I can walk out of my door on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and within minutes, grab a sandwich from Florence’s All’Antico Vinaio, walk a few blocks uptown and order a pizza from L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele, the legendary Neapolitan pizzeria. Once I’ve consumed these, I might linger downtown and order the tasting menu at the also legendary Roman, Roscioli or I could head further uptown, take a seat beneath red Murano glass chandeliers and tuck into the veal tonnato at the Monegasque Rampoldi. If feeling a bit more French than Italian I could choose between celebrity-watching at Caviar Kaspia, the Parisian institution with an outpost at the Mark Hotel or shell out a very reasonable $34 for steak frites at the just-reopened Le Relais de Venise.
