London restaurant pops up in temporary country garden (butler included)

Guests visiting London's Mandarin Oriental hotel at any other time of the year will miss out on the hotel's latest dining experience: a brand-new outdoor restaurant that's open only in the...

More high-end dessert trucks

We've written on a few different occasions already about upscale ice-cream trucks aimed at grown-ups (one in Los Angeles and one in the UK), and now New Yorkers are getting in on the mobile dessert...

Homegrown vegetables, no green thumb needed

Not long ago we wrote about permaculture and Australian Permablitz's volunteer-based implementation of the concept in urban gardens around Melbourne. Now one of our spotters has come across the first...

M&M's Faces takes gravanity to another level

Back in 2003, we wrote about M&M's personalization service, which lets customers pick colours and have texts and logos printed on M&M's. As we pointed out, it's a great example of mass customization....

Urban winery & wine bar in NYC

When we first covered San Francisco-based Crushpad back in 2005, the idea of a winery in an urban centre was surprising. Crushpad has since blossomed, and now a like-minded contender on the opposite...