Proper gear is essential, including a sweater and rainproof jacket, hiking boots or sturdy sneakers, food and water.
Back on 10th Avenue at 22nd Street, the venerable Empire Diner has a menu of sturdy comfort food, including breakfast if you're making a day of it.
If you want a jolly night out, you will find it -- plus good, sturdy Swedish food -- at Sturehof, a revitalized brasserie, dating from the 1920's, which is to Stockholm as Balthazar is to New York.
The sturdy, reliable food includes fried oysters and clams and slow-roasted aged prime ribs of beef as well as rosemary-grilled lamb loin, Caribbean spiced pork chop and pesto-roasted scrod and other seafood.
Don't even try to make this unless you've got a sturdy, powerful food processor – you'll need to blitz the nuts on high speed for a fair while to persuade them to release their natural oils and transform from gritty meal to smooth butter.
This simple place, run by Mexican chef, Jesus Serrano, and his mother, Heleodora Vivar, serves sturdy, reliable Mexican food like tostadas, soft tacos, quesadillas and mole de pollo — chicken served in a mole sauce.
I don't think any other New York restaurant combines this many Pilseners with food this sturdy.
But vegetable samosas came wrapped in pastry that was all too sturdy; and like bar food, rings of squid were battered and fried, but with Indian spices.
Copious courses of sturdy, well-prepared Italian food are served family style, $19 a person, starting with light but gooey arancini and ending with big, cloudlike zeppole in a honey dip.
