WHY For its fresh and dried housemade pastas, along with an array of high-end olives, cheeses, salumi, sauces, olive oils and vinegars.

WHAT Originally called the Divine Pasta Company, this place is now a high-end café and marketplace that stocks more than 85 varieties of cheese; salumi from Salumi Salame, the Fatted Calf and Pio Tosini; an excellent selection of oils, vinegars, salts and syrups; and such foodie essentials as capers, fresh pesto and Laguiole knives.

WHO The Eaters, the Shoppers, the Wine Bar Hoppers, but not so much the Cooks and the Dinner-Party Throwers.