The Greatest College Town Eats

SI ^ | August 12, 2019 | Joan Niesen and Laken Litman

[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.

[JBW1949]

Grady’s is very good...

There was a place on the south side of the Henley Street Bridge that a lot of the UT football players and basketball players would go to...Also you could see Archie Cambpell there quite often last Saturday or early Sunday morning as he went home from the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville...

It was called Smokey Mountain Market....GREAT hot dogs!!!!

[dfwgator]

In Gainesville, for me, it was “Skeeters”.

Place was packed at 4am.

[IndispensableDestiny]

3: Hoagie Haven Princeton, NJ.

The standard by which I measure all sub shops.

[JBW1949]

I know what you mean...The Smokey Mountain Market I mentioned above was open 24 hours a day every day...The only time they ever closed was in August, 1945 for VJ Day...

[JBW1949]

I was attending NBC Warfare School in Philadelphia in 1968 and there was a little hole-in-the-wall place on Chestnut Street that had REAL Philly Cheesesteaks.....

I have had many in many places since then, but NEVER had one as good as theirs...

[chesley]

Sorry to say, Archibald's ain't what it used to be. The sauce is still the best ever, but the meat tastes most like closed-pit than the delicious open pit they used to be. Don't know how they did that, as they still seem to have the same pit.

[John 3_19-21]

Rudy’s Oswego N.Y.

[Starstruck]

Grady’s is where there was always a waiting list and they would call on something like “Jones, Party of 7?”. So I would always use “Donner. “. ‘Donner, party of 8?”. Some people found it humorous.

[combat_boots]

Get outta town

Ivar’s? In a can?

[JBW1949]

Oh Lord!!!! That’s funny!!!!!

[combat_boots]

Schmidt’s

Bar none

Hot Bahama Mama
Hot potato salad
Cold slaw
Home Brew (dark)
Best cream puffs this side of Heaven

Back in the day there really was a one-man band
You could go sing with the old Nazis who came out at night
Auf Deutsch
I am not exactly joking, either

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Close. In a plastic tub. Sold at Albertson’s Grocery (Safeway). The big problem is it is too addictive, so I don’t dare buy it but a couple times a year!

[NELSON111]

Spent many nights at the Dixie Chicken (#6) when I was at A&M. My dorm was right across the street. Dunked my Aggie ring in a pitcher of Shiner and managed to hold the tradition of drinking it down within the allotted time of my class number in seconds (‘92). Great memories.

[combat_boots]

I take it they will drop ship

This has possibilities

Now, as for the bread.,,,