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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Amsterdam Bar Find: Wynand Fockink
If only the walls of Wynand Fockink, Amsterdam’s oldest jenever tasting room and distillery (dating back to 1679!) could talk. They would have over three centuries worth of drinking stories from the likes of Churchill, Chagall and history’s most remarkable. After you make your way down the narrow side-alley to Wynand Fockink’s snug bar room, […]
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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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London Restaurant Find: Duck & Waffle
Duck & Waffle gets a bad rep. The highest restaurant in the UK, with 360-degree views, an expensive menu and snooty staff is bound to ”“ but the fact that it is so difficult to secure a table must be for a reason, right? If you only remember one thing from this article today, let […]
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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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