Some people go on pub crawls. We go on food crawls.
We started out at Ping's Seafood in Chinatown for dim sum. We hit the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory for some green tea ice cream, and then a third course of assorted breads and pastries at Le Pain Quotidian in Soho. The next stop was the Lower East Side and a visit to Katz's for pastrami and beer (with a short moment of silence for the Second Avenue Deli), followed by a quick hop up to the East Village for assorted appetizers at Tigerland. Tigerland is really good, you should go there. The last stop was to be the strangely Japanese east 9th street for for octopus balls at Otakfuku, but it was getting late and our daughter needed to get to bed.
And we didn't even need to leave the city.