The seasonal menu trends toward Italian.
It featured a broad spectrum of speakers on topics including health, sustainability, portion sizes, menu trends, sugar-sweetened beverages, chefs as leaders of change, technology and innovation, and changing demographics and consumer demands.
Meanwhile, the National Restaurant Association predicts that unconventional cuts of meat, such as oyster steaks or Merlot cut steaks, will be a key menu trend in 2017.
According to the National Restaurant Association, chefs increasingly used local ingredients throughout 2011 and ranked locally sourced meats and seafood the #1 menu trend for 2012, ranking locally grown produce #2, and hyper-local #4.
His menu includes little red and green color-coded ampersands indicating which dishes are "most popular" and which are "most popular after the most popular". The success of Mr & Mrs Bund has inspired other Western-style restaurants in Shanghai to embrace the concept of family-style ordering, Pairet said, but he's not expecting the big-menu trend to catch on overseas.
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Vegetable-forward menus are trending.
Swine, a pork-based place at 531 Hudson Street in the West Village, is one of those establishments that pack a full menu of gastronomic trends into a fashionably monosyllabic name.
The Dog House & Diner on Shaftesbury Avenue in London will, according to reports, serve an "on-trend menu of hot dogs, burgers and ribs".
The ground-floor bar has a happy hour and Decandente, the onsite restaurant, draws as many locals as guests with its modern Portuguese menu and on-trend design.
Expected to make its debut any day now, the second dining room, a mere elevator descent from Kinship, will feature a salon for drinks and a $200 tasting menu — per the trend, service included.
