We each took a bite but didn’t really like it. We were starving so we decided to stop in at Luigi’s Pizza across the street and share a slice before we headed downtown – just the fuel we needed! On our way, we passed so many pizza places it seemed there was one on at least every other block! Somewhere along the way we stopped in at one of the Ray’s* Pizza places just for fun. When my husband and I first met, I remember one time we decided to walk to dinner from his apartment on West 53rd and 8th down to the East Village (around 10 th street) where we would end up at a place called PizzaPizza. Recently we were in NYC and while waiting to be seated at Lombardi’s Pizza (just had to get in another pizza plug!), my husband showed up with a tray of Melissa’s Cupcakes for us to nosh on while we waited 45 minutes for our table! After dinner, we went to Rice to Riches for rice pudding for dessert. My husband and I were doing food crawls since we met without even knowing it – we’re such trend setters! More often than not, we had dinner one place and dessert at another. Any big city will afford you this opportunity.

Living in NYC, food crawls are a part of daily life. There is also a progressive food crawl where you might have drinks and appetizers at one restaurant, dinner at another, then dessert and coffee at different location. For example, you can do one in search of the best restaurant, or specific food such as coffee crawl, or taco crawl. I would define a food crawl as follows: where one goes on a culinary tour to different restaurants to sample food. However, on the Food Network, Cooking Channel and in many culinary magazines you hear and read about it quite frequently. If you search for the term “food crawl” on the internet you won’t find too much information.

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