NYC Restaurant Find: Sakagura
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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The Curators: A guide to Downtown LA for the aesthetically inclined
1 / 1 ( 1 vote ) It’s a safe bet to say that if you’re reading Melting Butter you’re likely a prolific explorer; traveller and probably to some extent, rather aesthetically inclined. If I’m right, you’re a lot like me so I’m pretty sure this app I’m going to tell you about will make […]
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NYC Restaurant Find: Northern Spy Food Co
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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NYC Arts Find: Storm King Art Center
Fine weather and the need to get out of the city to clear your head make 2 excellent reasons to take a quick day trip up to Hudson Valley”˜s Storm King – an incredibly vast 500 acre sculpture park filled with more than 100 breathtaking sculptures from acclaimed artists like Alexander Calder, Richard Serra, Isamu […]
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NYC Cocktail Bar Find: Employees Only
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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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
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
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
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
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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