Fall trips restaurant list #2

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<p>With many thanks to concerneddad for the idea, we are also lining up college visits and would appreciate any food advice:</p>

<p>Troy/Albany NY (visiting Renssalaer): I have heard that Verdile’s is the best of the local Italian places (and everyone’s Italian there, right? :slight_smile: )</p>

<p>Chicago (UChicago): We lived there once, but the kids were just babes, so I’m sure most of our favorites are gone</p>

<p>Portland OR (Reed)</p>

<p>Palo Alto & Environs (Stanford)</p>

<p>Many thanks, and why not make this an add-to list? I’ll bet others are taking fall trips to other places too.</p>

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<p>I don’t know much about those places, but here’s a thread with a discussion on colleges/surrounding cities in Texas: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=84247[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=84247&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Best site for such information that I know of is chowhound.com. Does not cover all parts of the US thoroughly, but Palo Altp (SF area) and Chicago ought to be well covered.</p>

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<p>Reed actually has a list of suggestions as well as hotel suggestions on their webiste
( Mallory in southwest portland for both Hotel and place for breakfast)
Portland has great restaurants
<a href=“http://web.reed.edu/apply/restaurantslist.html[/url]”>http://web.reed.edu/apply/restaurantslist.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>In Portland, I can vouch for the Heathman Hotel Restaurant and the Wildwood, from a trip many years back.</p>

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<p>well Marite you have a bigger expense account than me :)</p>

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<p>Also in Portland: Jakes (seafood), the Ringside (steak), and Kornblatt’s (deli)</p>

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<p>I promised the 15 yr old we would go to that dessert place in northwest portland but the name escapes me</p>

<p>( I looked it up)
Papa Hadyns
we had gone there when we went for graduation last spring with about 20 others. Big dessert menu</p>

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<p>EK, it was someone else’s expense account :)</p>

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<p>Yee ha! We can do Palo Alto for you! My S is standing here and say, “Tell them to go to Tamarine”. That’s an upscale Vietnamese place. What kind of food do you like and what is your hotel budget? How long will you be here? What airport are you flying into? This has been my home for at least 35 of my 48 years…And yes, Chowhound for the SF Bay Area is great and does cover our area well.</p>

<p>I hope you like a) Chinese b) Vietnamese c) California wine and Cal-Italian…And there’s this great family restaurant in Menlo Park run by a Sicilian family called Trattoria Buon Gusto, grandma cooks and daughter cooks and they argue and the grand-daughter visits…So do tell.</p>

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<p>I’m very fond of the Castagna cafe in Portland (17th and SE Hawthorne). There are two restaurants in one, both named Castagna and one less formal and somewhat cheaper. Both excellent.</p>

<p>Pix Patisserie is a wonderful dessert-and-wine place also near Reed. 34th and SE Division. Not quite as good as the patisseries in Paris, but a lot easier to get to ;-)</p>