Run Week in New York, Seven Tables Deep

Mama Mezze on Broadway, 4.9, is a good answer to a long run because the plates arrive in the middle and nobody has to order alone. Take the mezze, skip the fried, and drink more water than the table thinks is reasonable.

Sandwell at 250 3rd Avenue, 5.0 from 103 reviews, keeps a recovery day light without making it joyless. Toasted sandwiches on house-baked bread and nothing that asks for a fork. Book nothing after this one.

Bocca di Bacco on Ninth Avenue, 4.4, is a pasta room that can hold a group without turning the evening into an event. Order two pastas for four people and one secondi — the walk back along the avenue is the cooldown.

Bar Primi in the Penn District, 4.2, sits close enough to the platforms that a pre-commute dinner works. One pasta, one glass, no dessert. The timing is the point rather than the menu.

Lulla at 113 West 24th Street, 4.8 from 1,250 reviews, is where a Friday run ends with one plate at the bar. Order as you go, keep it short, and leave when the food is done.

Butter Smash Burgers on St Marks, 4.5, is the meal for the day when the run was easy. Order one, eat standing, and walk it off toward the park — no table, no ceremony, no guilt.

Masseria East on Third Avenue, 4.7, gives the week a seated ending with Italian plates and a quiet room. Share one dessert and take the long route home. The training starts again tomorrow.