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 Party Find: Mister Sunday at Industry City

NYC Party Find: Mister Sunday at Industry City | meltingbutter.com

A weekend that ends with a stint on Mister Sunday’s vibe-y dance floor is a good weekend indeed. This summer, the outdoor party relocated from a grassy knoll over at the Gowanus canal to a tree-lined courtyard between two imposing Industry City warehouses. While Brooklynites certainly miss the intimacy of the Gowanus location, this new […]

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NYC Restaurant Find: Brooklyn Crab

NYC Restaurant Find: Brooklyn Crab | meltingbutter.com

Escape from New York City this summer and take a 20-minute taxi ride Red Hook’s Brooklyn Crab ”“ a faux seaside getaway that comes complete with everything you need to make the city’s hustle and bustle a distant memory for the evening. Brooklyn crab is a rare experience for New Yorkers – a tri-level open-air […]

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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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