Cool Hunting Video: Takashi

The NYC Japanese-Korean barbecue restaurant cooks beef from nose to tail

Manhattan’s West Village restaurant, Takashi, isn’t your average barbecue joint. To learn more, we spoke with Chef Takashi about preparing beef cuisine, quite literally, from nose to tail. Blending Korean and Japanese flavors and cooking traditions, this barbecue house offers patrons a unique dining experience—whether or not they are adventurous enough to try all four stomachs and a side of testicle.

Spoil Me Rotten Dog Biscuits

Treat your furry friends to a healthy, filler-free snack, baked fresh in NYC

The natural, artisanal and small-batch renaissance hasn’t left the pet world untouched—with some hits (like CH favorite Bocce’s Bakery) and some misses. Spoil Me Rotten Dog Biscuits are the newest to receive paw-prints of approval from CH mascots Logan and Otis. Using organic human-grade ingredients, SMR offers Duck Confit, Salmon Tartare and Carrot Cake flavors and more that would make any dog owner salivate. (Full …

Daylight Mind Coffee Company

Coffees from Hawaii and around the world, overseen by a scientist with a PhD in coffee

It’s in Kona, Hawaii where the unique “farm-to-roastery-to-cup” experience could give the artisanal roasters in New York or San Francisco a run for their money. Daylight Mind Coffee Company (DMCC) in Kona opened its doors in September 2013 as not only a traditional coffee house and roaster, but also a restaurant, bakery and coffee school and now a bar. All of this is accompanied by …