Driving Barista App | Driving safe in traffic
3-10-2016
Driving Barista is a new app that encourages Japanese motorists to put their phones down as they drive. Drives who don’t check their phones will be rewarded with a cup of free coffee. The app is activated when a person flips their phone over and begins driving, once the first 100km has been driven they receive a coupon for a free coffee. The counter will reset to zero kilometres at the moment the phone is lifted. After the first 100km the free coffee vouchers can be deserved every 200km.
Trends we spotted this week – week 39
30-9-2016
At Horecatrends we spot a lot of national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write articles about, the smaller trends we use in our column ‘Trends we spotted this week’. This week among others a unicorn café in Bangkok and feed the one in need by deleting a Instagram picture.
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#MGravityRoom
30-9-2016
The luxury hotel Marriott at Brooklyn Bridge in New York, invites visitors to snap pictures of their inverted replica of a guest room. The pictures are shared on social media with the hashtag #MGravityRoom.
Which burger wins Clinton’s Hilly Billy Burger or The Trump tower at the Hudson’s USA Burger Elections?
30-9-2016
Hudson Bar & Kitchen, known for its American cuisine, has created its own battle, the Hudson’s USA Burger Elections. The burger fanatics can choose between The Trump Tower, a high triple burger with two beef patties and crispy rosti or the Hilly Billy Chicken Burger, a healthy chicken burger with a spicy twist.
Kola House – PepsiCo’s first restaurant opened in New York
29-9-2016
Last weekend PepsiCo opened the company’s first-ever restaurant, the Kola House, in Manhattan across from the popular and trendy Chelsea Market. Although we only know PepsiCo from their tins and bottles cola and snacks, the restaurant isn’t completely what you would expect. The Kola House serves American shareables with global influences by executive chef Jon Feshan and an innovative cocktail menu by resident flavour chemist Alex Ott. The kola nut is one of the main ingredients of the cuisine and the cocktails.
Cannabis in the Netherlands | impact on the hospitality industry
28-9-2016
Extensively in the news last week, the legal production of cannabis. Is the legalization of the production finally happening after years of tolerating? And does this mean that on the long term the use will be legal as well? What does this mean for the hospitality industry? In any case, the use of cannabis will be trendy for a while and new cannabis products will appear on the market. We looked at what restaurants and other producers in America have created around cannabis since it has been legalized for some time now in various states. Below a list with examples of “the impact of cannabis on the hospitality industry.”
Instagram trend | #coffeeinacone
27-9-2016
Latte art to perfection, cappuccino served in a cone! Dayne Levinrad works at The Grind Coffee Company in Johannesburg (South Africa). He developed one of the Instagram trends of the moment: coffee in a cone. We already wrote about it in our ‘trends we spotted this week (21)‘ but when we made a round-up of all the ice-cream trends we spotted this summer we thought this trend deserved its own article.
Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream serves black ice
27-9-2016
Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream has introduced a new flavour which is totally black. After months filled with colourful products (check out Instagram: #rainbowfoodtrend) Morgenstern’s decided to introduce something opposite: black ice cream.
TAIYAKI NYC, serves Japanese ice cream
26-9-2016
TAIYAKI, a Japanese ice cream shop opened this month in New York City at Baxter Street. Long lines outside the shop to try this Japanese ice cream served in the fish-shaped waffles.
Inspiration session Wellness
23-9-2016
Bram Kosterink and David Maartense gave an inspiration session last month about the Wellness industry. The presentation focused on the latest trends and developments within the Wellness industry. The presentation was given at ROC Mondriaan in The Hague.
Trends we spotted this week – week 38
23-9-2016
At Horecatrends we spot a lot of national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write articles about, the smaller trends we use in our column ‘Trends we spotted this week’. This week among others, Streethacker a new app and Print a Drink, 3D printing hits the cocktail scene.
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Chef Schilo | wasabi as Taiko ingredient of the year
23-9-2016
The Asian restaurant Taiko of the Conservatorium hotel in Amsterdam has presented a new Taiko ingredient for the coming year: wasabi. Upcoming year the Japanese wasabi plant will cover a huge part of the menu.
Organic restaurant Amass shows the way in waste reduction
22-9-2016
Organic restaurant Amass in Copenhagen received the Gold Organic Certification by the Danish Ministry of the Environment. The gold guarantees that 90%-100% of all food and beverage served at this restaurant is certified organic. The Gold Organic Certification is part of the Danish Organic Action Plan 2020. Restaurant Amass is one of only two fine dining restaurants to achieve this designation in Denmark. They even teach farm-to-table to kids with their Amass Green Kids Program. Check out their Instagram account for great pictures of the food they serve, the products they use and their gardens.
Over the top luxury | dive for diamonds at the world’s most expensive safari
21-9-2016
Guests at the 5-star Ellerman House in South Africa can book a real diamond safari at this hotel. In collaboration with Benguela Diamonds they organize a safari at which you can dive for your own diamond. It’s not cheap, the world’s most expensive safari will cost more than € 14,000, =. This price excludes any diamonds purchased and jewellery designed while on the safari.
Sushiburri Toronto | sushi burrito’s
20-9-2016
Sushiburri Toronto is a Toronto based food truck specialized in sushi burritos. The truck offers a variety of freshly rolled burrito sized sushi rolls including spicy salmon, lobster and chicken. In addition to sushi burritos, the truck also serves poke salads and yakitori.
Magic Cake
20-9-2016
Recently all over the internet: Magic Cake. We spotted it on Instagram, Facebook and even The Telegraph wrote an article about the miraculous recipe that make three cakes in one! The cake is made of the typical cake batter ingredients (sugar, butter, flour, milk and eggs). The egg yolk, flour, milk and butter are prepared separate from the egg whites and combined right before the unique baking process at low temperatures. Creating a three layered Magic Cake. With a spongy top, a custardy middle layer and a moisty cake base. Although we think that these kind of cakes have been made for years we couldn’t resist making one and try it! One word: delicious!
Marathon du Medoc | the marathon for foodies!
19-9-2016
The 10th of September the Marathon du Medoc took place in the Medoc, near Bordeaux, France. We heard about this Marathon years ago, from that moment on (it must have been more than 20 years ago) I challenged my colleagues to run this French marathon. At that time they were not able yet to run in New York, Paris or London but choose another marathon destination. By now most of them are be able to say: London, been there, New York, done that. Check out the impression restaurant Le Saint Julien made of the marathon this year. I will be watching and toasting wine with the colleagues that do the run, this is the only marathon where you can pull a cork and a muscle.
Trends we spotted this week – week 37
16-9-2016
At Horecatrends we spot a lot of national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write articles about, the smaller trends we use in our column ‘Trends we spotted this week’. This week among others, a solid golden toilet and an urban bathhouse made of shipping containers.
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Free croquettes on FEBO’s birthday
15-9-2016
FEBO turned 75 years today and therefore decided to give away 75.000 free croquettes. And as FEBO wants their snacks to be accessible for everyone, a temporary location opened today on one of the canals in Amsterdam. Croquette lovers can pick up a ‘partycroquette’ today at both the Drive In as the various locations of the company.
First 3D printed building in Europe
14-9-2016
The first 3D printed building of Europe will be printed next year at ‘De Slaapfabriek’ in Teuge. The idea is designed during the Dutch Construction Hackathon by Bouwend en Innovatief Nederland. The goal is to create a special meeting venue, one that ‘matters’.
Egloo | warms the room for a few cents
13-9-2016
Egloo launches electricity-free heater that warms up the room for just a few cents a day.
The Egloo, a cool little heater that uses a simple concept which heats the room for just a couple of cents a day – without the use of electricity. Egloo is the new way of dealing with lower temperatures. The Egloo keeps rooms warm without the expensive costs of using gas or electricity whereby you have to heat the entire house.
The Chork | chopstick and fork in one
12-9-2016
Most kids will be very happy with these new chopsticks, the Chorks. Just remember how hard it was to eat with old fashioned chopsticks for the first time. Adults will sometimes experiencing the same problems, but now we have The Chork; a fork on one site and chopsticks on the other side.
Trends we spotted this week – week 36
9-9-2016
At Horecatrends we spot a lot of national and international trends on a daily basis. We pick the most interesting ones to write articles about, the smaller trends we use in our column ‘Trends we spotted this week’. This week among others a small gesture at Van der Valk Harderwijk, stay the night at a bee-hotel, meatless hamburgers and Ikea launches a DIY pop-up restaurant in London.
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Salina Turda | From old saltmine into amusement park
9-9-2016
Last month we wrote about the newest and biggest indoor park in the world which opened on the 31st of August in Dubai. Nowadays we have so many developments, it could happen that ‘elderly’ amusements park are overlooked. Recently we came up with Salina Turda, an amusements park opened in 1992 located in a historical salt mine in Romania. One of the oldest saltmines in the world includes a small amphitheatre, bowling courts, boats and even a ferris-wheel.
The rainbow food trend in latte art
8-9-2016
We’re following a couple USA based trend websites and they’re all showing the rainbow food trend. Because we’re not particular fond of the food colouring business, we never wrote about all those normal everyday foods that are popping up in rainbow colours. But although we don’t fancy drinking it, we have to admit some people are making great colourful latte art. We wonder when we’re going to get our first colourful coffee latte!
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