Posted by Jenny Nguyen on May 8, 2014 · Leave a Comment
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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Category Food + Drink, New York City, NYC Food + Drink, NYC Shops, Shops, United States · Tags Brooklyn, Brooklyn Flea, city guide, Flea Market, Fort Greene, Hotspot, Market, New York, NYC, NYC Food & Drink, NYC Shopping, NYC Sights, USA
Posted by Jenny Nguyen on September 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment
It’s been about 6 months since our last NYC restaurant round up”¦ in New York time that is worth at least a year’s worth of restaurant research! So, it’s time for a new round up of 10 of our favourite meltingbutter.com restaurant haunts. Some of these restaurants are new, some are old, some are hotspots […]
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Category Features, New York City, NYC Features, NYC Food + Drink, United States · Tags best restaurants, Brooklyn, Casa, city guide, degustation, East Village, Estela, Fort Greene, Google maps, hidden gems, holiday planning, holidays, Madiba, Manhattan, Miss Lily’s, New York, Nolita, NY, nyc restaurants, restaurants, Robataya, Roman’s, Sobakoh, Spicy Village, The Musket Room, travel guide, USA, West Village Chinatown
Posted by Jenny Nguyen on September 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment
SPICY VILLAGE, CHINATOWN I discovered Spicy Village after (frustratingly) never being able to get a table at Mission Chinese Restaurant and subsequently finding a Nowness film of Danny Bowien (Mission Chinese’s owner/chef) talking about Spicy Village as the NYC Chinese restaurant that inspired him the most. When I ate at Spicy Village my frustrations melted […]
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Category Food + Drink, New York City, NYC Food + Drink, United States · Tags city guide, Fort Greene, Hotspot, Italian, New York, New York City, NYC, restaurant, Roman’s
Posted by Jenny Nguyen on September 17, 2013 · Leave a Comment
(Madiba NYC has been reported closed) Madiba is the essence of Fort Greene with its laid back, festive vibe. It’s always busy with good-looking locals enjoying a South African beer and some afro-pop tunes. The restaurant serves food from its South African roots and I promise you will be impressed! If you haven’t tried South […]
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Posted by Jenny Nguyen on September 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Roman’s is arguably the best restaurant in Brooklyn (and maybe even New York) and probably deserves a whole blog entry unto itself. No other restaurant we’ve been to consistently serves up eye-rolling-ly good modern Italian food like Roman’s does. Best Bit: I could wholeheartedly recommend you anything on their menu and be confident that they […]
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Posted by Jenny Nguyen on October 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Italians and Australians in my experience are two of the fussiest coffee drinkers in the world. And it just so happens that most of my friends living in NYC are either Australian, Italian, or people who have lived in Italy for a substantial time ”“ basically; my friends are a bunch of coffee snobs. Since […]
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Category Features, New York City, NYC Food + Drink, United States · Tags Australian, barista, best coffee, Brooklyn, cafes, cappuccino, Chelsea, city guide, coffee, cortado, East Village, espresso, Fort Greene, good coffee, Google maps, holiday planning, holidays, il cantuccio, Italian, la colombe, la colombe torrefaction, lil frankies, macchiato, Manhattan, Midtown, New York, Noho, NY, ports nyc, ports tea and coffee, smooch, Stumptown, the commons Chelsea, travel guide, USA, West Village