Cold Bowl of Summer
Warm weather and sun calls for food that is refreshing and doesn’t sit too heavily in the gut. Nothing’s worse than running carefree through a field of daisies, only to be suddenly incapacitated due to a surplus of fatty, slow-settling calories erupting back out of your stomach. As an avid lover of prancing through fields [...]
Pint of Love
What’s better than a big hunk of grapefruit for breakfast? A lot of things. But if you’re in the tart citrus delicious arena, why not go for a pint of blood orange sorbet? You get the best of so many worlds. The taste is one of those tastes where you’re forced to close your eyes for [...]
Morning Glory
It’s 5:30 and I don’t want to drink any more bad coffee. I can’t stop thinking about how bad this badness is in front of me. Dux Bistro, I’m sorry, but you just can’t fulfill my needs. Your joe is like liquid dust reheated in a microwave several times over. I’m not one to pour [...]
Variety Show
Yogurt Xtreme (the new frozen yogurt shop on 13th St.) isn’t exactly anything special. The frozen yogurt tastes like frozen yogurt from every other yogurt institution. The peanut butter flavor did melt me a little bit inside (especially when combined with fresh bananas, hot fudge, and whipped cream), but the place itself awakened no raving [...]
No Bananas?
I’ve always had mixed feelings about bananas. The taste has never been anything particularly tantalizing to my tongue, and the texture inspires no excitement across my neural pathways. Plus, they are one of the most awkward foods to eat around people whose maturity levels are not around the sophisticated level. In fact, I hardly ever [...]
Pie Love
Cupcakes, hold on to your frosting hats and paper lining coats, because your little fluffy minds are about to be blown. I don’t care how much sanding sugar or pastel fondant is atop your sweet heads. You’ll never measure up to the food trend that’s about to displace you. Pie is more than a three-letter [...]
Never Waffle Over Waffles.
Breakfast has a special little nook in my soul. The familiar smell of frying fatty batter in fatty butter triggers endorphins to start coursing through my veins like I’ve just run a marathon. It’s almost a waste to put breakfast in the morning, when so often I’m not fully conscious and up to appreciating the [...]
Dickie Jo's Burgers
Lucky 1952 is right. From the creatures of Mucho’s Gusto and Le Fina Taqueria comes another delicious concept of a restaurant, this time in the form of a 50′s Burger joint. Just down the street from campus on 13th and Pearl sits a brightly lit restaurant. If you pay close enough attention on the outside [...]
Off the Waffle
Hopefully, we have all heard the buzz already about the dank-ass waffles down in the Whiteaker neighborhood. On 7th and Van Buren sits a delightfully charming new waffle house. They serve two waffles, the original or the special. They are amazing, and have little pockets of pure caramelized sugar gold. Secret recipe not included. Their [...]
