The menu here is full of dozens of Northern Italian and Italian-American recipes, from homemade ravioli stuffed with porcini mushrooms to juicy cuts of filet mignon served as sliders.

Considered among the city's best museums for kids, CMA features exhibits, hands-on art making workshops, a media lab, ball pond, and more.

Devi is palatial, but not in the sense of unattainable grandeur—rather, it seems stuffed to the gills with earthly comforts and visual delights that completely insulate it from the world outside.

A collection of 27,000 paintings, sculptures, and multimedia exhibits that dovetail into a collage of art and Jewish culture from across centuries and continents.

Upscale take on European plates such as wild-mushroom spätzle served with Italian or Austrian wine.

Like most good ideas, Gymboree Play and Music didn't begin in a business meeting—it began out of necessity in 1976 when a mom found herself frustrated with the lack of safe places for her kids to play.

Dickson's Farmstand Meats doesn't keep secrets: everything that's edible arrives at the shop as a whole animal from small-scale family farms in upstate New York.

Stepping into Duane Park is like stepping back in time. Inside the turn-of-the-century dining room, chandeliers from a Louisiana plantation sprinkle light on the scene below, where visitors sip on handcrafted cocktails and clean their invisible monocles.

Each treatment on this boutique spa's menu is designed to mimic the healing, relaxing effects of white tea and after each treatment, guests are rewarded with a cup of white tea itself served in an English-style tea house.

Between 1863 and 1935, more than 7,000 working class families called 97 Orchard home, and through the efforts of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, their stories have sprung to life again in six painstakingly restored apartments.

Old-World and modern cuisines collide at this Balkan and Mediteranean food restaurant that serves meat and veggie tapas, kebabs, and spreads.

This shop's founders only deal with small farmers who practice sustainable programs without using antibiotics or growth hormones. That means they stock their shelves with a massive variety of seasonal, American-raised meats.

Rather than trying to harness all of Italy's regional cuisines, Mezzogiorno conjures a favorite Florentine cucina in an art-filled SoHo dining room.

The aestheticians at Village Four Nails and Spa call many of their services rituals—an apt name since the staff spends a lot of time making sure that a client's every need is seen to and often start appointments by offering them a complimentary glass of champagne.

In addition to 10 vegan dishes and 12 vegetarian entrees, the kitchen prepares everything from southern dosas to Punjabi saag cooked with lamb, goat, chicken tikka, potatoes, or paneer cheese.

Black lights illuminate your opponent as electronic music pulses in the background. You raise your paddle, and swing. The Ping-Pong match begins. This scene unfolds every night at Spin New York, a self-described ''Ping-Pong social club.''

Along with lentils, flour, beans, grains, and other groceries, spices from around the world supply flavoring for almost any kind of dish