Two young entrepreneurs pursue profitability with a new Web site being tested in Athens that plans to provide restaurants with closer communication with their clientele. The Web site, eatcollege.com, hopes to give local students an online restaurant guide complete with the ability to order food from any local food delivery business.
Do not be one of the 7,800 students with a meal plan who enter Nelson, Boyd, Jefferson or Shively and blindly pick industrialized grub set out for them.
With the opening of Court Street Coffee, uptown Athens will be the lovely owner of a fifth coffee house. Nestled in the old storefront of Baron Men’s Shop at 67 S. Court St., Court Street Coffee provides a unique coffee solution to fulfill student needs.
This Halloween, do not conform to the traditional pumpkin uses. After carving a wicked witch, spooky-cat or Scooby Doo, take pumpkin uses a little further by using your scraps to cook some delicious recipes or show off your craft skills.
Ascending on the bike trail is like staring at an old fashioned photograph or a black and white movie still of the pastoral South. Past the overgrown prairie and rust-covered freight trains and across the Hocking River Bridge exists a culinary delight a bit more personal than ordinary Court Street fare.
Pawpaws, a relative of other such wackily named plants as the sweetsop, soursop, cherimoya and ylang-ylang (pronounced EE-lang), arrive to adulthood in the Appalachian area, which apparently is enough of a reason to have a festival dedicated to them.
Athens food culture sometimes feels like Lady Gaga — a strange but successful blend of the mainstream and the innovative. These brick streets are home to both Chipotle and Big Mamma’s, Quizno’s and Bagel Street Deli, Donkey Coffee and Baker’s pseudo-Starbucks — so many options, so little funding. There is one restaurant that has recently reopened that does not have a mainstream counterpart: Salaam.
Despite the near-hurricane that deprived the happy-go-lucky moods of many, International Street Fair wanderers clenched their umbrellas tightly to get a taste of culture, traditional clothing and, most importantly, enough delicious food to drool a flood.
While it seemed like everyone else in Athens was basking in sunlight Saturday afternoon, I rode my K-Mart mountain bike to the Market on State Street parking lot for the weekly farmers’ market. Traditionally, I arrived a little late.
Zoe, a fine food restaurant on East State Street, lays the foundation for a romantic night out or a great way to undo last night’s bang-up, blowout with any given girl or boy.