My friend owns Shish on Grand Ave. it is fabulous!
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IU alum here and had a great experience in Bloomington, my only regret is I wasn’t really brave/mature/outgoing enough in some ways to get everything out of such a huge school while on campus (that being said…I did apply for and spend a year abroad in Aix-en-Provence my junior year- hands down the best experience). The restaurants have always seemed to have been a wonderfully eclectic selection of cuisine, going back 20+ years since I graduated.
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Madison. Of these we love Tornado. Near the Capitol.
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From this list, Monty’s, Lazy Jane’s, and Dotty’s are some of my favorites. (Tornado is a longtime favorite, too, though I’m not much of a steak person, so I never went – but I’ve heard good things).
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Can’t wait to try during the campus tour in early April at Macalester!
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Trying to get in on a tour for DD who is applying to transfer. Will be there visiting several schools and they only have accepted student visit the day we are free- said there probably won’t be room 
. Will definitely be hitting Shish. DD loved their cheese pies when she was 4 and still remembers them and can’t wait to have some.
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I’d call the department she is trying to transfer to and ask them if they have a soph or jr who could show her around ‘informally.’ She could get a private tour for the price of a coffee.
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She’s undecided on a major. But I suppose we could contact a department.
I’m not sure if you’re talking about Macalester still, but I bet that any school’s office for transfer students would be able to arrange a tour. The contact for Mac’s is at the bottom of this page Transfer Applicants - Admissions & Aid
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That’s fantastic intel. Still seems a trip where you learned a lot to help better focus.
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My guess is that, like the “Tacoma aroma”, it stops being noticeable when one lives there. But it’s definitely a factor on a visit.
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My S24 scratched Macalester for similar reasons. Acknowledged the excellent academics and fantastic location, just did not like the actual campus at all.
C’est la vie. And there are many other fish in the sea.
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You should review colleges for a living !!! The description was incredible.
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My understanding is that you only smell the factory in certain weather/wind conditions. In fact, some people at St. Olaf claimed to be able to forecast the weather based on the presence of the smell. When we visited, we did not notice it at all until we had left both campuses and were on our way out of town.
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We live here. The new homeless shelter is actually a bit out (the old one used to be right around the corner). Community kitchen is in Carrboro (a few blocks away). However, with fare free public bus system (funded by UNC student fees, and property taxes from both towns and the county), it’s easy to get around here. My kids use them often and it’s not unusual to see even 8, or 9 years olds riding public bus going home from their schools. In many buses, you will see homeless, UNC students, faculty, physicians, nurses, and even just town folks - it’s a college town with no parking!
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This reminds me of when we lived in Hoboken, New Jersey many years ago. There was a Maxwell House instant coffee factory in the neighborhood and, every night, coming home from work in Manhattan, I would smell that coffee aroma. I quite liked it. I wonder if it still happens and whether the students at Stevens Institute can smell it.
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The Maxwell House factory in Hoboken closed many years ago. They’re now expensive condos (Maxwell Place!)
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That’s too bad, although probably inevitable. Well, I still have a photo of the factory sign hanging in my kitchen in France!
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We also did not notice it when we visited.
We noticed it driving in and out (you go right past it), but not when we were on campus at Carleton. And for those brief moments at least, I personally loved it. But I was also the sort of person who thought cereal always deserved to be a three-meal-a-day option . . . .
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