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 Boutique Hotel Find: The Bowery Hotel

NYC Boutique Hotel Find: Bowery Hotel | meltingbutter.com

Splurging a little on a stay at the The Bowery Hotel is well worth the investment if you’re easily seduced by high-design hotels, velvety luxury and the glamour of the past. The hotel already hints at a storied past as soon as the top-hatted, red-vested doormen lead the way to the soothingly lit lobby bar which […]

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NYC Cool Shop Find: In God We Trust

NYC Cool Shop Find: In God We Trust | meltingbutter.com

A cult favourite amongst hip Brooklynites, In God We Trust, a fashion label best known for its clean, quirky, vintage vibe is quickly becoming its own mini fashion empire with three stores in SoHo, Greenpoint, Williamsburg and counting. Each store, which is lovingly decorated with antiques (also for sale) carries the label’s own men’s and ladies […]

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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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Bed & Breakfast Find: Urban Cowboy NYC

NYC Bed & Breakfast Find: Urban Cowboy B&B | meltingbutter.com

1 / 1 ( 1 vote ) On a quiet residential street in Williamsburg, seasoned travellers looking for an authentic Brooklyn experience will find a bed and breakfast that feels very much like staying in someone’s really really nice place in Brooklyn. Urban Cowboy NYC is a stylishly renovated Williamsburg townhouse that gives you the feeling you’ve […]

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The Curators: Paul Jung on Minimalism in New York

The Curators: Paul Jung on Minimalism in New York | meltingbutter.com

Meet Paul Jung. An NYC based photographer and director whose visually impactful work has unsurprisingly captured the attention of the fashion industry. Still in the early part of his career, Jung has already defined his own visual language using film and photography to explore new territory within the minimalist aesthetic. Just one look at his […]

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NYC Culture Find: Nuyorican Poets Café

NYC Culture Find: Nuyorican Poets Café | meltingbutter.com

The Nuyorican Poets Café is a legendary Lower East Side cultural landmark. Since the early 70’s the café has offered a stage for multicultural, independent artists to deliver poetry, spoken-word and Afro-Caribbean musical performance to the city’s ethnically diverse, culturally expressive inhabitants. Originally this cultural gem had been set up as a platform for Puerto […]

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