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Restaurant food and beverage trends for 2014!

Food Trends

American restaurant consultants Baum + Whiteman have predicted twelve food and beverage trends for this year, reports Fine Dining Lovers:

1: Restaurants in Retail Stores:  restaurants will be used as a means of attracting more shoppers into malls, department stores, hotels, airports, and museums.

2: Tasting-Only Menus:  Tasting menus are increasingly replacing à la carte menus in fine dining restaurants, the diners having a more exact idea of what they are in for in terms of cost.

3: The Rise of Fine Dining Chicken (Posh Chicken):  Chicken is predicted to become as desired as a good steak when eating out, ‘cooked Sous Vide and served alongside foie gras, black mission figs or quail eggs’.

4: Out with Food Courts, In with Food Halls: Food Halls serving fine fresh foods in malls, even if more expensive, will replace the fare of fast food chains dominating shopping malls currently.

5: The Rise of Fish:  Oily fishes such as anchovies, sardines, and mackerel are increasing Continue reading →

Top eating trends for 2014

Paleo dietAmericans are consulting dietitians more than ever before, to gain nutritional information and advice about diets.  A survey conducted amongst 500 dietitians highlighted the following food trends for 2014, likely to apply locally too.  According to eTurboNews the top 14 eating trends are as follows:

1.   Anti-wheat:  wheat-reduced diets like the Paleo diet, gluten-free, or ‘wheat belly‘, is the top eating trend, despite there being no evidence that these lead to weight-loss.

2.  Ancient grains:  are popular again, despite the contradictory anti-wheat trend.

3.   Low fat: the focus on low fat diets will largely fall away.

4.   ‘MyPlate‘: this educational tool to create a healthy diet and to eat correctly is recommended to their clients by the majority of dietitians.

5.   Health:  this is an important consideration for shoppers, so much so that in-store Supermarket Continue reading →