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

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Scorching porcelain patterns onto toast

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Products on Monday 18 March 2013

Kuniko Maeda and Mario Minale, the design duo behind Minale Maeda, basically had this Delfts toast pan and plate where they could scorch a classic porcelain pattern onto pieces of sandwich bread. Makes us really wanna eat our carbs.

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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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Ponyfish Island: Drink coffee on an island in the middle of Melbourne

Cormack O'Connor Contributor

By Cormack O'Connor in Cool Travel on Monday 11 March 2013

Ponyfish Island is hidden under the Elizabeth Street Footbridge in Melbourne and surrounded by the muddy water of the Yarra River. The island is a great place to grab a bite to eat, drink a coffee or sink a few beers. A collaboration between Grant Smillie, Jerome Borazio and Andrew Mackinnon, Ponyfish Island has an [...]

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By Lost At E Minor in New Events on Saturday 9 March 2013

Food media is everywhere. But as the chatter grows, the ability to discover truly remarkable food finds and keep your finger-on-the-pulse of what’s trending in food is lost. Enter The Urban Grocer. The Urban Grocer is for the kids building monuments with jelly in London and launching boundary-pushing collectives in Sydney. It is for the [...]

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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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Faux historic food: stuff George Washington ate, and more

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Art on Tuesday 5 March 2013

Sandy Levins has the coolest job. She makes sure the kitchens and dining rooms of historic houses and museums are well-stocked with era-appropriate replica food. For just the smokehouse of George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate, Levins was commissioned to make 70 pieces of meat out of clay, papier-mâché and plaster of Paris. That’s 70 hams, [...]

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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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Would you pay to eat soil? In Tokyo, you can

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Saturday 23 February 2013

At French restaurant Ne Quittez Pas in Tokyo, which serves up southern French cuisine with fresh seafood from Misaki, Kanagawa as well as green produce, you can also find soil in your food. It’s not of the accidental variety either. Owner-chef Toshio Tanabe, who has previously worked at Michelin-starred restaurants, recently started offering customers a [...]

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Is Cookie Melbourne’s best restaurant?

Cormack O'Connor Contributor

By Cormack O'Connor in New Food and Packaging on Thursday 21 February 2013

Cookie is one of those places. You know the type: tucked away, easy to pass by without batting an eyelash and frighteningly good. Hidden above Melbourne’s bustling Swanston street in Curtin House, Cookie takes everything you know about Thai cuisine and flips it on its head, adding a signature modern spin. If you’re looking for [...]

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Pairing food and drink with string

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Wednesday 20 February 2013

Oh, snap. Serious foodies out there who excite their taste buds by pairing food and drinks that complement each other need to direct their drool towards Kyle Dreier’s photography series, where he literally ties up food and drink with a bit of string. There’s milk and brownie, sparkling sake and tuna sushi, white wine and [...]

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Foods of a Pantone colour

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Wednesday 20 February 2013

Sometimes our eyes get so hungry, we think we can eat an entire Pantone colour. In her Pantone Food series, Belgium-based art director and photographer Alison Anselot takes a handful of seriously colourful food and lays them against their corresponding Pantone swatch colour. Now we know graphic designer code-speak for strawberry cake: 1895 C.

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Now you can inhale your favorite food and drink

Rebekah Rhoden Contributor

By Rebekah Rhoden in New Products on Wednesday 13 February 2013

Now this is what we imagined the future to be like. Le Whaf turns your favorite food or drink into an inhale-able vapor, all calorie free. It’s kind of like Willy Wonka’s chewing gum, where you can taste an entire three-course-meal without eating any actual food. Some remarkable technology is behind this little gadget, and [...]

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