Eden Alley isn't strictly vegetarian, but that's the primary focus of a constantly changing menu, where different variations of pizza, quesadillas, and pasta share the limelight with the usual suspects (a damn veggie burger, hummus with pita). In just a portion of the massive space on the lower level of Unity Temple on the Plaza, this bustling restaurant serves lunch and dinner in an atmosphere that's one part 1960s hippie cool and one part kinda now, kinda wow. Many diners love it because the place is so totally anti-Plaza, yet right there -- just a skip away from Saks Fifth Avenue, Z Galleria, and all the slicker, trendier Plaza restaurants. At Eden Alley, two perfectly coiffed matrons in St. John knits can be sitting a table away from two pierced, tattooed Goth kids and the focus is still on the food.
