NYC Hidden Bar Find: The Roost

NYC Hidden Bar Find: The Roost | meltingbutter.com

Maybe you’ve already been to The Roost for coffee, but only inquisitive coffee drinkers will know that there is a reward for stepping through the door situated just past the coffee counter. Behind it is an inviting bar about 3x the size of the quaint coffee shop and it’s where the local Alphabet City crowd […]

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NYC Cocktail Bar Find: Employees Only

NYC Cocktail Bar Find: Employees Only | meltingbutter.com

Employees Only is a classic neo-speakeasy bar hidden in the West Village behind a door displaying a deceptive neon “psychic” sign. Inside, deco details and a serious cocktail list take us back to that arousing time during the depraved prohibition era of shrouded debauchery. Having opened in 2004 in a city filled with fickle bar […]

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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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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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Restaurant Find: Bohemian NYC

NYC HOTSPOT FIND: BOHEMIAN | meltingbutter.com

Hidden behind Japan Premium Beef on Great Jones Street, lays a Japanese restaurant shrouded in secrecy ”“ an almost impossible feat in a city run by publicity and where speakeasies and members clubs are a dime-a-dozen. Somehow though, Bohemian pulls off the member’s only restaurant concept in a way that weeds out the scene-y side of […]

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NYC Bar Find: Tooker Alley

NYC HOTSPOT FIND: TOOKER ALLEY | meltingbutter.com

TOOKER ALLEY, PROSPECT HEIGHTS This understated, yet quietly quirky artisanal cocktail bar serves up undoubtedly stylish tipples, which they evidently take very seriously. Just take a peek at their multi-page old-timey style menu which offers readers insight into the history of what they’re drinking as well as the bar’s manifesto which is to be “consciously […]

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