It's so sad to see the institutions you loved in college bite the dust.
Posted on 08/15/2019 8:28:49 AM PDT by C19fan
In honor of college football's 150th anniversary, we scoured college towns to find out which restaurants, dive bars and hole-in-the-wall food joints serve up the greatest grub. Read on to find out the top 10 drool-worthy spots in college football.
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10: Waffle House
9: Mamaleh’s Cambridge, MA
8: Mother's Bear Bloomington, IN
7: Archibald’s Auscaloosa, Ala.
6: Dixie Chicken College Station, Texas
5: Simply Pressed South Bend, Ind.
4: Zingerman’s Ann Arbor, Mich.
3: Dotty Dumpling’s Dowry Madison, Wisc.
2: Veracruz All Natural Austin, Texas
1: Booches Columbia, Mo.
You missed Litton’s and Calhouns in Knoxville...
Yeah. I had Calhoun’s in Gatlinburg; yummy. The one in Knoxville is right on the TN River.
1: Creamery at Penn State. The agricultural dept at Penn State runs their own creamery and ice cream shop.
2: Greasy Tony's New Brunswick, NJ.
3: Hoagie Haven Princeton, NJ.
Zingerman’s is top notch. Every time I’ve been there I had to wait in a long line outside, but their sandwiches are legendary.
The photos of dishes from most of those dishes looked pretty blah, especially the place in Alabama where they serve what looks like Bush’s canned baked beans.
Without a doubt Shakespear’s Pizza in Columbia, MO.
Where is the Varsity?
Yep...Right down from Neyland Stadium....
Louis’ Lunch est. 1895.
Order a “burger-a-plenty” and sweet tea.
I went to the Varsity right off the GT campus. I ate in the room with the school room chair/mini table and watched TV while eating my hot dog. Although I did get a funny look from the woman taking my order when I asked where the ketchup is and told her no mustard.
It has been years since I have been to Husky Stadium for a Washington Husky game but you used to able to get Ivar’s clam chowder in a hollowed-out half loaf of fresh-baked bread with a hard outer crust. When you finished, all you had left to dispose of was the plastic spoon. Best food I have had at any stadium anywhere.
Oh yeah. I love eating those from Boudin’s in the SF Bay area.
It is a required taste, the Varsity. I wouldn’t eat there every day. But, it is an experience.
I went to law school at U of MO (Columbia) for a year, and never jeard of Booch’s. I wasn’t really tuned into campus life, and it may have been a thing, but not a big thing.
Some of the most famous University hangouts actually don’t do so well. U of Chicago had Jimmy’s Woodlawn Tap (where famous profs once went), and it never had that many people there. More people went to Morry’s pedestrian “deli” or Harold’s Chicken Shack, or the Medici. Jimmy’s is closed. So is Medici. Harold’s moved down the street, started selling bad pizza and lost its cachet.
In Columbia, my preferred hangout was Famous Freddies (deep fried onion brick for $2!). It is long closed as well.
They didn’t scour very hard. Hickory Park in Ames Iowa is better than almost that entire list, and I have eaten at 4 of them on the list.
Denco’s in Norman, Oklahoma. The absolute king of grease. Been closed for 30 years but should have received an honorable mention.
In the 80’s I would stay for for a week or so every couple of months in Knoxville while doing field work at Oak Ridge. I would always hit Grady’s a couple of times.
It's so sad to see the institutions you loved in college bite the dust.
Ivar’s Clam Chowder is now sold in grocery stores and is excellent. I have a tub in the fridge as we speak.
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