshuka restaurant on the Zuidas  in Amsterdam, developed a new dish in collaboration with Beyond Meat: Spicy Beyond Merguez. The spicy sausages in this dish are normally made from animal meat, but ShakShuk replaced them with sustainable, plant-based Beyond Sausage. The new dish will be launched with a special promotion on Earth Day and will remain on the menu for a month.

Spicy Beyond Merguez is being introduced with a special promotion: ShakShuk is offering 100 dishes for free on April 22 to celebrate Earth Day. Restaurant-goers can make reservations for this through ShakShuk.

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New Flagship Venice Location for Honeybee Burger opens on Earthday

22-4-2022

Today is Earthday and the day that Honeybee Burger Inc. opens its new flagship location at 326 Lincoln Boulevard in Venice, California. A great day to open a plant-based burger chain!

Honeybee plans to announce various special items and launches in celebration of Earth Day, including the QSR debut of the world’s first bio-identical vegan honey from Meli-Bio, about which we recently wrote in our ‘trends we spotted week 14‘ and the Los Angeles debut of Ripple soft-serve, which will be featured in Honeybee’s popular shake program.

Recently we also spotted the vegan Plant Power Fast Food chain in the USA, we wonder when chains like this will find their way into Europe.

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A vegan, Japanese-inspired dining experience | Omakaseed at Plant Bar

21-4-2022

Omakaseed at Plant Bar, a plant-based omakase dining experience set to open in New York City’s NoMad neighborhood on April 30, will bring global flavors and fresh plant-based ingredients to New Yorkers and visitors from around the world. The unique dining experience is launched in partnership with SimpleVenue, an experiential agency connecting food and beverage concepts with world class venues, and Vegan Warrior Project, an organization that helps restaurants maximize their kitchen capacity by connecting them to plant-based delivery concepts. The Japanese-inspired service will feature an eight-seat sushi bar with five seatings per night, and an omakase menu curated by the Chef based on seasonal, fresh ingredients.

For those who are looking for Vegan dining experiences in New York: a new concept to put on your to-go-to-wish list.

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Life Fire Cooking’ at restaurant Nela in Valley Amsterdam

21-4-2022

This summer, restaurant Nela will open its doors in Valley, the sustainable and innovative building, on the Zuidas in Amsterdam. In this new hospitality formula of the internationally renowned chefs Hari Shetty and Ori Geller, they have chosen ‘Life Fire Cooking’. The name Nela means pure and this is exactly what the two chefs want to reflect in all aspects of their restaurant. From pure gastronomy, which involves cooking on an open fire with the very best and honest ingredients, to the design which is made from natural and unprocessed materials in their purest form. And all this is aimed at connecting people, cultures and traditions.

Currently they are still recruiting staff!

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Ghost kitchen chain Casper from Belgium is going to expand to the Netherlands

20-4-2022

Casper, the fast-growing ghost kitchen chain in Belgium, announced it has raised €5 million in a Series A financing led by Amsterdam-based Slingshot Ventures, in partnership with serial entrepreneurs Zhong Xu & Jan Hollez (Deliverect) and Jürgen Ingels (Smartfin).

With this injection Casper will expand to various locations in the Netherlands (The Hague, Rotterdam, Eindhoven and Utrecht), France (Lille) in the third quarter of this year and Luxembourg will follow in the fourth quarter. As of Q2 2024, Casper aims to have 50 international locations.

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citizenM begins building a hotel in the Metaverse

19-4-2022

citizenM, the pioneer of affordable luxury hotels recently announced it will acquire a LAND site in The Sandbox, a leading decentralized gaming virtual world and a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, to begin building a hotel in the Metaverse. This endeavor signifies a new movement in hospitality, as citizenM will be the first ever hotel group to purchase LAND in The Sandbox.

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Trends we spotted | Week 15

15-4-2022

At horecatrends.com we spot many national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write about, the other trends we use in our weekly column ‘Trends we spotted this week’.

With this week links to articles about amongst others the CookRight Coffee product line, the coffee robot that Miso Robotics is testing at stores of Panera. And the mobil ordering platform for the food industry Choco connects restaurant kitchens directly with suppliers to more easily order and manage their inventory.

Here in the Netherlands the world horticultural exhibition Floriade Expo 2022 opened and it’s located near the city of Almere where you will be able to enjoy a terraces festival. And in the south a tulip mosaic of a wine bottle and wine glass is in full bloom at the gardens of Terworm Castle.

The supermarket chain REWE’s in Germany brings with their unmanned concept ‘nahkauf BOX’ or ‘walk in store’ fresh groceries to rural Germany. And Walt Disney World in Florida earmarks 80 acres for new affordable housing development for staff and the general public.

Accor is enhancing it loyalty program All-Accor live limitless with a new range of experiences in partnership with Fever, the leading global live-entertainment discovery platform. And Hilton’s lifestyle category hotels pipeline is expected to more than double over the next decade.

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P.Pole Pizza serves skate-board shaped pizza

15-4-2022

P.Pole Pizza in Miami serves dynamic freestyle pizza in the shape of a skate-board! And they put your pizza passion to the test as you create your own pie to please your taste buds. Their reimagined pizza is the answer to finding pies which cater to gluten free and organic tastes with a vast array of flavors and options. They recently opened a new restaurant at 701 Washington Avenue in South Beach Miami just steps away from the ocean and sand.

We love the idea of the skate-board shaped pizza and the fact that the guests can freestyle their own pizza, there are three choices of dough, plus five sauces and over 30 toppings to choose from! As they say, it’s not your old-school pizzeria.

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Orancello by De Jongens van Oud West | The alternative to limoncello

14-4-2022

Orancello is made with orange peels instead of lemon peels, resulting in a fresh-sweet liqueur that is perfect for cozy evenings or as a drink in the sun. The orancello of De Jongens van Oud West is characterized by quality and an accessible character.

In this article a recipe for Oud West Finest, a cocktail with orancello and a link to recipes for an Orancello Cosmopolitan, an Oud West orange mimosa and a Mister Orange.

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HOLYSHOT Ginger Turmeric Pineapple | The golden spice

14-4-2022

HOLYSHOT expands its range of organic juice shots with a new 0.75L bottle with as taste Ginger Turmeric Pineapple. Are you looking for an easy way to enjoy a delicious juice shot every day? Then try this HOLYSHOT Ginger Turmeric Pineapple. It gives you a refreshing and delicious boost with a subtle ginger kick, perfect for any time of day!

The pure nature, healthy shots are becoming more and more popular and we are seeing them more and more in coffee shops and breakfast and lunch restaurants! We tasted this organic drink packed with vitamins and without added sugars and almost everybody said that it tasted healthy with a fresh acidity and slightly bitter aftertaste!  

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