NYC Restaurant Find: Fung Tu

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What do you get when you cross the intricacy of fine dining establishment Per Se, with the down and dirty Chinese restaurant institution Nom Wah Tea Parlor? What you get is Fung Tu’s imaginatively crafted dishes that hark back to the food of Head Chef Jonathan Wu’s Chinese upbringing. Interestingly, a quick Google search for […]

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NYC Cocktail Bar Find: The Dead Rabbit

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(This article by Jenny Nguyen first appeared in ForbesLife. Click here to read the original) The Dead Rabbit NYC gives you 72 reasons to head down to the Financial District. That’s 72 expertly crafted cocktails (by Jack McGarry who has been named international bartender of the year) and an extensive selection of thoughtfully reinvented classics […]

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7 Exceptional NYC Restaurants For Japanese Food Buffs

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(This article by Jenny Nguyen first appeared in ForbesLife. Click here to read the original) You would have a hard time trying to convince me that any other city outside of Japan has better Japanese food than NYC does. This city is a veritable hotbed of incredible Japanese restaurants that span the spectrum of exceedingly authentic […]

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NYC Food Find: Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream

NYC Food Find: Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream | meltingbutter.com

Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream NYC opened this summer and already it’s doing a good job of pulling at New Yorker’s nostalgia strings in a fresh new way. The ice cream parlor’s surroundings are clearly rooted in classic American style but the creative and oftentimes-experimental flavors certainly aren’t. Think Vietnamese coffee, durian banana, raspberry Aperol and of […]

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NYC Restaurant Find: Claudette

NYC Restaurant Find: Claudette | meltingbutter.com

For those of us who are too time poor or cash-strapped for a quick hop across the pond to Europe this summer, a visit to Greenwich Village’s Claudette is the next best thing to a dalliance in Southern France. Inspired by Provençal cuisine, a region blessed with an abundance of fresh fruits, seafood, meat and wine, Claudette’s […]

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NYC Restaurant Find: Takashi

NYC Restaurant Find: Takashi | meltingbutter.com

Takashi is an imaginative, slightly oddball restaurant situated in the West Village that specializes in Yakiniku, the Japanese BBQ style that originates from Osaka, a city with a sizeable number of Korean migrants who have naturally influenced the regional cuisine. Nothing is wasted at Takashi. On the menu you’ll find some rather exotic parts of […]

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NYC Boutique Hotel Find: The Marlton Hotel

NYC Boutique Hotel Find: The Marlton Hotel | meltingbutter.com

The Marlton Hotel marks the seriousness of West 8th Street’s revival. Sure, locals knew it could happen when Stumptown Coffee Roasters opened amongst the hodgepodge of cheap shoe stores, nail salons and foot rub parlors but when a boutique hotel like this one; complete with historic character and antique-y details reminiscent of The Village’s literary […]

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NYC Italian Tapas Bar Find: Bar B

Beef Croquette Burger at NYC Italian Tapas Bar Find: Bar B | meltingbutter.com

The notoriously media shy owners of Basta Pasta, the 24 year old Japanese/Italian trattoria have quietly opened Bar B ”“ a brilliant little Italian tapas bar – without even the Internet finding out. They seem to have made it purposely difficult for New Yorkers to stumble across. To begin with, the name “Bar B” is […]

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NYC Cool Shop Find: McNally Jackson Picture Room

NYC Cool Shop Find: McNally Jackson Picture Room | meltingbutter.com

There’s something interesting going on at McNally Jackson. Not only has the indie bookstore opened Goods for the Study (our no. 1 source for eye-pleasing stationery products) but they’ve also quietly opened Picture Room, a hybrid art store, book store, art gallery and gift shop right next door. Hooray for even more beautiful things! Inside, […]

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NYC Concept Store Find: Filson Flagship

NYC Concept Store Find: Filson Flagship | meltingbutter.com

Filson, the American heritage brand best known for stubbornly made, unfailing goods for the modern adventurer has its first concept store in NYC’s NoHo and it’s as handsome as the rugged man who shops there. Adding to the whole outdoorsy rugged man aesthetic is the store’s seemingly strategic location right next door to the iconic […]

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