Ann Arbor #9 best College Town for Food per thedailymeal.com
April 16th, 2015 at 12:55 AM ^
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I don't think Gumby's is on the list, but dollar for dollar. . . no, that was still really crappy pizza.
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I grew up eating homemade Italian food. What about you?
And last I checked people of all colors go out to eat. Clearly, these places are engineered for more than just the white palate.
Stop being an ass.
Zingermans isn't even in the same ballpark as Bob fucking Evans.
What an ass.
I never saw Bo at Zingerman's.
What the hell are you talking about? What does race have to do with this? Besides there are plenty of restuarants that serve foods from different cultures. The Jamaican Jerk pit was a personal favorite and I also liked the same restuarants my white (and asian, and indian etc.) friends did, including a small indian place right down the street from where I lived.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:34 AM ^
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Either the jerk chicken, or curried chicken are both very good.
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April 16th, 2015 at 11:08 AM ^
I would personally smack someone for bringing a 15$ reuben sandwich to a group meeting as "study food". Dumb clickbait list is dumb.
Protip: just scroll through the thumbnails instead of clicking 20 times.
Zingermans is a special occasion. Study sandwiches are Jimmy Johns and Subway types.
I vividly recall sitting in Sweetwaters in Kerrytown studying one day, when two well-to-do sorority girls sat down near me to "study". After about 5 minutes of checking Facebook and gossiping, they decided that they just haaaaaad to go get some "Zingys" across the street before they could really start studying..
I don't know why, but my opinion of Zingermann's will be forever tainted by those two.
like good food, too. Don't let an isolated incident like that get in your way of a good sammich. As the Sandwich King says, life is better spent between two slices of bread.
April 16th, 2015 at 12:12 PM ^
Without really good bread, it can never be a really good sandwich, and that's where Zingermans is unbeatable in Ann Arbor, cost notwithstanding.
April 16th, 2015 at 10:56 AM ^
I don't understand this mentality at all, are "well-to-do" people not allowed to spend their money or enjoy good food? If I had the money during my time in AA, I would have gone to eat at Zingerman's more often too. That's no different than when I use to study in basement of Union, I would need to get a frosty from Wendy's before I really get started.
April 16th, 2015 at 11:16 AM ^
Eaxctly. This line of thinking makes no sense to me. I rarely ate Zingerman's when I was in college because I wasn't well to do, but had I been I would have eaten it a lot more because I think it's delicious. Now I eat it every time I go back.
So because some girls, who could afford it, like eating Zingerman's - that's a bad thing? I don't understand that.
Best random good Korean food around
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My wife lived above it while she was in grad school at RISD. Get some Johnny Cakes and you might change your mind.
April 16th, 2015 at 11:18 AM ^
Sometime cities like Austin and NO are left off these lists because they aren't necessarily college towns - they're big cities with a college (or colleges) in them. NY and LA are great food towns with colleges in them as well, but I think we'd all agree they don't belong on this list. You have to draw the line somewhere.
I live in Austin and I can tell you that while the food scene is quickly developing it definitely leaves a lot to be desired, especially around the campus area.
Don't get me wrong, I love BBQ, but Austin needs more food diversity (and when I say diversity I don't mean like the asshole way above referenced, engineered for white people or whatever)
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April 16th, 2015 at 12:30 PM ^
Fair enough. But the foody bits of Berkeley are discontinuous from the college parts. There are some right awful places on campus.
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I thought so too the first time I visited, but there's some good stuff there.
Anything in the Whiteaker neighborhood is pretty interesting. I had a fantastic meal at Izakaya Meiji, Papa Soul's, Ninkasi Brewing, and Vanilla Jill's Scoops and Soups for dessert.
the 5th street public market has a few interesting places, including the food court. Was a little disappointed with the burgers from NW Burgers, but Ocha and Marche aren't bad.
Across the street, Cornucopia is pretty great, and the Oregon Electric Station has been consistently good for a finer dining option.
For Thai, I've tried Ta Ra Rin and Sabai and liked them both. Very different atmospheres, but both were tasty.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Good if you look.
I've tried a handful of the places on the Eugene Weekly list and can vouch for its voracity ;)
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/20141106/lead-story/best-eugene-2014-2015
Next time I'm there, I'm going to try Off the Waffle. If it's anything like Waffle Window, I know I'll be a happy camper.
http://www.oregonlive.com/mix/index.ssf/best-restaurants-outside-portla…;
Also want to try the Korean places (noodle bowl, chingu, arirang) to see how authentic (or not) they are. Sometimes, you just want the food of your ancestors, know what I mean?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=crAv5ttax2I
April 16th, 2015 at 11:06 AM ^
Dang, did you live here? Impressive knowledge. Off the Waffle is worth the hype.
Also, there's no decent Chinese here. And no one here knows what pazckis are.
Firstly, your distinctly anti-white bigotry is not appreciated here. Secondly, you would not know "authentic" food if it hit you in the face. Third, Ann Arbor has no culture? You clearly haven't spent much time in the town. You also don't know what the word means as everything around you represents a culture. You might not like it, but it is a culture.Walmart, cookie cutter houses, soccer moms...this is a type of culture.
If you want authentic food you either must go to the nation where that food originates or eat in the home of people who cook using the recipes and ingredients of the old world. Restaurants are all under the pressure of generating a profit and/or are limited by availibility of certain ingredients or laws restricting how they prepare a certain food. That means all will make concessions. What you believe to be authentic is at best a fine facsimile.
You are no where nearly as worldly as you think yourself to be. You are an exceptionally arrogant, ignorant, human being. Oh and you are racist too. All in all, I'd say you are generally unlikeable person.
No reason to resort to insult and bile.
April 16th, 2015 at 11:30 AM ^
jblaze nailed it. No small college town (the subject of this list) will have Chinese food like San Francisco, Cuban food like Miami or Greek food like NYC. You just can't expect that.
Yes, the Korean restuarants where I lived in Koreatown, Los Angeles were more authentic than anything in any college town I'm sure, but that doesn't mean I have to think every other Korean restaurant in the US sucks just because it's not as authentic as one in a Korean neighborhood.