The author states: >"And yet, this coffee shop is packed. Here, you’ll find nothing but trend-hungry foreigners in search of familiarity and a neon-lit stage f

The author states: >"And yet, this coffee shop is packed. Here, you’ll find nothing but trend-hungry foreigners in search of familiarity and a neon-lit stage for their next Instagram post." And then they go on to post a picture of "Bathtub Gin" as their favorite hometown bar. This is a bar in NYC that is a generic "mixology" bar with exposed brick and velvet chairs in the trendiest and most hyper-consumerism neighborhood in Manhattan. This is the same high end cocktail bar you can find any major city. The author even refers to it as a "speakeasy" - a marketing term re-appropriated to describe a certain ready-made aesthetic. There is nothing unique or "local" about it. It's full of tourists who staying down the street at the Maritime Hotel. Needless to say there's lots of Instagramming goin on there.