Eataly!

Yesterday I met my friend whose work visa had just been denied at Eataly, which just had opened two days before, and is happily located two blocks from my office. For fickle New Yorkers, "the next big thing" can be pretty illusive and often changes in a New York minute. In this case, the next big thing really is big -- 50,000 square feet - and is a dazzling, amazing, joyful Willie Wonka like experience for adults.

As we embraced the best pizza I've ever eaten (in fact two of them!) with a glass of barbera wine, and just enjoyed the pleasure of simple, great food, I could sense she was already feeling better...and the future seemed wide open.

And Eataly goes into my working "Wow, New York is getting better" file!