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Humans bite back: Japanese restaurant serves gourmet fried piranha

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Food and Packaging on Thursday 2 May 2013

Piranhas are some of the most vicious little creatures in the animal kingdom. They may be small, but we shiver at the idea of swimming in the Amazon River and feeling one nibble on our toes. The killer fish can strip something as big as a cow to its bones in a matter of minutes. But now [...]

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Rothko: a new restaurant in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Didu Losso Contributor

By Didu Losso in New Food and Packaging on Wednesday 1 May 2013

Rothko is a São Paulo restaurant inspired by the paintings of Mark Rothko and the passion for gastronomy of Diego Belda. From the rock clubs he owned, Casa Belfiore and CBBAR, to a unique restaurant in the heart of São Paulo’s nightlife, Belda is also a painter but in parallel discovered the world of gastronomy [...]

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Modern art made edible by Caitlin Freeman

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Tuesday 23 April 2013

Thanks to the always excellent Brain Pickings by Maria Popova, we’ve just discovered the edible modern art-inspired desserts of Caitlin Freeman. The Mondrian cake is incredibly fetching.

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Edible Spoon by Triangle Tree

Michelle Wilding Reader Find

By Michelle Wilding in New Food and Packaging on Monday 15 April 2013

Check out this neat edible spoon by green developmental partner Triangle Tree. It’s 100% natural made entirely of corn and organic products, replacing the need to use non-biodegradable plastic spoons. Not only can you eat a variety of meals with the spoon, but can eat it once you’re done. It’s also available in plain, spicy [...]

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Yes, there is such a thing as chocolate red wine

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Thursday 4 April 2013

What a pairing. The ChocolatRouge range of wines, which mixes up chocolate and red wine in varying levels of sweetness (Dark Red, Sweet Red and Milk Chocolate), infiltrated our consciousness recently and we haven’t stopped fantasizing about it since. Baileys addicts now have an alternative.

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Corduroy: a cafe gem in Sydney’s Surry Hills

Alana Saphin Reader Find

By Alana Saphin in New Food and Packaging on Wednesday 3 April 2013

Until recently I didn’t realize you could become a loyalist to your barista. If you’ve discovered one good coffee roaster, where’s the need to discover another, right? Wrong. I now know what it feels like to “cheat” on your barista. Corduroy is much more than your typical hole-in-the-wall espresso joint. Nestled on Foster street in [...]

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World’s first cake hotel now open in Soho

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Friday 29 March 2013

Tate & Lyle Sugars has opened the world’s first hotel using entirely cake as its building material. Fittingly called Tasting House and curated by Miss Cakehead, 14 cake artists took over 2,000 hours to bake and 900 hours to decorate the three-storey edible hotel. In the eight tasting rooms you’ll find “vanilla sponge cushions, windows [...]

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Truth Coffee in Cape Town

The Urban Grocer Contributor

By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Wednesday 27 March 2013

Smitten. That’s what we are for Cape Town’s Truth Coffee. Blame the stripped away industrial interior, the long hanging lights, the beautiful vintage detailing on the coffee bar, and the heavy wooden communal tables, anchored with piping. The ruby red stools, the pops of color, and the grand silver roasting machine help too. Through and [...]

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THE HELLO TOMORROW SERIES: Lights out, now go to sleep… we mean eat

Zac Contributor

By Zac in New Food and Packaging on Saturday 23 March 2013

The city of London is a pretty exciting place visually, so it seems almost counterproductive to dine in the dark. But that’s exactly what you’ll do at Dans le Noir? London, where you can experience the world in pitch black while blind waiters serve you your organic meal. It’s supposed to help sharpen your other senses in the meantime, so we can’t think of a better place to start training for super-sensory powers than dining in the dark. Unfortunately, the restrooms are fully lit for safety reasons, so you can’t practise there.

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THE HELLO TOMORROW SERIES: Beam what you eat onto your plates

Zac Contributor

By Zac in New Food and Packaging on Friday 22 March 2013

Finally, a menu that helps us make up our minds about what to eat. Before you even make an order at pan-Asian fusion restaurant inamo St James in London, you can poke around at its interactive menu to beam prospective eats onto your plate.

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THE HELLO TOMORROW SERIES: Dine Mile High comes to London

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Thursday 21 March 2013

Wow, imagine flying off for a short decadent getaway away without actually leaving the country. That’s the premise of Dine Mile High, which — lucky for all Londoners — touches down in mid-March to take away all the logistical pains of making it to the airport on time with your passport and boarding pass. This content series brought to you by Emirates - HELLO TOMORROW


Instead, you’ll get checked in to a glamourous weekend ‘away’ (choose from Göteborg, Beirut, Sicily and Mozambique) at a pop-up London venue with entertainment from cabin crew and DJs on board — plus, of course, cocktails, wine, four-course meals prepared by ex-Moro chef Ollie Templeton and other delightful nibbles. That’s style.

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Sal Gastronomica in São Paulo

Didu Losso Contributor

By Didu Losso in New Food and Packaging on Wednesday 13 March 2013

Sick of working in a bank, Henrique Fogaça quit his job and got a burger trailer. After that, he opened a cafe within the courtyard of an art gallery near Paulista Avenue, which is one of the most important thoroughfares of the city of São Paulo. It quickly became a charming and exclusive restaurant called [...]

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The Urban Coffee Farm and Brew Bar in Melbourne

The Urban Grocer Contributor

By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Tuesday 12 March 2013

Reason number 88790 why being in Melbourne right now would be dreamy: The Urban Coffee Farm & Brew Bar, a lush, jungle-esque plantation popping-up in the city’s center. On March 1, Melbourne launched its annual food-frenzy, the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival. This year boasts everything from the infamous world’s longest lunch to master classes from iconic [...]

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Death Star, reborn as marshmallow-flavored lollipops

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Friday 8 March 2013

It wasn’t that long ago that we were marveling at the prospect of sucking all the planets out of our solar system. Now an Etsy seller from Salt Lake City Utah is offering the Death Star as handcrafted sugar-free 5”-long marchmallow-flavored lollipops. Sweet! If you prefer not to incur the wrath of Mr Vader, try [...]

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SushiAirways in Singapore

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Monday 4 March 2013

Air travel and sushi are two things we love, but don’t necessarily picture together. So it’s pretty neat that SushiAirways boldly mashes up both. Its interiors are playfully modeled after the Douglas DC-3, an American fixed-wing aircraft that was big in the 1930s, while Jap cuisine is served by staff dressed in matching uniforms reminiscent [...]

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