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NDTV
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- NDTV
Watch: This Is One Of The World's Prettiest McDonald's Outlets, Located In Antigua Guatemala
Fast food chains are usually all about convenience, consistency and common features. Their focus is on delivering orders quickly rather than creating a beautiful ambience - and customers are aware of this and take advantage of the same. But there are some exceptions to this rule. Case in point: a McDonald's outlet located in Antigua Guatemala, which is considered one of the prettiest in the world. A recent reel offering a mini virtual tour of the establishment has gone viral, sparking many conversations. It was posted by digital creators Jocelyn Quetzaly and Jacks (@jxcksss). Also Read: This McDonald's Outlet In New Zealand Is Shaped Like An Airplane The video begins by showing us the exterior of the restaurant, and it appears to be nothing special. However, as soon as the vloggers step inside, we realise that there is definitely something unique about this McDonald's. It seems to be housed in a colonial-style building, and elements of this architectural style are seen reflected in the space. The lighting is cosy and aesthetic - a far cry from the harsh lighting usually found at fast food chains. The vloggers point out that the menu has local dishes and special offerings they have not seen at other McDonald's outlets. Although the restaurant has historical charm, it is equipped with modern amenities just like other outlets. There are self-service kiosks as well as a separate section dedicated to McCafe. The vloggers later walk to the other side of the restaurant, and we get a glimpse of its serene courtyard setting. There are fountains, flowers, and seating areas under trees. The duo in the reel are left amazed. Although not visible in this particular video, this outlet is reportedly also famous because it offers views of the Agua volcano. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jocelyn Quetzaly (@jocezaly) Here's how some Instagram users reacted to the viral video: "It really is the prettiest McDonald's." "It's so beautiful, omg." "This was dope, THANK YOU for sharing this. Will be adding it to my future travel list." "I don't eat McDonald's, but I will definitely eat at this one." "McDonald's looking like a restaurant in a fancy resort is wild." "You know what's beautiful also, eating pepian on a sidewalk made by a local..." "It's beautiful, but I keep wondering what it was that it displaced? What was there before the area got gentrified?" " McDonald's is pretty nice too." "The PRETTIEST McDonald's I've seen was in Hale'iwa, Oahu, Hawaii, omg. Tropical old school McDonald's out of a dream." "Dude, you need to visit the Imperial McDonald's in Porto, then we can talk about who's the prettiest." "The hate you are getting on this video is ridiculous. Nothing wrong with going to McDonald's. Enjoy the visit." As some people hinted in the comments, different McDonald's outlets across the globe have been called the prettiest. Another famous one is located at the Nyugati Railway Station in Budapest. Click here to read more about it.
The Advertiser
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
Of mice and Macca's: art's new meaning in old materials
A McDonald's sign blown away by wild winds and gnawed on by rodents during an epic mouse plague may seem like rubbish to most. But to emerging rural artist Clementine Belle McIntosh, the clapped-out McCafe tarpaulin banner is a vivid symbol of the tensions between consumerism and the environment. McIntosh used the advertisement in a piece called Out Of Home, adding layers of papier mache made from old copies of the Gilgandra Weekly newspaper and colour from avocado and onion skins. The four-metre tall work is the centre of her first major exhibition, Sowing and Sewing, at the Western Plains Cultural Centre in Dubbo, western NSW, until September. "I thought it was very poignant about the concepts of global and local exchange," McIntosh told AAP of the McDonald's sign. The 25-year-old's neighbour, a farmer named Doug, gave her the tarp years after he found it blown down by the roadside and used it to cover his grain store during the 2020 mouse plague. McIntosh, who returned home to the village of Gilgandra after studying fine arts, uses these kinds of discarded, found and second-hand objects to explore interactions between production, consumption and the environment. Originally a landscape painter, McIntosh changed mediums when she watched the 2019 drought brutalise the countryside. "It just got to the point where there was no vegetation, everything was dead and the colour of the landscape had disappeared," McIntosh recalled. "I remember looking down at my watercolour palette with all these bright colours and not knowing how (they) were made or how their production possibly had a negative impact on the environment that I love and care for. "It pushed me to, instead of making art about a place, start making art with a place." Her practice involves collaborations with the elements by covering the materials in dirt, leaving them in the wind or submerging them in water. McIntosh also uses food waste and organic material to create natural dyes. "It's a direct example of the environment having the last say - it's influencing everything all the time. "Art is not immune to climate change and it will erode as well if we don't look after the environment." Sowing and Sewing also examines traditional gender roles in rural Australia, using a mixture of domestic materials like fabrics and thread and agricultural items like wire and tarps. One of the works features bullet holes, which McIntosh has mended with delicate thread. "I'm superimposing the male-oriented, imposing impact on the landscape with softer female-oriented notions of care and mending," she said. "But I'm careful not to be too critical of the male-oriented impacts because there needs to be a balance. "It's about trying to figure out that balance." The exhibition is part of the HomeGround program, which supports emerging regional artists to expand their skills and work with staff in an established gallery. A McDonald's sign blown away by wild winds and gnawed on by rodents during an epic mouse plague may seem like rubbish to most. But to emerging rural artist Clementine Belle McIntosh, the clapped-out McCafe tarpaulin banner is a vivid symbol of the tensions between consumerism and the environment. McIntosh used the advertisement in a piece called Out Of Home, adding layers of papier mache made from old copies of the Gilgandra Weekly newspaper and colour from avocado and onion skins. The four-metre tall work is the centre of her first major exhibition, Sowing and Sewing, at the Western Plains Cultural Centre in Dubbo, western NSW, until September. "I thought it was very poignant about the concepts of global and local exchange," McIntosh told AAP of the McDonald's sign. The 25-year-old's neighbour, a farmer named Doug, gave her the tarp years after he found it blown down by the roadside and used it to cover his grain store during the 2020 mouse plague. McIntosh, who returned home to the village of Gilgandra after studying fine arts, uses these kinds of discarded, found and second-hand objects to explore interactions between production, consumption and the environment. Originally a landscape painter, McIntosh changed mediums when she watched the 2019 drought brutalise the countryside. "It just got to the point where there was no vegetation, everything was dead and the colour of the landscape had disappeared," McIntosh recalled. "I remember looking down at my watercolour palette with all these bright colours and not knowing how (they) were made or how their production possibly had a negative impact on the environment that I love and care for. "It pushed me to, instead of making art about a place, start making art with a place." Her practice involves collaborations with the elements by covering the materials in dirt, leaving them in the wind or submerging them in water. McIntosh also uses food waste and organic material to create natural dyes. "It's a direct example of the environment having the last say - it's influencing everything all the time. "Art is not immune to climate change and it will erode as well if we don't look after the environment." Sowing and Sewing also examines traditional gender roles in rural Australia, using a mixture of domestic materials like fabrics and thread and agricultural items like wire and tarps. One of the works features bullet holes, which McIntosh has mended with delicate thread. "I'm superimposing the male-oriented, imposing impact on the landscape with softer female-oriented notions of care and mending," she said. "But I'm careful not to be too critical of the male-oriented impacts because there needs to be a balance. "It's about trying to figure out that balance." The exhibition is part of the HomeGround program, which supports emerging regional artists to expand their skills and work with staff in an established gallery. A McDonald's sign blown away by wild winds and gnawed on by rodents during an epic mouse plague may seem like rubbish to most. But to emerging rural artist Clementine Belle McIntosh, the clapped-out McCafe tarpaulin banner is a vivid symbol of the tensions between consumerism and the environment. McIntosh used the advertisement in a piece called Out Of Home, adding layers of papier mache made from old copies of the Gilgandra Weekly newspaper and colour from avocado and onion skins. The four-metre tall work is the centre of her first major exhibition, Sowing and Sewing, at the Western Plains Cultural Centre in Dubbo, western NSW, until September. "I thought it was very poignant about the concepts of global and local exchange," McIntosh told AAP of the McDonald's sign. The 25-year-old's neighbour, a farmer named Doug, gave her the tarp years after he found it blown down by the roadside and used it to cover his grain store during the 2020 mouse plague. McIntosh, who returned home to the village of Gilgandra after studying fine arts, uses these kinds of discarded, found and second-hand objects to explore interactions between production, consumption and the environment. Originally a landscape painter, McIntosh changed mediums when she watched the 2019 drought brutalise the countryside. "It just got to the point where there was no vegetation, everything was dead and the colour of the landscape had disappeared," McIntosh recalled. "I remember looking down at my watercolour palette with all these bright colours and not knowing how (they) were made or how their production possibly had a negative impact on the environment that I love and care for. "It pushed me to, instead of making art about a place, start making art with a place." Her practice involves collaborations with the elements by covering the materials in dirt, leaving them in the wind or submerging them in water. McIntosh also uses food waste and organic material to create natural dyes. "It's a direct example of the environment having the last say - it's influencing everything all the time. "Art is not immune to climate change and it will erode as well if we don't look after the environment." Sowing and Sewing also examines traditional gender roles in rural Australia, using a mixture of domestic materials like fabrics and thread and agricultural items like wire and tarps. One of the works features bullet holes, which McIntosh has mended with delicate thread. "I'm superimposing the male-oriented, imposing impact on the landscape with softer female-oriented notions of care and mending," she said. "But I'm careful not to be too critical of the male-oriented impacts because there needs to be a balance. "It's about trying to figure out that balance." The exhibition is part of the HomeGround program, which supports emerging regional artists to expand their skills and work with staff in an established gallery. A McDonald's sign blown away by wild winds and gnawed on by rodents during an epic mouse plague may seem like rubbish to most. But to emerging rural artist Clementine Belle McIntosh, the clapped-out McCafe tarpaulin banner is a vivid symbol of the tensions between consumerism and the environment. McIntosh used the advertisement in a piece called Out Of Home, adding layers of papier mache made from old copies of the Gilgandra Weekly newspaper and colour from avocado and onion skins. The four-metre tall work is the centre of her first major exhibition, Sowing and Sewing, at the Western Plains Cultural Centre in Dubbo, western NSW, until September. "I thought it was very poignant about the concepts of global and local exchange," McIntosh told AAP of the McDonald's sign. The 25-year-old's neighbour, a farmer named Doug, gave her the tarp years after he found it blown down by the roadside and used it to cover his grain store during the 2020 mouse plague. McIntosh, who returned home to the village of Gilgandra after studying fine arts, uses these kinds of discarded, found and second-hand objects to explore interactions between production, consumption and the environment. Originally a landscape painter, McIntosh changed mediums when she watched the 2019 drought brutalise the countryside. "It just got to the point where there was no vegetation, everything was dead and the colour of the landscape had disappeared," McIntosh recalled. "I remember looking down at my watercolour palette with all these bright colours and not knowing how (they) were made or how their production possibly had a negative impact on the environment that I love and care for. "It pushed me to, instead of making art about a place, start making art with a place." Her practice involves collaborations with the elements by covering the materials in dirt, leaving them in the wind or submerging them in water. McIntosh also uses food waste and organic material to create natural dyes. "It's a direct example of the environment having the last say - it's influencing everything all the time. "Art is not immune to climate change and it will erode as well if we don't look after the environment." Sowing and Sewing also examines traditional gender roles in rural Australia, using a mixture of domestic materials like fabrics and thread and agricultural items like wire and tarps. One of the works features bullet holes, which McIntosh has mended with delicate thread. "I'm superimposing the male-oriented, imposing impact on the landscape with softer female-oriented notions of care and mending," she said. "But I'm careful not to be too critical of the male-oriented impacts because there needs to be a balance. "It's about trying to figure out that balance." The exhibition is part of the HomeGround program, which supports emerging regional artists to expand their skills and work with staff in an established gallery.
Perth Now
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Of mice and Macca's: art's new meaning in old materials
A McDonald's sign blown away by wild winds and gnawed on by rodents during an epic mouse plague may seem like rubbish to most. But to emerging rural artist Clementine Belle McIntosh, the clapped-out McCafe tarpaulin banner is a vivid symbol of the tensions between consumerism and the environment. McIntosh used the advertisement in a piece called Out Of Home, adding layers of papier mache made from old copies of the Gilgandra Weekly newspaper and colour from avocado and onion skins. The four-metre tall work is the centre of her first major exhibition, Sowing and Sewing, at the Western Plains Cultural Centre in Dubbo, western NSW, until September. "I thought it was very poignant about the concepts of global and local exchange," McIntosh told AAP of the McDonald's sign. The 25-year-old's neighbour, a farmer named Doug, gave her the tarp years after he found it blown down by the roadside and used it to cover his grain store during the 2020 mouse plague. McIntosh, who returned home to the village of Gilgandra after studying fine arts, uses these kinds of discarded, found and second-hand objects to explore interactions between production, consumption and the environment. Originally a landscape painter, McIntosh changed mediums when she watched the 2019 drought brutalise the countryside. "It just got to the point where there was no vegetation, everything was dead and the colour of the landscape had disappeared," McIntosh recalled. "I remember looking down at my watercolour palette with all these bright colours and not knowing how (they) were made or how their production possibly had a negative impact on the environment that I love and care for. "It pushed me to, instead of making art about a place, start making art with a place." Her practice involves collaborations with the elements by covering the materials in dirt, leaving them in the wind or submerging them in water. McIntosh also uses food waste and organic material to create natural dyes. "It's a direct example of the environment having the last say - it's influencing everything all the time. "Art is not immune to climate change and it will erode as well if we don't look after the environment." Sowing and Sewing also examines traditional gender roles in rural Australia, using a mixture of domestic materials like fabrics and thread and agricultural items like wire and tarps. One of the works features bullet holes, which McIntosh has mended with delicate thread. "I'm superimposing the male-oriented, imposing impact on the landscape with softer female-oriented notions of care and mending," she said. "But I'm careful not to be too critical of the male-oriented impacts because there needs to be a balance. "It's about trying to figure out that balance." The exhibition is part of the HomeGround program, which supports emerging regional artists to expand their skills and work with staff in an established gallery.
West Australian
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
Of mice and Macca's: art's new meaning in old materials
A McDonald's sign blown away by wild winds and gnawed on by rodents during an epic mouse plague may seem like rubbish to most. But to emerging rural artist Clementine Belle McIntosh, the clapped-out McCafe tarpaulin banner is a vivid symbol of the tensions between consumerism and the environment. McIntosh used the advertisement in a piece called Out Of Home, adding layers of papier mache made from old copies of the Gilgandra Weekly newspaper and colour from avocado and onion skins. The four-metre tall work is the centre of her first major exhibition, Sowing and Sewing, at the Western Plains Cultural Centre in Dubbo, western NSW, until September. "I thought it was very poignant about the concepts of global and local exchange," McIntosh told AAP of the McDonald's sign. The 25-year-old's neighbour, a farmer named Doug, gave her the tarp years after he found it blown down by the roadside and used it to cover his grain store during the 2020 mouse plague. McIntosh, who returned home to the village of Gilgandra after studying fine arts, uses these kinds of discarded, found and second-hand objects to explore interactions between production, consumption and the environment. Originally a landscape painter, McIntosh changed mediums when she watched the 2019 drought brutalise the countryside. "It just got to the point where there was no vegetation, everything was dead and the colour of the landscape had disappeared," McIntosh recalled. "I remember looking down at my watercolour palette with all these bright colours and not knowing how (they) were made or how their production possibly had a negative impact on the environment that I love and care for. "It pushed me to, instead of making art about a place, start making art with a place." Her practice involves collaborations with the elements by covering the materials in dirt, leaving them in the wind or submerging them in water. McIntosh also uses food waste and organic material to create natural dyes. "It's a direct example of the environment having the last say - it's influencing everything all the time. "Art is not immune to climate change and it will erode as well if we don't look after the environment." Sowing and Sewing also examines traditional gender roles in rural Australia, using a mixture of domestic materials like fabrics and thread and agricultural items like wire and tarps. One of the works features bullet holes, which McIntosh has mended with delicate thread. "I'm superimposing the male-oriented, imposing impact on the landscape with softer female-oriented notions of care and mending," she said. "But I'm careful not to be too critical of the male-oriented impacts because there needs to be a balance. "It's about trying to figure out that balance." The exhibition is part of the HomeGround program, which supports emerging regional artists to expand their skills and work with staff in an established gallery.
Daily Mail
30-05-2025
- Business
- Daily Mail
McDonald's Australia quietly launches new menu item
By Published: Updated: McDonald's Australia has quietly added a much-anticipated item to its McCafe menu – and it's already generating huge excitement among their customers. Some diners have already spotted the new Matcha Latte range - including the hugely popular strawberry matcha flavor - at selected stores. The fast food restaurant chain is now selling a classic Matcha Latte ($4.60), an Iced Matcha Latte ($5.20) and a trendy Iced Strawberry Matcha Latte ($6.05). When FEMAIL contacted McDonald's Australia to enquire about the new match range, a spokesperson remained tight-lipped but offered a vague confirmation. 'Seeing green? Macca's is currently trialing a special treat in select restaurants across NSW and Victoria,' the McDonald's Australia spokesperson told FEMAIL. 'While we can't confirm anything further yet… We can say: stay tuned.' Sydney food blogger Nina was one of the first to break the news on social media about the little-known Matcha range spotted at Wynyard Station. 'Guess what?! McDonald's Australia has released matcha lattes. Finally matcha available at Macca's,' Nina said in her video. Nina said she purchased a medium iced matcha with oat milk for $6.40. 'Although they use syrup, the matcha flavor was strong with no bitterness - but it was very, very sweet,' she said in her verdict. 'Not very traditional, but the sugar sure was a great pick me up in the morning. To be honest I think I'll be buying this again.' The Sydney-based foodie posted a six-second video that has already been viewed more than 750,000 times, which showed her spotting the item on an in-store menu. The video shows the McDonald's store at Wynyard Station - along with a sign confirming the matcha range won't be around for long. ''Hurry limited time,' the sign read. Nina couldn't contain her excitement, saying: 'OMG! Macca's sells Matcha!' She herself is then seen in the video holding and tasting an Iced Matcha Latte. The food content creator shared her brutally honest verdict of the drink, saying: 'On the sweeter side, but really good'. The video has already notched up over 40,000 likes, and received hundreds of comments from excited customers. 'FINALLY MY DREAMS ARE COMING TRUE,' read one excited response. But the top-liked comment expressed disbelief about whether 'this is actually true'. This warranted skepticism stems from an incident last year when a 'fake' Macca's matcha drink caused a frenzy and disappointment among customers. Last year, two Melbourne friends filmed themselves apparently ordering a 'Strawberry Matcha' from a McDonald's Drive-Thru window as part of a social media prank. The staged video quickly sparked confusion among McDonald's customers, who soon reported being unable to find the drink anywhere in stores. The misinformation about the Macca's Strawberry Matcha got so out of hand that McDonald's eventually released a statement confirming the product did not exist. In addition to the Wynyard Station, some other NSW locations where the range has quietly launched included Thornleigh, Bondi Junction, Wyong and Haberfield. In Melbourne, one fan noted that they'd seen it in the Doncaster store. Macca's fans from other major Australian cities like Perth, Brisbane and Darwin revealed they were yet to find the elusive Matcha drinks in their local store. One person who had already got their hands on the drink offered their review. 'I had the strawberry matcha and it's on the sweeter side,' read the reply. 'So like a 6/10 from me'. Matcha lattes – and in particular strawberry matcha lattes – have soared in popularity in the last few years. The trendy iced strawberry matcha lattes are understood to have originated from Asian tea specialty stores, and became prolific on social media. The striking visual appeal of iced strawberry matcha lattes is one of the reasons why the drink went viral. Matcha is known for its health benefits, with the green tea powder renowned for being rich in antioxidants. It also contains fibre, vitamin C, chromium, magnesium, selenium and zinc.
