Kimpton predicts these culinary and cocktail trends to be important in 2017:
Culinary trends:
- Surge in Mediterranean-inspired dishes: hummus, octopus, yogurt
- New twists on favorite childhood desserts: sundaes, frozen push-ups
- Using the "whole beast": bone marrow, chicken skin, pork neck
- "Root to leaf" use of vegetables: radish greens, carrot tops,celery root
- Lean meat options: elk, venison, ox, bison, boar, ostrich
- Spices: cardamom, cumin, turmeric
Cocktail trends:
- Culinary twist to classics to create sweet or savory variants
- South American-inspired cocktails using mezcal, cachaca,serrano chili syrup
- Use of non-meat-based fats: milk, coconut, peanut butter
- New food/drink pairings: oysters and gin, sherry and fries
- Signature cocktails developed from fermented beverages: Kombucha, ginger beer, coconut kefir
Kimpton operates 64 hotels and 89 restaurants in 33 cities, so they should know. But bear in mind that some of these trends will likely be strongly regional, and others may conflict with current health and fitness trends.
