There was this one mom and pop burger joint that had the simplest, most basic, super greasiest burgers but to this day they were the best burgers I’ve ever tasted. The place was tucked away in an alley and it was one of those “you have to be a local to even know this exists” places.
Also, having moved from a smaller town to a bigger city, I miss how close everything and everyone was. You wanted to go see someone, or go do something, it was always just a walk away instead of having to deal with all the hullabaloo of traffic and bus lines and yada yada.
That sounds amazing, not silly at all. One of my neighboring towns used to do something similar back home. They had like a “Christmas Alley” I think it was called where everything was decked out to the nines in lights and decorations, people (including my family) would drive through just to see it.