Brunch Find: Hally’s London

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A brunch visit to Hally’s in Parsons Green does a pretty good job of convincing you that you’re in California”¦ The interior is beach house-esque, with a backdrop of shabby chic white-washed walls and shelves carrying a carefully curated collection of colorful knick-knacks and accents. The beautiful Chelsea set – fresh from pilates and beach-body-ready […]

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TEAM Jenny Nguyen Founding Editor Jenny Nguyen is Melting Butter’s Founding Editor. She’s NYC based via Melbourne, London and Amsterdam. She founded Melting Butter to give the design-minded, aesthetically inclined population a quality resource for curated travel hotspots.  Her hotspot recommendations have appeared in the Vogue Living, The New York Observer, National Geographic Traveler Magazine, Domino Magazine, […]

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Cocktail Bar Find: Cahoots London

Cahoots London | meltingbutter.com Cocktail Hotspot

Kingly Court is like Soho’s food court, with every type of restaurant you could wish for. The latest addition – a bar – is doing something a little different however: an evening at Cahoots is a mind-blowingly well-executed immersive experience. Descend into the “Underground” to the sound of an old fashioned London Transport tannoy, drop […]

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Restaurant Find: Katz Orange Berlin

Katz Orange Berlin | meltingbutter.com Restaurant Hotspot

An ex-brewery in Mitte has been converted into a restaurant with striking art installations everywhere you look, creating Katz Orange, a farm to table restaurant of the highest quality. Sink into Moorish banquettes with an old school cocktail, crafted from spirits from small batch German distillers, and peruse the menu – so simple yet so […]

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Coffee + Shopping Find: Westberlin Berlin

Westberlin Cafe Berlin | meltingbutter.com Coffee Hotspot

Head towards Checkpoint Charlie, the top tourist destination in Berlin – then keep walking straight past it, dodging the tourist’s selfie sticks and hen parties’ feather boas. You are going beyond all this to somewhere far more photogenic: Westberlin, “coffeebar & mediashop”. Westberlin is totally at odds with its surroundings: sandwiched between a kitsch baroque […]

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Design Hotel Find: Das Stue Berlin

Das Stue Berlin | meltingbutter.com Design Hotel Hotspot

Das Stue Berlin is the most aesthetically pleasing amalgamation of hotel, restaurant, gym, spa and zoo ticket imaginable! It’s clear to see why it was invited to be a member of the Design Hotels group – interior design guru Patricia Urquiola has given the former Dutch embassy a super stylish update, banishing all fusty, diplomatic […]

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Restaurant Find: Bob Bob Ricard London

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Likened by one food critic to “dining inside a Fabergé egg”, Russian-owned Bob Bob Ricard is a Soho restaurant choice for when you want to make a statement. The interior (designed by the late and great David Collins, of The Ivy and The Wolseley fame) is gilded and brightly-hued but is subtly lit so as […]

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Design Hotel Find: London EDITION Hotel

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Each London Fashion Week, there’s a well-heeled stampede from the front row of the shows back to Fitzrovia’s Berners Street. It Girls, fashion bloggers and magazine editors all head for the London EDITION hotel, to dine in the glamorous Berners Tavern, sip punch in the well-hidden reservations only bar, and then cozy up under fur […]

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Restaurant Find: Merchants Tavern London

Merchants Tavern London | meltingbutter.com Restaurant Hotspot

Located just off Great Eastern Street in Shoreditch, Merchants Tavern is housed in a Victorian warehouse and former apothecary, and comprises a large restaurant, buzzing bar and private dining room. Merchants Tavern serves a Modern European menu, directed by seasonality. Upon arrival, I stood in the middle of the buzzing bar and drunk in the […]

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Restaurant Find: The Palomar London

The Palomar London | meltingbutter.com Restaurant Hotspot

It’s so refreshing when a restaurant breaks the mould to create something novel and spectacular. The Palomar opened last year on a nondescript street in London’s West End, and ticked all the boxes so completely that it was seemingly all anyone could talk about! The Palomar does have a smart restaurant area at the back, […]

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