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2025 F&B Trends: Newstalgia, Stealth Health, and Botanical Beverages

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From salted egg yolks and chili crunch fusions to mushroom-infused teas and freeze-dried fruit powder garnishes, Kimpton’s in-house experts share the standout ingredients, menu items and techniques that will come to the table in 2025.

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How to Find the Target Market for Your Restaurant

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Understanding your target market is the foundation of making smart decisions for your menu, pricing, and overall guest experience. Without a well-defined target market, restaurants risk wasting resources on strategies that dont connect and menu offerings that dont selltrying to appeal to everyone, but standing out to no one.

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Following a Devastating Hurricane, Neng Jr.’s and Asheville Restaurants Rebuild 

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The local restaurant industry employs around 22,000 people , and tourism contributes approximately $2.9 The hurricane hit during the fall and the winter shopping season, particularly busy and profitable times of year for local businesses. View this post on Instagram A post shared by @nengjrs Neng Jr.s billion to the local economy.

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An Eater’s Guide to Whistler, British Columbia

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Tourism Whistler/Justa Jeskova. Menus brim with callouts to potatoes from the neighboring Pemberton Valley (reputedly some of the world’s best), oysters from British Columbia’s Fanny Bay and Desolation Sound, and wines from around the province. The glow of nightlife in Whistler. Prices are high and lines tend to get long, though.

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An Eater’s Guide to Visiting (and Drinking) Champagne 

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Champagne may have been slow to embrace wine tourism but if these new experiences are any indication, there is a firm commitment to making up for lost time. So far the collective efforts seem to be working. Ruinart offers guided visits and tasting followed by brunch.

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What Is Huitlacoche — And Why Aren’t U.S. Diners Eating More of It?

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The contagion is usually brought forth by annual rainy seasons and results in bulbous, blue-gray growths that deform maize kernels into Frankenstein-esque galls. Like in Aztec times, a natural bout of huitlacoche symbolizes bounty: delicious food, higher profits, and a successful harvesting season.

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Tyga Bites and Sushi with an Attitude

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“I wanted to make sure the whole menu, flavors, and even the packaging was on point,” said Tyga. ” The online menu offers crispy, oven-baked chicken bites in three different spice dusts including Black Garlic, Lemon Black Pepper, and Peri-Peri, a mix of tangy, sweet and spicy. Contest Details.