Whenever my friends express interest in riding somewhere with me, they ask where we would go. Since most of these friends also like to eat (BTW, none of them are Clydes/Athenas), I usually try to combine the two where the destination is a restaurant and the trip is of sufficient length to be challenging, but not daunting.

Being in NYC, there's millions of choices, but so far I've done the following trips with my non-riding friends:

The Pizza, Ice Cream and Chocolate Ride! Brick oven pizza from Grimaldi's, ice cream from the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory and chocolate from Jacques Torres, all in the DUMBO/Brooklyn Heights area.

The Coney Island Hotdogs and Cyclone Ride! Hotdogs, cheesefries, fried clams and beer at Nathans followed (or preceded) by rides on the Cyclone. Alas, the Cyclone wasn't operating when we went so we drowned our sorrows in cheesefries.

So who else likes to combine trips to eat with their rides?