Bluffs, Burgers, and the West Side Dark

Pincushion is a real hike — not a stroll — and doing something physically demanding together early in the night creates a kind of shared shorthand that carries through dinner. Krafty gives you the calories and the comedown, a lively room where you can talk about what you just did. Kalamoir at the end is the quiet counterweight: dark, high up, and looking back across the water at everything you came from.

The route