It’s been five years since New York bred Colombian-American Cyndi Ramirez-Fulton opened the doors to her first ever Chillhouse location, formerly known as Chillhouse version 1.0, in the Lower East Side. Ramirez-Fulton’s main objective with Chillhouse was and still is for fellow New Yorkers to experience a chilltime amongst the hustle and bustle they live with throughout their day in the big city, by savoring the pleasures of self care via a manicure, a massage, and clean yet delectable lattes and noshes in the café.
“I hated some of the spa names out there because they felt a little bland, cold, and expected and I thought about the place I wanted to build and felt the word ‘house’ was a word I liked in a brand because it’s a place people feel comfortable in,” said Ramirez-Fulton. “As for the word ‘chill’, I felt that I haven’t really seen it used in the context of this particular space, and culturally it's a word that we all used growing up and a word we still use in our everyday verna...