Shaun Hergatt’s Playful Canapés at Juni, NYC

The Michelin-starred Aussie chef compresses creativity into tiny bites at his Midtown restaurant

On an unassuming block east of Koreatown, NYC restaurant Juni lives in the ground floor of the quiet Hotel Chandler—a classic boutique hotel that eschews trendiness for efficient service. The restaurant is the baby (seating just 50) of Australian chef Shaun Hergatt, who closed his two Michelin-starred namesake restaurant to open Juni in 2013. And since, Chef Hergatt has been taking guests on adventurous two-hour …

Sriracha Popcorn

One of the many new ways to indulge the cult hot chili sauce

Huy Fong Food’s original—and unabashedly copied—Sriracha hot chili sauce has forever altered the tastebuds of people all over the world, found on bowls of fried rice and avocado kale salads alike. We’ve been overjoyed to find out that the cult hot sauce (made in the USA from red jalapeño chili peppers) can now be consumed in other ways beyond its classic sauce form. Through a …

Hotel Bachaumont Opens in Paris

An Art Deco boutique hotel with a banging bar and restaurant from the Experimental Cocktail Club folks

Officially opened just a few weeks ago, the minimalist, retro-style Hotel Bachaumont is a sublime (and much-needed) lodging and dining addition to Paris’ hotel-strapped second arrondissement. About a ten minute walk from the Louvre (and a five minute stroll to David Lynch’s nightclub Silencio), the 49-room hotel is the debut property from the newly formed La Clé Group, which is planning its second opening, Hotel …