NYC Restaurant Find: Wallflower

NYC Restaurant Find: Wallflower | meltingbutter.com

Wallflower is a West Village neighbourhood restaurant of the slightly more refined variety. By neighbourhood restaurant I mean it’s unpretentious but there’s still a certain air of luxury here, which probably rubbed off on its co-owner Xavier Herit while he clocked seven years as head bartender at Daniel, the NYC fine dining institution. As you […]

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Melbourne Wine Bar Find: City Wine Shop

Melbourne Wine Bar Find: City Wine Shop | meltingbutter.com

This inviting Melbourne hotspot is part wine bar, part bottle shop, part bistro, and part café. All parts are exceptional but mostly so is the wine – of which they make very easy for you to drink with all the consumption options made available. Have it by the glass, by the bottle or just take […]

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NYC Designer Find: Anna Sheffield

NYC Designer Find: Anna Sheffield | meltingbutter.com

A word of advice for those gents with stylish ladies in their lives – not all brides-to-be want the standard Tiffany diamond ring that the entire subway car needs to shield their eyes from 😉 We ladies conscious of our personal style are looking for something unconventional with quirks just like our own. That’s why […]

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San Sebastian Restaurant Find: Arzak

San Sebastian Restaurant Find: Arzak | meltingbutter.com

If you’re a serious food lover with a willingness to splurge on a meal you’ll remember for the rest of your life, Arzak in San Sebastian should be on your dine before you die list. Just be prepared to have you mind blown on multiple occasions during your dining experience by the flavours of each […]

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NYC Hotspot Find: Brooklyn Flea at Fort Greene

NYC Hotspot Find: Brooklyn Flea at Fort Greene | meltingbutter.com

According to”¦ me, spring has not sprung until the Saturday Brooklyn Flea arrives in Fort Greene. A favourite good weather pastime for many stylish New Yorkers is spending the day in a repurposed parking lot browsing unique crafts and collectibles made by local artisans as well as mid-century furniture gems, vintage records and denims and […]

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Paris Restaurant Find: Robert et Louise

Paris Restaurant Find: Robert et Louise | meltingbutter.com

This rustic French farmhouse style restaurant in Le Marais is where to go for some of the best steak in Paris. These guys are serious about their côte de boeuf, which you can watch being charred to perfection at an open fire ”“ come early to get a seat right by the action. Your meal […]

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Paris Eatery Find: Chez Taeko

Bento Box at Paris Eatery Find: Chez Taeko | meltingbutter.com

Shopping in Le Marais easily work up an appetite. Luckily, the neighbourhood is home to the Marché des Enfants-Rouges, a gourmet food market that is home to Chez Taeko, an understated Japanese canteen. Chez Taeko is a strictly Japanese food stall where Taeko Inai and her staff busily prepare the best bento boxes in the […]

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Restaurant Find: Hoi Polloi London

London Restaurant Find: Hoi Polloi | meltingbutter.com

We already know that the Ace Hotel is a place where hipsters of the world unite. So Hoi Polloi the all-day brasserie attached to the Ace Hotel Shoreditch is, not surprisingly, excruciatingly hipster. Love it or hate it, there’s no arguing that the interiors are beautiful, the atmosphere energetic and convivial and the food (which […]

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Boutique Find: OTHER shop London

London Cool Shop Find: OTHER/shop | meltingbutter.com

OTHER/shop is a real breath of fresh air after a few hours of navigating the sea of ho-hum high street stores on London’s Regent Street. Inside you can shop for unique and covet-worthy men’s and ladies clothing, accessories, home wares and books from brands that skew towards the simple and sophisticated end like Our Legacy, […]

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NYC Restaurant Find: Cata

NYC Restaurant Find: Cata | meltingbutter.com

Cata is a buzzing, informal restaurant on the Lower East Side that boasts a vast menu of gin & tonics to match their extensive menu of imaginative tapas. It’s refreshing to see a Spanish restaurant that goes beyond patatas bravas and offers something playful and creative like the quail eggs benedict with chorizo and hash […]

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