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Amongst foodies, restaurants tips are traded like currency, valued according to a complex, and highly secret, algorithm. An ostentatious French restaurant with imported china, excessive drapery and a wine list longer than the OED is worth pennies–any unwitting diner can find it simply by opening their latest copy of Zagat’s to “Most Popular.” In this world, points are subtracted for celebrity chefs, and service and decor are only a detraction from delicious food, not a means to an end. The Holy Grail, the establishment that serves...
...that barely indicate the contents of a dish. Ordering often results in surprise, but the staff will helpfully translate the daily specials, explain how foods are prepared and suggest particular items. The liberal use of fresh chiles leaves a gentle tingling sensation on the tongue, but never sends a diner madly scrambling for water. And because everything is cooked to order, seasoning levels can be adjusted for personal preference. However, spicing is best left to the chefs, who delicately balance flavors amongst saltiness, sweetness, sourness and bitterness, a hallmark of any good Cambodian meal...
While they decided not to revive the old practice of ringing their bronze gong every time an unwanted diner enters, Adams residents have volunteered to help the dining hall staff police the flow of diners at the checker desk...
Alas, dessert. Once again, an honest waitstaff came to the rescue of the indecisive diner faced with very standard dessert choices—sorbet, crème brulée, apple gallette, bread pudding, something chocolate. In their opinion, the sorbet was really good, and while the traditional crème brulée was really great and made with excellent vanilla, a chocolate lover simply had to try the chocolate pudding cake. The sorbet trio was a duo at Metropolis ($7) and once again, this gold standard of the remaining desserts had just a little something extra that made...
Today, the absence of The Tasty, the diner that Matt Damon took Minnie Driver to in the movie Good Will Hunting, is still conspicuous. No 24-hour restaurant has replaced it. There is an IHOP just down Soldiers Field Road, but due to the scarcity of cars among students, few experience the joys of pancakes...