Muy Mio
A little gem in Barcelona, Muy Mio is a hole-in-wall bar and restaurant with an emphasis on wines. The interior design is by IntSight, who specialize in interiors for brands. It’s an upliftingly clean combination of organic and industrial. Raw textures and finishes like knit pillows, undyed canvas, and wicker seating are combined with exposed [...]
Kitchen Memories
When I was somewhere between 11 and 12 years old, my parents and I spent three months in New Zealand on our way back from a three year stay in Australia. Those three months are likely to be some of the best in my lifetime, as short as it’s been thus far. We rarely ate [...]
Molécule-R
Let’s all take a minute to oggle the awe-inspiring food photography of Molécule-R by Montreal’s Chez Valois. While the packaging might exude a bit of an undesirable clinical feeling for some, I find that it fits the world of molecular gastronomy to a T, with a minimalistic silver metallic ink and references to chemistry throughout. [...]
Salad Pangea
Salad Pangea is a fast-casual restaurant that offers a modern, multi-cultural experience. Its first location is in the Flatiron District, home to food savvy, fast-paced Manhattanites looking for a moment of escape from their daily routine. Salad Pangea offers that moment, with a diverse menu and an array of exotic ingredients you wouldn’t find at [...]
Leslie Lewis Sigler
Connecting to the beauty in daily existence is what drives my artistic vision. My particular areas of focus are the natural beauty that can be discerned in unnatural objects, and also the relationship of these objects to the spaces they occupy. I see an innate beauty in a simple wooden chair or an antique blowtorch; [...]
Im Nu of Germany
Follow my blog with Bloglovin From Julian Hrankov of Berlin comes identity overhaul and packaging development for German coffee alternative “Im Nu”. Many of you will be familiar with the growing popularity of roasted wheat and grain based drinks (I’m a big fan of the Polish variety “Inka” myself) and many of you will also [...]
Miller’s Sugar Murals
Shelley Miller is a Montreal-based artist whose installations, sculptures and public works have been exhibited across Canada as well as India and Brazil. She earned a Bachelors in Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 1997 (Calgary, AB) and a Masters in Fine Arts from Concordia University in 2001 (Montreal, QC). [...]
Eat Me: Victionary
Eating is no longer a pure experience of smell and taste but rather an effective agency to communicate and engage, an indication of cultural values, lifestyle, artisanship, criticism, aspirations and imagination this present day. While no single aspect of food and the associated can epitomise the new food culture, EAT ME takes out a slice [...]
