NYC Restaurant Find: Emily

Not everyone loves pizza, you know. Sure, 99% of the world loves pizza but there is still that 1% who find pizza night with a bunch of pizza lovers, and being forced to order a poorly constructed lasagna, made without love, kind of a drag. Pizza restaurants hardly ever do anything but pizza well. But […]

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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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NYC Food Find: Prohibition Bakery

Old Fashioned Cupcake at NYC Food Find: Prohibition Bakery | meltingbutter.com

Prohibition Bakery turns the speakeasy concept upside down with its basement store tucked away on the Lower East Side. Here, booze meets bakery, where a range of miniature cupcakes are injected with a cheeky dose of liquor. The Pretzels & Beer cupcake is a best seller, and combines ale, Nutella, pretzel and white truffle to […]

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NYC Café Find: Happy Bones

NYC Café Find: Happy Bones | meltingbutter.com

For 3rd wave style coffee that represents how they do it in New Zealand, head to Happy Bones – a Soho café with a simple concept of good coffee, art and well-curated art books to flick through and even buy. Light streams through this clean, minimalistic style café making each and every one of your […]

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NYC Underground Dining Find: EatWith Ai

NYC Underground Dining Find: EatWith Ai | meltingbutter.com

Inside an impossibly cool Williamsburg loft, there is Ai, a Japanese girl serving small groups of adventurous eaters with inspired 5 course Japanese dinners in what has to be the most underground of underground dining experiences. Thanks to EatWith, a website that can be described as the Airbnb of restaurants; Ai has a platform for […]

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NYC Café Find: Tarallucci e Vino

NYC Café Find: Tarallucci e Vino | meltingbutter.com

Tarallucci e Vino is an unassuming, opposite-of-trendy café but it should still be your East Village pit stop for proper Italian coffee made for you by an Italian accented barista. As soon as you put away your espresso, order the best pistachio gelato you will find in the city. Big call I know, but you’ll […]

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Restaurant Find: Balaboosta NYC

NYC Restaurant Find: Balaboosta | meltingbutter.com

Balaboosta NYC is a casually sophisticated restaurant serving lucky Nolitans with Middle Eastern comfort food with a decided Mediterranean twist. The food here is the draw card. We already know that Chef Einat Admony knows the food of her hometown Israel well ”“ take Taim, Admony’s first brick and mortar foray into the New York […]

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The Curators: Navy’s Akiva Elstein on Restaurant Design & NYC’s Top Interior Gems

The Curators: Navy NYC’s Owner & Designer Avika Elstein on Restaurant Design & NYC’s Top Interior Gems | meltingbutter.com

In NYC’s competitive restaurant landscape, restaurants can no longer rely solely on the quality of their food offering. The recipe for a restaurant’s success must also include an ability to evoke a strong emotional response and a connection with diners through its environment. But how is this best achieved? Through the huge amount of consideration […]

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NYC Cafe Find: Gasoline Alley Coffee

NYC Café Find: Gasoline Alley Coffee | meltingbutter.com

1 / 1 ( 1 vote ) Gasoline Alley is the perfect NoHo refueling pit stop for coffee snobs looking for quality, consistency and a simple menu aimed at people who actually know how to drink coffee (i.e. no strange flavouring syrups available here). It’s just an added bonus that you get to enjoy your […]

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NYC Restaurant Find: Il Gattopardo

NYC Restaurant Find: Il Gattopardo | meltingbutter.com

Il Gattopardo is no secret to its slew of regulars who are considered the high ups of New York City and are often found at upscale power lunches and business dinners around millionaire’s row. My opinion is that this restaurant is a secret that uptown folks have kept from downtown New Yorkers for far too long. […]

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