Bring your cultural appetite to Irvington, a small river town with big city clout. The village satiates cravings for both finer dining and art outside museum walls, with restaurants, galleries and art studios straddling its Main Street as it slopes towards the SoHo-style loft buildings along the waterfront. It counts Astors, Tiffanys and Hamiltons among its past residents, not to mention Cosmopolitan magazine — Stanford White designed their historic headquarters in 1895, and it’s still here. The silhouette of Manhattan’s skyline hangs on the horizon as the hills of northern Hudson Valley roll towards distant rural abandon. Wander Scenic Hudson Park, by the train station, or visit the Public Library’s Reading Room, where Louis Comfort Tiffany’s aquamarine glass mosaics still shine under restored lanterns. Irvington’s duality of downtown affairs and a sweeping landscape that keeps frenetic energy at bay makes you feel like you can have your cake and eat it, too — try a gluten-free one from Red Barn Bakery.