Fashion Boutique Find: Bird NYC
Better known for its thriving community of rugged hipsters, food aficionados and creative talent, Brooklyn is fast becoming a hub of high fashion. Jen Mankins, owner of Bird boutique, has decided to keep it in the Brooklyn family with her third (and largest) boutique in Williamsburg. Like many places in the area, the boutique also […]
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Good Coffee Find: Intelligentsia Coffee High Line Hotel NYC
Inside the cloistered environs of The High Line Hotels’ gothic style building sits Intelligentsia’s first NYC café. The beloved Chicago-based roaster has burrowed itself comfortably inside the hotel’s dark wood lobby, which dates back to 1895. On a sunny day, discerning coffee lovers looking for a quality cup of Joe and a place for quiet […]
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Good Coffee Find: Two Hands NYC
(May 21st 2015: Unfortunately, following a recent visit to Two Hands NYC, Melting Butter no longer recommends the cafe’s food or service) Two Hands NYC is that bright, airy café that you would typically find right by a beautiful Sydney beach. You know the ones – where the coffee is always good, the food is simply […]
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The Curators: Michelin starred Chef Matt Lambert on NZ cuisine and his top 6 NYC restaurants
(This article by Jenny Nguyen-Barron first appeared in ForbesLife. Click here to read the original) Oceanic cuisine is unmistakably trending in New York City right now. In the last year, the media has shone a flattering spotlight on the multitude of cleanly designed, produce-led restaurants and cafes that are beginning to inhabit many of the city’s streets. […]
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Good Coffee Find: Brunswick Cafe NYC
Along with NYC’s fast growing antipodean population comes with it Australia’s favorite cultural past time and its best export – coffee. Inspired by the laid-back Australian lifestyle – unpretentious with a slick decor to boot, Brunswick Café is a recent addition on the NYC coffee scene and it’s fast becoming a neighborhood gem. Its menu […]
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Cocktail Bar Find: Pouring Ribbons NYC
Pouring Ribbons NYC is the cocktail bar that keeps the local Alphabet City crowd satisfyingly lubricated with its multifarious and rather potent drink creations. Once inside, drinkers should find a spot beside the oversized half moon window that looks out onto the bustle of Avenue B and then relish in the fact that Pouring Ribbons […]
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Cocktail Bar Find: Nitecap NYC
Nitecap NYC is a subterranean cocktail den situated in the basement of a Lower East Side restaurant offering confident cocktails inside an unpretentious environment. The distinguished team; hailing from Death & Co and Maison Premiere have made a refreshing point of this unpretentiousness by hiring sincerely friendly staff that necessarily aren’t clad in bowties and […]
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Restaurant Find: Danji NYC
1 / 1 ( 1 vote ) We all have that one friend who “avoids any street between ”“ insert Midtown street numbers here – like the plague” for reasons only a New Yorker can justify. Surely, one should specifically avoid any area in midtown – especially when it comes to pickings of the culinary […]
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NYC Restaurant Find: Fung Tu
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
(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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