Robby Hunter — Bobby Butter
Bobby Butter — since 2016

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I sing in a band called Magic City Hippies. I've been making small-batch condiments out of borrowed kitchens for a decade. Bobby Butter is the label I put on the jars.

— Robby Hunter, Miami

Every recipe on this site has a show attached to it. Every jar of butter has a chorus in my head.
From the cookbook, chapter one
Cast iron with brown butter and trout
The Kitchen

borrowed pans, road-fed hands

It started with a chili crisp I made for the band on a break between tours. Six of us in a Miami apartment, one wok, a pantry raid at the Cuban corner store on 8th Street. Somebody said, “you should sell this.” So I did.

Now it’s five products, all made in small batches out of a commercial kitchen in Wynwood, all designed to travel — because most of them were invented on the road.

The Road

ten years of tour cooking

Every dish on the site was cooked in a van, a green room, a rented Airbnb kitchen, or a friend’s apartment after the show. Here’s where.

Solo guitar under crimson stage light
FILLMORE MIAMI · 08.16.2019
Wynwood Morning Cubano
WYNWOOD YARD · 12.09.2017
Omaha 3am skillet
OMAHA · WINTER 2017
Rooftop sunset band portrait
ROOFTOP · SUNSET 2018
Miami butter shrimp in cast iron
PORT OF MIAMI · 2016
Festival duo on Persian rug
FESTIVAL · RUG SESSION
The Pantry

five condiments · every one has a chapter

Each product on the shelf came out of a specific meal, a specific city, a specific late-night decision to keep going.

Magic City Hippies live crowd
The Band

magic city hippies

Sixty to eighty shows a year. If you’re in one of the cities, come out. The chorus in your head will make more sense afterwards.

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