These vary from mom and pop operations to stylish new slick restaurants.
nytimes.com/shiftingcareers THE BRONX IS MORE THAN JUST YANKEE STADIUM From Art Deco buildings to slick restaurants and a growing artists' colony, the borough offers more than baseball and beer-soaked bars.
Less expected is the city's emerging jazz scene, slick restaurants, artisan food shops (Cacao Sampaka sells beautifully packaged chocolate infused with exotic herbs and spices) or the fact that you can now take a tour of award-winning bodegas with a former Gleneagles sommelier (mallorcawinetours.com).
More than two-thirds of the town's shops are occupied, including a downtown-slick restaurant, 55 Main, with spotlights and arty furnishings.
Despite my meager budget, I realized I could afford to eat at Aguaviva, a slick seafood restaurant on Calle Fortaleza.
The most remarkable thing about the menu at IO Osteria Personale, a slick, innovative restaurant that opened a year and a half ago in Florence, may be what is missing.
Despite the untucked appearance of the Pines, it is surprisingly easy to spend what you would in a slick Manhattan restaurant.
The slick MEZZ RESTAURANT AND BAR (011-852-2523-8989, $100for lunch, $100 for dinner, including wine) in the Prince's Building attracts an appropriately slick lunch crowd.
These days the food and the slick conservatory restaurant are a match for the views over this area of outstanding natural beauty.
1a Cannon Court, Long Row W, NG1 6JE; 0115 955 1013; alleycafe.co.uk Tamatanga, Nottingham This independent but slick Indian restaurant is committed to recycling, using its waste oil and food for renewable energy, and always using sustainably sourced produce.
