If you come to New York, you will eventually find yourself with a bagel-in-hand. This is an inevitability because 1) New York is absolutely full of bagel shops and delis that sell bagels and bakeries professing to bake bagels that actually bake round bread and 2) once you meet someone who has lived in New York for a time, he (it’s usually a he-Yorker who practices this kind of knowingly perverse behavior) will force you to eat bagels until you go diabetic. Once you are sufficiently bagel-in-hand, a question of surprising significance arises: what should you put on a bagel? Continue reading
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Top 5 Under $5 at 5: Columbia Edition
Eating out in college usually means eating on a budget. Every week, we’ll take a look at the best cheap eats around a different college—defining cheap eats as anything hovering under $5. Why $5? No particular reason—it’s an arbitrary value chosen for its easy convertibility into change and synergy with other “5’s”—a top 5 list published at 5 pm.
New York City presents unique challenges for student restaurant goers. High rents translate into magnified restaurant prices, making dining out on spare change especially difficult. For all the complaining (and shrill whining) about Morningside Heights, Columbia’s backyard hosts numerous student-friendly (and student-targeted) eateries. In fact, picking the best dishes under $5 was tough, what with all the famous(ly greasy) student food for sale. Continue reading
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Bruegger’s Bagels Make Studying Bearable
Joy D., Wellesley College
Sometimes, college students have to get off campus- this is especially true at Wellesley, where stress is rampant during midterm season. Personally, I like going somewhere within walking distance, and Bruegger’s bakery is the most convenient stop. Continue reading
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A Bagel to Finagle For
Josh B., University of Virginia
As a person of the Jewish faith more than acquainted with my religion’s
brunch cuisine, I do not take the consumption of bagels lightly.
In fact, it took an entire semester last year before building up the
courage to enter Bodo’s Bagels on the Corner and ordering a single
everything bagel for 70 cents. I remember biting into that bagel and
instantly regretting two things: waiting an entire semester to try
Bodo’s…and only ordering one bagel. Continue reading
Filed under Dining Suggestions, Josh B., University of Virginia
