Best $5 I’ve spent all week: the “cold plate” at Istanbul Grille (643 Liberty Ave., Downtown). Red kidney + green bean salad; creamy, spicy eggplant; hearty grape leaves; unspeakably addictive oil + vinegar-dressed iceberg, purple cabbage and shredded carrots with a big scoop of that thick, grainy hot sauce you get on roadside falafel in Israel.

Worth the walk past the construction workers who’ve taken up lunchtime residence outside my office (catcall season has begun… jerkfaces).