iPad Digital Menus: Your New Interactive, Live, In-House Cooking Show3 min read
“TV channels are brimming with cooking shows,” says Ryan King of FineDiningLovers. Reporting on the Taste of London festival earlier this summer, King pointed to the number of viewers watching chef-related television programming as evidence of the growing public interest in food, especially in gourmet cuisine.
King’s assessment is further supported by the turnout at the 4-day Taste of London food festival this year, where 200,000 dishes and 30,000 glasses of wine were served to a cultural smorgasbord of 50,000 people –from curious foodies to expert gourmands — who came both to learn more about food and fine wine and to sample the gastronomic excellence of some of London’s most highly acclaimed chefs. Now, iPad digital menus let you captivate this cross-section of tasters, passionate foodies, and master diners, in your own restaurant!
iPad digital menus enable you to embed videos of the individual dishes being prepared, like chef de cuisine Yoshiharu Kaji at Felix — The Peninsula Hong Kong’s legendary and trendy restaurant and bar (see our previous blog, “The iPad handheld menu at Felix: Magic or Digital Feng Shui?”) and Executive Chef Dylan Hauge at III Forks Jacksonville, the popular steakhouse in trendy Tapestry Park (see our previous blog post, “To a Year of Wining, Dining, and iPad Digital Menus”) or use an integrated webcam to set up a live feed from the kitchen onto iPad digital menus at the restaurant tables, so guests can take a look behind the scenes in real time as they watch your chef prepare their dinner, like chef de cuisine Gregor Zimmermann has been doing since January for diplomats and business guests at the exquisite gourmet Restaurant La Terrasse in the Swiss Confederation’s official state guesthouse. (Be sure to read our previous blog post, “iPad Digital Menu Serves “High-Tech Haute Cuisine” at Bellevue Palace.”)
“[J]ust about everybody still finds them irresistible,” says Kathleen Collins, author of Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows. Cooking shows not only reflect, but shape changes in our culture and our culinary tastes; they have an almost magic, timeless quality that appeals to all ages and generations – “showing viewers not simply how to cook but how to live.” Capturing that quintessential irresistibility and timelessness is the concept behind the interactive iPad digital menus at the popular and exclusive Chefs Table at Restaurant olivé, the chic Mediterranean dining venue at 4-star Radisson Blu Hotel in St. Gallen, Switzerland, where every dish is delicately seasoned with fresh herbs grown in the hotel’s own herb garden – a garden maintained by Executive Chef Jan Brosinsky himself, and where tw-media says guests will soon be able to watch the chef de cuisine prepare their personal dining selections.
Patrons can also use the iPad digital menus at Restaurant olivé to find detailed information on each of the restaurant’s food offerings, discover product origin and ingredients, compose their individual selections from the wide range of entrees, main course, and desserts, email themselves a recipe of their ordered selection, send feedback and comments via Facebook and Twitter, search the restaurant’s extensive wine list, find recommended wine pairings, and explore the wine-growing estate.
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