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Famous art works replicated out of smarties
Filed under: Openings, British Isles, Candy 
I just love it when food and art overlap. Food artist Prudence Emma Staite has created a collection of works that recreate famous paintings out of chocolate Smarties. There's a wide range, from Pop Art to some more classical works.
The collection is showing at the Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood in east London on Friday. It's all part of the Smartie Art Exhibit, which is celebrating the return of the blue Smartie.
Do you think Nestle would sponsor an exhibition...
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What would you paint on a tortilla?
Filed under: Openings, America 
Mom said, "Don't play with your food," but I don't recall her saying, "Don't paint on your food." She probably thought it wouldn't come up - little did she know. According to their Flickr site, The Great Tortilla Conspiracy is an art show that uses tortillas as a canvas to "raise issues related to identity, immigration, miracle tortilla apparitions, the high price of tortillas in Mexico, and the rise of Transgenic Corn". The tortilla art exhibit runs through April 23th at San Fransisco's SomArts Bay Gallery. It features a tortilla hall of fame with portraits of artists and community leaders on tortillas. What a "corny" honor to be...
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Good news, Washington Nationals fans!
Filed under: Openings, Newspapers  No more smuggling outside food into the stadium, because at the new Nationals baseball park, they're letting you bring your own food to the game, no questions asked.
Unlike neighboring RFK Stadium, the current home of the Nats, fans can tote in their own sandwiches and sodas instead of paying an arm and a leg for them at the stadium.
Nationals spokeswoman Chartese Burnett was quoted in a WTOPNews piece as saying, "I don't know who's going to want to bring in food with all the great offerings at Nationals park."
Gee, I dunno, Chartese - maybe people who don't want to shell...
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McDonald's does delivery...in China
Filed under: Openings, Restaurants, Business, Asia  Have you ever had a craving for a nice Big Mac and those tasty french fries, but were too busy to go to McDonald's (or its drive though)? If you live in Shanghai, China then you don't have to wait much longer. The Big Mac giant will soon be taking orders for delivery.
In an effort to compete with Yum! Brands', which has twice as many restaurants in China (Pizza Hut, KFC), McDonald's in Shanghai has been building up a supply of 300 scooters. That will help the...
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Craft opening in LA tomorrow
Filed under: Openings, West Coast, Restaurants, America 
I've been waaaaiting.
And now the day is here. The LA outpost of Craft is finally opening tomorrow! The restaurant is at 10100 Constellation Blvd (between Century Park East and Avenue of the Stars), Century City.
For those of us who may not be familiar, Craft is the restaurant by chef-owner Tom Colicchio, yes, that Tom Colicchio with whom you might be more familiar if you watch Top Chef. Chef Colicchio has been honored by the James Beard Foundation (Best New Restaurant 2002).
And yes, yes y'all, I scored a reservation...
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Is it a curious fork? Or a furious cork?
Filed under: Openings, On the Blogs, New Products  While it's not all that nice to be a tease by saying "There's something cool you don't know about, and we're not going to tell you...yet," I couldn't help but bring Curious Fork to our attention.
The website is all of one page. It only has a small form to sign up to be "part of the wildest thing to hit the culinary world." I am quite sure that this is going to be some sort of foray into web 2.0 with a food-focused social network. More than anything though, I love the...
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A new chef in Chicago
Filed under: Openings, Restaurants, Midwest Cities  Chicago is turning into quite the dining mecca these days - although fans of the city will certainly say that it has always been a source of good eats - with excellent options at all levels, from the comfort of deep-dish pizza to highly innovative molecular gastronomy concepts. A new face is about to enter the dining scene there, bringing something to the dining scene that London, Las Vegas, Tokyo, New York and several other cities already enjoy: L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon. Joel Robuchon, who is (arguably) one of the greatest chefs of our time, will be opening the seventh L'Atelier later this...
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Make and take meal assembly stores
Filed under: Openings, Dinner, Trends, Stores & Shopping, How To, Did you know?, New Products, America  Make and take meal assembly stores are on the up-rise with dozens of chains, franchises, and stand alone stores around the country. These are basically commercial kitchens with changing monthly menus where you pay a fee and they supply the food and recipes.You assemble the dish and they cook it for you, and/or chill or freeze it so you can take them home. During the next week or two you can heat them up for your families dinner as a fast, healthy, and tasty...
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Gordon Ramsay is going to open a chain of pubs
Filed under: Openings, Beer, British Isles, Restaurants, Business, Television/Film, Cocktails, Trends, America, Europe  What is happeneing here?
He's an acclaimed chef in Britain with seven Michelin stars, and yet he has gone the way of many chefpires (chef-empires) - television shows, restaurants in Hollywood and all over the world opening at breakneck speed, and now comes to this? Gordon Ramsay will be opening a chain of pubs. Is Gordon Ramsay going the way of...TGI Friday's?!? Ramsay's business managers are making big plans to acquire and license to country inns that would sell...
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Using the new Netscape from a Slashfoodie perspective
Filed under: Openings, South America, Science, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, On the Blogs, Northern Africa, Central Africa, New Zealand, Middle East, New Products, America, Europe, North America  We've mentioned the new Netscape here on Slashfood before. In case you haven't heard, what used to be an alternative web browser to Internet Explorer, netscape.com, got an extreme makeover in mid-June and has become a social bookmarking site, similar to del.icio.us, digg (technology) or flickr (photos), but for news. In case you're not...
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