Dinner for two at the Hummus Place.  This cozy Upper West Side restuarant has a vegetarian menu featuring excellent hummos and, according to one review, the best falafel in New York City.

From "New York Magazine:" no one has taken the chickpea spread as seriously—or single-mindedly—as this 28-seat shrine to the dense, creamy, tahini-enriched dip that’s all too often relegated to combo-plate status in falafel-and-kebab joints. "Portions are deceptively filling, bona fide meals in fact, served with extra-puffy pitas warmed in a beat-up Black & Decker toaster oven, and a small dish of pickles, hot peppers, and cracked olives. Wherever you find Israeli hummus, you will find mint lemonade; here, it’s subtly flavored with rose water, sold by the glass as well as the carafe, and as refreshing as a restaurant that’s content to do one thing only, painstakingly well."