What’s on the Menu? More Than Food!

Cherry Bombe, the women-in-food media brand known for its magazine, podcasts and events, is bringing it all under one roof at 412 West 14th Street from September 9 through 18. Cherry Bombe House welcomes the Bombesquad community for ten days of dining, shopping, live programming and more.

We spoke with Kate Miller Spencer, CEO of Cherry Bombe, about bringing the brand to life in a physical space, why Meatpacking made sense for its first House, what to experience while you’re there, and what these ten days could mean for what comes next.

Meatpacking: Cherry Bombe has grown from a magazine into podcasts, events and a much larger community. Why did this feel like the right moment to bring that world together under one physical roof with Cherry Bombe House?

Kate Miller: Cherry Bombe has always lived in a lot of places at once: a page you read, a voice in your headphones, a room you walked into for one night. What was missing was a place that held all of it at the same time, long enough for people to actually live inside it.

Ten days at 412 West 14th Street lets us run live podcast tapings, book signings, a full café menu, and a shop all under one roof, instead of asking our community to catch us in fragments throughout the year. It's what it looks like when the whole ecosystem gets to breathe in the same room.

Meatpacking: Why Meatpacking? What about the neighborhood felt right for bringing together food, fashion, entrepreneurship and the Bombesquad for these ten days?

KM: Meatpacking sits at the intersection of food, fashion, and independent business in a way that mirrors exactly what Cherry Bombe is about. It's downtown, it's walkable, and it has enough history and energy in a few blocks to hold a Barilla pasta tasting, a Rachel Antonoff trunk show, and a small business meet-up in the same week without any of it feeling out of place.

Meatpacking: Cherry Bombe House goes well beyond food, with fashion, wellness, books, live conversations, and shopping all part of the experience. What does that mix say about the way you see food fitting into culture today?

KM: Walk through the House, and you'll hit the Cherry Bombe Cafe powered by Square, book signings, live podcast recordings, a Moon Juice flower bar, Haven Well Within's wellness shots, and the Rachel Antonoff Trunk Show, all in the same footprint. That's intentional. Food was never just about the plate for us; it's always been the entry point into how women build careers and communities. If you love food, you probably also care about what you're wearing, what you're reading, how you're taking care of yourself. Treating those as separate categories never reflected how our audience actually lives.

Meatpacking: For someone who only has an afternoon to spend at Cherry Bombe House, what are the experiences or details you'd tell them not to miss?

KM: Start at the Cherry Bombe Cafe powered by Square, where a different partner brand takes over each stretch of days: Clementine's Ice Cream, The Good Batch, From Lucie, Reem's California, Ramen by Ra all get their turn. Catch House of Al Bronzo, Barilla's three-day pasta tasting built around a custom Rachel Antonoff design, if it lines up with your visit. Stop by the Moon Juice DIY flower bar and the Bombesquad Lounge for a Miele coffee, then swing through the Cherry Bombe Shop for merch you won't find anywhere else. If your dates overlap with the Rachel Antonoff Trunk Show, build your afternoon around it.

Meatpacking: Community has always been central to Cherry Bombe. What changes when the Bombesquad can actually gather in a space like this rather than connecting through a magazine, podcast or one-night event?

KM: A magazine is a monologue. A podcast is intimate but one-directional. Even a great event is a flash: it ends, and everyone scatters. A house that's open ten days straight lets people linger, come back twice, run into someone at the Cherry Bombe Cafe powered by Square they later see again at a podcast taping. That's when community stops being something we broadcast to and starts being something that happens between people, without us in the room at all.

Meatpacking: When Cherry Bombe House closes on September 18, what do you hope people leave talking about, and could the House concept have a life beyond these ten days?

KM: I want people to leave talking about the specific moment they didn't expect: a flower bar, a sound bath, a trunk show, a podcast taping they wandered into on their lunch break. Ten days is a proof of concept for what Cherry Bombe can be as a place, not just a media brand. Whether it becomes a recurring fixture or something with a more permanent footprint is exactly the conversation we're having right now.

What comes next may still be on the table. For now, there’s plenty on the menu at Cherry Bombe House right here in Meatpacking!

Cherry Bombe House
September 9–18, 2026
412 West 14th Street
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