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From grungy to chic: Julep is born

By Christopher Muther

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 20, 2011

Taniya Nayak, the home interior guru who serves as designer/host of HGTV’s “House Hunters on Vacation’’ and the Food Network’s “Restaurant: Impossible,’’ knows her way around a bar. At Julep, the recently-opened Financial District watering hole that she designed, the effervescent Nayak insists on mixing up a batch of mint juleps - at 11 a.m. “Well, we at least have to try them,’’ she says as she starts dropping fresh mint leaves into a glass.

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