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When Dining Rooms Upstage Menus

Posted by Lia Bulaong, February 27, 2007 at 12:34 PM

Novel Noshing: When Dining Rooms Upstage Menus by Fodor's Katie Hamlin discusses six different restaurant concepts from around the world. Most of them are old hat (kitchen tables and conveyor belt sushi, especially) but I'd love to eat at the Fukuoka branch of the Zauo, The Fishing Boat Café chain, a restaurant that has "500 seats on two giant boats "anchored" side by side in the restaurant's massive indoor pond. After casting your pole (there is one stationed by each seat) and making your catch, your fish or lobster is wisked away to the kitchen for proper cooking." (There's also a Belgian restaurant that lifts your dining table 50 meters in the air, but I'm not really one for heights.)

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Miller High Life's Century-Old Title as the "Champagne of Beers" Threatened by Krait's New Beerpagne

Posted by Nathalie Jordi, January 16, 2007 at 3:14 PM

India's Cobra Beer is looking to break into the elusive Cristal market by launching Krait Prestige Champagne Lager, a $12 bottle of beer that undergoes a second fermentation at Belgium's famous Rodenbach brewery.

"Instead of being the guy who brought cheap liquor, you are now Mr. Cutting Edge," remarks WiseBread with an astonishing lack of discernible sarcasm.

Indian beerpagne brewed in Poland, secondarily fermented in Belgium, and released to great fanfare in New York, New Jersey, and California?

I almost feel like I'm living in Blade Runner.

Okay, that's a slight exaggeration. Has anyone actually tasted this stuff?

2 Comments | Tagged: beer, champagne, Cobra, gimmicks