Cool Hunting Video Presents: U-Mini Burger

Re-imagining fast food with quality ingredients and outstanding flavor in our video on LA's king of burgers

The second of our videos to premiere at this year’s 99u will definitely get you in the mood for lunch. We spoke to the founder of the famous Umami Burger in Los Angeles about his newest experimental venture, the U-Mini Burger. U-Mini takes all the basic, delicious elements of the typical Umami burger and translates those flavors into a fast food environment. Those used to …

The Salty Bird Cocktail

Welcome summer with pineapple, Campari and black strap rum

We recently joined Theo Lieberman of NYC’s Milk & Honey to try out his latest creation; a fruity and bitter cocktail ideal for tropical living. Crafted in tandem with Lauren Schell of Little Branch, the drink is a variation of the Jungle Bird—specifically, a 1978 recipe from the Hilton Hotel’s Aviary Bar in Kuala Lampur—which balances out sweet pineapple juice with the bitterness of Campari …

Bucket’s Portland Press

Turn a standard Mason jar into a sustainably-made French press

Sometimes Portland is just so “Portland”—and we love them for it. The small-batch-everything mentality has given birth to an endless supply of start-ups with interests varying from leather goods to ice cream. The most recent to catch our attention references the little city’s number one love: coffee. Launching today on crowd-funding site Crowd Supply, design and build studio Bucket introduces the Portland Press, a long-term, …