The sizzling summer is still with us and, whether you run a kitchen in a café, bar or eatery, there’s no doubt the warmer months will have meant a change of menu to feature lighter, brighter fare.
The warmer months offer the chance to showcase new dishes and tap into current food trends as well, with diners keen to try new things – and to display the ones they love on social media.
Even as we head into autumn, it can be a chance to keep some of those favourites firmly in place on the specials board. After all, if you have a beautiful-looking dish that promises as much colour as it does flavour, you’re ticking all the vital boxes in today’s Insta-hungry environment.
While summery salads and barbecue spreads are a fixture each year, few new trends have been as popular this time around as plant-based burgers and other meat-free alternatives. The once niche plant-based industry is now worth $180 million.
You could even try combining the trendy with the traditional, with the likes of a vegan-chicken salad or soba noodles with plant-based beef. Customers are increasingly conscious of their health and well-being, and plant-based dishes are only set to become more popular.
To showcase these exciting new offerings, you need crockery that will both elevate and inspire. Enter the Crème Renoir range, a collection of pure white dishware that will serve as the ideal backdrop for the choicest seasonal food.
It’s no coincidence that it was the artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir who provided the inspiration for the range. The name of this magazine could be the very word to sum up the French Impressionist: flair. In his use of vibrant colour and bustling scenes, Renoir showed it in spades, as he did when, at just 13, he started out as an artist in a porcelain factory adding intricate decorations to plates. (His A Garden in Montmartre is pictured)
The Renoir range needs no decoration, relying instead on its swooping lines, smooth centres and classic coupe shapes. Stylish and uncluttered, beautiful Crème crockery allows you to paint the perfect picture with your food – serve up a dash of that summery colour and it will simply jump off the plate.
