Posted by Jenny Nguyen on December 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment
1 / 1 ( 2 votes ) After a trip to Laurent-Perrier’s Sydney pop-up location The L-P Bar and a chat with its head chef Brendan Cato my mind kept wandering to those moments when we share champagne. These are the moments of pure indulgence that we pair with fine food and wine as we […]
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Category Australia, Features, Food + Drink, Sydney, Sydney Features, Sydney Food + Drink · Tags Australia, best restaurants, Brendan Cato, chef, Chippendale, city guide, Curator, Ester, fine dining, Indulgence, Laurent Perrier, Longrain, NSW, Potts Point, restaurant guide, restaurants, Rose Bay, Sepia, Surry Hills, Sydney, Sydney city guide, Sydney Food & Drink, The Apollo, The Bridge Room, The Sailors Club, travel guide
Posted by Jenny Nguyen on December 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment
1 / 1 ( 3 votes ) For this edition of The Curators we’re excited to introduce to you one of our all-time favourite deejays and biggest music inspirations ”“ Lefto. This man, a globetrotting musical tastemaker, is known for his special knack of uncovering fresh talent, new genres and the latest releases within his mainstays hip hop, […]
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Category Atlanta, Atlanta Nightlife, Austria, Features, Israel, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Nightlife, Music, New York City, Nightlife, NYC Nightlife, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Nightlife, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Nightlife, United States, Vienna, Vienna Nightlife · Tags Atlanta, Best clubs, Brooklyn, Cielo, city guide, Club guide, clubbing, clubs, Curator, DJ, Five Easy Pieces, Grelle Forelle, LA, Lefto, Los Angeles, music, Music Festival, New York, New York City, Nightlife, NYC, Output, Q-Tip, Roger Sanchez, Singapore, sound system, Tel Aviv, The Block, The Lift, The Panther Room, The Sound Table, travel guide, USA, Vienna, Worldwide, Zouk
Posted by Jenny Nguyen on December 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment
On my last trip out to Sydney I checked out Ms G’s, a hip pan-Asian restaurant in Potts Point. It instantly took a spot in our Sydney restaurant guide and also became the subject of my Vietnamese food obsessions. You see, the food at Ms G’s is my comfort food only I strangely found myself […]
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Category Australia, Features, Food + Drink, Sydney, Sydney Features, Sydney Food + Drink · Tags Australia, Chat Thai, chef, city guide, Curator, Dan Hong, Executive Chef, food, Golden Century, Happy Chef, Ms G’s, NSW, restaurant, restaurants, Ryo’s Noodles, Sydney, Sydney Restaurants, Thanh Binh, travel guide
Posted by Jenny Nguyen on November 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment
1 / 1 ( 7 votes ) Everyone knows New York City is a mecca for art with all of its museums, galleries and art centres but not everyone knows where to look for it beyond the city’s more obvious and famous institutions. That’s why I decided to call upon art expert, Sara Schifano to […]
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Category Arts + Culture, Features, New York City, NYC Arts + Culture, NYC Features, United States · Tags Alan Reid, art, Bushwick, Casey Kaplan, Chadwick Rantanen, Chelsea, city guide, contemporary art, Curator, David Adamo, Diego Perrone, Dieter Roth, Editor, Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Ian Tweedy, Jonathan Monk, Journalist, LES, Liam Gillick, Lisa Cooley, Lower East Side, Marco Antonini, Martin Creed, museum, Nathan Carter, New York, NURTUREart, NY, Paul McCarthy, Sara Schifano, Scott Reeder, Sean Kennedy, Shinsuke Aso, travel guide, Untitled, USA
Posted by Jenny Nguyen on November 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment
A little while back I came across a Portland based jewellery designer, Stephanie Simek, who creates the most intriguing little adornments for all of your jewel wearing body parts. I was instantly drawn to her Classealienne Rings – the colourful baubles you see me wearing below which decorate your often-overlooked finger nooks that you can […]
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Category Arts + Culture, Features, Food + Drink, Portland, Portland Arts + Culture, Portland Features, Portland Food + Drink, Portland Shops, Shops · Tags art, Artist, Breitenbush Hot Springs, Cafe, Canteen, city guide, Coava Coffee, Curator, Designer, Ed’s House of Gems, food, Gallery, Hot Springs, ice cream, Interview, Jewellery, Lumber Room, museum, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Nationale, Oregon, Paxton Gate, Peninsula Park Rose Garden, Portland, restaurants, Rice Museum, Rose Garden, Salt & Straw, Stand Up Comedy, Stephanie Simek, travel guide, USA, Yale Union
Posted by Jenny Nguyen on October 22, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Not to rub it in, but I’m feeling pretty refreshed (and even a little tanned!) after a nice holiday in Australia for the last couple weeks. Normally on a trip all the way out to Australia I’ll always spend a good amount of time with my first city love, Melbourne but this time I cheated […]
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Category Australia, Features, Sydney, Sydney Features, Sydney Food + Drink · Tags Alexandria, Australia, best restaurants, Bill Granger, Bills, Bronte, city guide, coffee, Darlinghurst, espresso, Gnome, holidays, House, Kitchen by Mike, Koskela, Ms G’s, Nom, NSW, Potts Point, restaurants, Rosebery, Rueben Hills, Surry Hills, Sydney, The Commons, The Fish Shop, The Grounds of Alexandria, Three Blue Ducks, travel guide
Posted by Jenny Nguyen on October 18, 2013 · Leave a Comment
About 5 years ago (to my delight) I stumbled across Adelaide based eBay seller Claire Inc. who had the most exquisite taste in designer vintage clothing. Belinda Humprhis, the founder of Claire Inc. has since grown the business into an online fashion destination for shrewd, well-dressed ladies searching for high-end vintage clothing ”“ admittedly she […]
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Category Adelaide, Adelaide Features, Adelaide Food + Drink, Adelaide Nightlife, Adelaide Shops, Australia, Features, Food + Drink, Nightlife, Shops · Tags Adelaide, Adelaide City, Alpha Box & Dice, Antique Market, Antiques, Australia, Bakery, bar, Beck’s Bakehouse, Belinda Humphris, city guide, Claire Inc., Curator, Fashion, Florist, food, holiday planning, holidays, Interview, Lucia’s Pizzeria, McLaren Vale, Melrose Park, North Adelaide, Pub, restaurants, Ruby Red Flamingo, shopping, The Exeter Hotel, The New Guard, The Tenth Meadow, travel guide, Unley, vintage, Vintage Fashion, wine
Posted by Jenny Nguyen on October 8, 2013 · Leave a Comment
1 / 1 ( 4 votes ) There’s something very new and exciting happening over here at meltingbutter.com. We’re launching a new section called “The Curators” where we’ve hand selected the most interesting and creative tastemakers from cities all over the world to give us a little insight into what makes them, their work and […]
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Category Features, New York City, NYC Features, NYC Shops, Shops, United States · Tags ABC Carpet & Home, Baggu, Brooklyn, city guide, Curator, Flatiron, Fresh Kills, Furniture, holiday planning, holidays, Home ware, Interiors, Interview, Kiosk, Manhattan, Marcus Hay, MoMa, MoMa Design Store, New York, NY, Ochre, Piero Fornasetti, shopping, SoHo, Steven Alan, Steven Alan Home Shop, Styling, travel guide, Tribeca, Union Square, USA, Williamsburg
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 August 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment
It’s been just over a year living in NYC now and admittedly; it’s been the drunkest year of my life. I’m not really sure who I should be blaming for this”¦ Myself? My friends? The plethora of watering holes in the city? Probably all three (not that there’s even anything wrong with some responsibly drunken […]
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Category Features, New York City, NYC Features, NYC Nightlife, United States · Tags Angel’s Share, Attaboy, bar, bars, best bars, Brooklyn, brooklynites, Bushwick, city guide, club, Decibel, dinner drinks, East Village, Elsa, Google maps, Greenpoint, holiday planning, holidays, Kinfolk Studios, LES, Lower East Side, Manhattan, Mother’s Ruin, New York, Nolita, NY, nyc bars, quality establishments, Sake Bar Decibel, The Narrows, Torst, travel guide, USA, Von, watering holes, Willamsburg, Wythe Hotel
