Restaurant x Tattoo Parlor x Coffee Shop x Boutique

Want some tequila with that tattoo?

Review by Nicole LoPresti

This month the downtown duo of Carlos Quirarte and Matt Kliegman (both known for promoting their famous Halloween bash at the Bowery Hotel) opened the doors to The Smile, a restaurant-cum-tattoo parlor-cum-coffee shop-cum-boutique on Bond Street in NYC. At this one stop shop, you can check out local artists, customize a pair of shoes, chill out by the fireplace, get a tattoo, or just get wasted. Melia Marden, the chef in the kitchen, is currently serving up lunch only but will expand to a fuller menu while Scott Campbell will be laying down the ink at the “Saved Tattoo” parlor soon to open in the basement. Although the eclectic concept is impossibly cool, Quirarte notes, “what we really want, actually, is for it to be warm. We want people to feel like they can come here and hang out, be regulars. There aren’t too many places doing that these days.”  Now there’s a reason to smile.

http://www.thesmilenyc.com/
26 Bond St
(between Lafayette St & Bowery)
New York, NY 10001

Nicole Lopresti is a contributor as well as the Lifestyle Editor for Honey Magazine