Café Find: Hyde & Son Edinburgh

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James Wise is pretty damn serious about coffee. Granted, he’s also the 2017 London Coffee Master champion and has a history with coffee (including at the now-defunct China Plate Espresso in London). And now, at the helm of Hyde & Son Edinburgh ”“ the café on the ground floor of apart-hotel Eden Locke ”“ he’s […]

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Restaurant Find: San Remo NYC

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Sometimes all you want to do is find a table to while away the day and night without having to figure out where to go next for a mealtime appropriate food and drink fix. At San Remo NYC in Nolita, we think we may have found that one-stop-shop you’ve been looking for. Here you can go […]

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Cocktail Bar Find: Lidkoeb Copenhagen

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When the owners of Ruby, Copenhagen’s most renowned cocktail institution found a free-standing, heritage listed building (once an 18th century apothecary lab) hidden in a back alley behind a supermarket, they turned it into Lidkoeb ”“ now one of the city’s most stylish watering holes. Situated in Copenhagen’s boho neighborhood Vesterbro, Lidkoeb begins with a […]

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Cocktail Bar Find: Peg + Patriot London

Peg + Patriot London | Melting Butter Cocktail Hotspot

Matt Whiley is a bit of a cocktail celeb here in London. With bars such as Talented Mr. Fox and Purl under his belt, he’s known for his experimental approach to mixology. In fact it’s common for his bars to look more like science labs, with bottles and potions bubbling and steaming behind the bar, […]

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NYC Cocktail Bar Find: The Dead Rabbit

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(This article by Jenny Nguyen first appeared in ForbesLife. Click here to read the original) The Dead Rabbit NYC gives you 72 reasons to head down to the Financial District. That’s 72 expertly crafted cocktails (by Jack McGarry who has been named international bartender of the year) and an extensive selection of thoughtfully reinvented classics […]

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The Curators: Wallflower’s Xavier Herit on Working for Daniel Boulud & NYC’s Best Cocktail Bars

The Curators: Wallflower’s Xavier Herit on Working for Daniel Boulud & NYC’s Best Cocktail Bars | meltingbutter.com

It’s hard to progress much further when your 15-year career has already been spent working for the very best. But this isn’t so for Xavier Herit, the owner/cocktail guy responsible for Wallflower, the West Village’s latest restaurant darling. Herit undoubtedly boasts an esteemed career having worked as head cocktail consultant at the world’s finest establishments […]

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London Cocktail Bar Find: Talented Mr Fox

London Cocktail Bar Find: Talented Mr Fox | meltingbutter.com

Leicester Square is the last place you’d expect to find a secluded and sophisticated cocktail bar. But, if you look hard enough, you may find Talented Mr Fox – a decadent cocktail bar frequented by in-the-know Londoners and design conscious travellers staying at the One Leicester Street Hotel (where the bar is situated). As you […]

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NYC Restaurant Find: Wallflower

NYC Restaurant Find: Wallflower | meltingbutter.com

Wallflower is a West Village neighbourhood restaurant of the slightly more refined variety. By neighbourhood restaurant I mean it’s unpretentious but there’s still a certain air of luxury here, which probably rubbed off on its co-owner Xavier Herit while he clocked seven years as head bartender at Daniel, the NYC fine dining institution. As you […]

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Cocktail Bar Find: Little Branch NYC

NYC Cocktail Bar Find: Little Branch | meltingbutter.com

Little Branch NYC is a true hidden gem in the West Village. Enter via the most peculiar looking non-descript door on 7th Avenue and descend the stairwell into a low-lit subterranean cocktail den. Inside, the bar staff wear suspenders, the jazz music is peppy and the booths are cozy and intimate. Fortunately, the bar inherits […]

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London Bar Find: Experimental Cocktail Club

London Hotspot Find: Experimental Cocktail Club | meltingbutter.com

EXPERIMENTAL COCKTAIL CLUB, LONDON CHINATOWN Positioned across 3 floors of an old Chinatown townhouse is the London edition of the Experimental Cocktail Club, a prohibition bar offering shi-shi Londoners a sophisticated way to start off (or end) their evenings. The people lingering outside could be mistaken for those waiting in line for Chinese food next […]

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