Good Coffee Find: Brunswick Cafe NYC

Brunswick Cafe NYC | Melting Butter Coffee Hotspot

Along with NYC’s fast growing antipodean population comes with it Australia’s favorite cultural past time and its best export – coffee. Inspired by the laid-back Australian lifestyle – unpretentious with a slick decor to boot, Brunswick Café is a recent addition on the NYC coffee scene and it’s fast becoming a neighborhood gem. Its menu […]

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Restaurant Find: Danji NYC

Danji NYC - Restaurant Hotspot | meltingbutter.com

1 / 1 ( 1 vote ) We all have that one friend who “avoids any street between ”“ insert Midtown street numbers here – like the plague” for reasons only a New Yorker can justify. Surely, one should specifically avoid any area in midtown – especially when it comes to pickings of the culinary […]

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NYC Restaurant Find: Fung Tu

Fung Tu NYC | Melting Butter Restaurant Hotspot

What do you get when you cross the intricacy of fine dining establishment Per Se, with the down and dirty Chinese restaurant institution Nom Wah Tea Parlor? What you get is Fung Tu’s imaginatively crafted dishes that hark back to the food of Head Chef Jonathan Wu’s Chinese upbringing. Interestingly, a quick Google search for […]

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7 Exceptional NYC Restaurants For Japanese Food Buffs

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(This article by Jenny Nguyen first appeared in ForbesLife. Click here to read the original) You would have a hard time trying to convince me that any other city outside of Japan has better Japanese food than NYC does. This city is a veritable hotbed of incredible Japanese restaurants that span the spectrum of exceedingly authentic […]

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NYC Food Find: Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream

NYC Food Find: Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream | meltingbutter.com

Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream NYC opened this summer and already it’s doing a good job of pulling at New Yorker’s nostalgia strings in a fresh new way. The ice cream parlor’s surroundings are clearly rooted in classic American style but the creative and oftentimes-experimental flavors certainly aren’t. Think Vietnamese coffee, durian banana, raspberry Aperol and of […]

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NYC Restaurant Find: Claudette

NYC Restaurant Find: Claudette | meltingbutter.com

For those of us who are too time poor or cash-strapped for a quick hop across the pond to Europe this summer, a visit to Greenwich Village’s Claudette is the next best thing to a dalliance in Southern France. Inspired by Provençal cuisine, a region blessed with an abundance of fresh fruits, seafood, meat and wine, Claudette’s […]

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NYC Restaurant Find: Takashi

NYC Restaurant Find: Takashi | meltingbutter.com

Takashi is an imaginative, slightly oddball restaurant situated in the West Village that specializes in Yakiniku, the Japanese BBQ style that originates from Osaka, a city with a sizeable number of Korean migrants who have naturally influenced the regional cuisine. Nothing is wasted at Takashi. On the menu you’ll find some rather exotic parts of […]

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NYC Italian Tapas Bar Find: Bar B

Beef Croquette Burger at NYC Italian Tapas Bar Find: Bar B | meltingbutter.com

The notoriously media shy owners of Basta Pasta, the 24 year old Japanese/Italian trattoria have quietly opened Bar B ”“ a brilliant little Italian tapas bar – without even the Internet finding out. They seem to have made it purposely difficult for New Yorkers to stumble across. To begin with, the name “Bar B” is […]

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NYC Restaurant Find: Sakagura

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Sakagura is not the kind of restaurant you just happen upon ”“ it’s one that you need to spend time seeking out. Enter through the lobby of a stark Midtown office building and make your way into the basement. You’ll open the door to the restaurant’s expansive underground space and think to yourself, “How is […]

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NYC Restaurant Find: Northern Spy Food Co

NYC Restaurant Find: Northern Spy Food Co | meltingbutter.com

Northern Spy Food Co is a beloved East Village neighborhood gem of the un-hyped, understated variety. Rather than focusing on PR, the restaurant puts its energy into pleasing the city’s locavores with a farm-to-table menu made from ingredients that have been curated from local providers. Food is cooked to a high standard and enjoyed inside […]

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