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So... I've kind of been plagued lately by the mystery of why Valois is always mentioned in the stories about Hyde Park. I mean, guys, it's a crappy little cafeteria (that is, apparently, better than you'd expect), with "SEE YOUR FOOD" written on the awning in larger letters than the name. It's one of those places you pass and go "What? Hmm..."
And then it hit me today, as I was reading through the Hyde Park restaurant inspections... I remembered that everything we have down here is either 1) owned by the University 2) Thai food or 3) a chain. No one is going to get interviewed in the Hyde Park Giordano's, no one is going to get interviewed in Bartlett (which barely passed its inspection. Go UofC! Way to learn from having BJ shut down!) Valois... Valois is apparently the only non-ethnic, non-national, non-university restaurant we have that people can sit down and talk in. (The two more infamous restaurants, student-wise, don't even seem to be on the list. Maybe Orly's isn't a restaurant anymore--it's had about five identity crises I've been aware of, each resulting in a more confusing theme (try eating pseudo-Italian in a restaurant decorated in southwest decor), and perhaps it's entirely a bakery now. And then there's Morry's Deli, where I've only ever heard of people getting food poisoning. However, even if they still exist, they're also not places where CNN could poke its head in and go "Hay guyz!")
No wonder I never go out to eat down here.
But seriously, national media. Valois? Seriously?
... Though at least they passed their inspection.
And then it hit me today, as I was reading through the Hyde Park restaurant inspections... I remembered that everything we have down here is either 1) owned by the University 2) Thai food or 3) a chain. No one is going to get interviewed in the Hyde Park Giordano's, no one is going to get interviewed in Bartlett (which barely passed its inspection. Go UofC! Way to learn from having BJ shut down!) Valois... Valois is apparently the only non-ethnic, non-national, non-university restaurant we have that people can sit down and talk in. (The two more infamous restaurants, student-wise, don't even seem to be on the list. Maybe Orly's isn't a restaurant anymore--it's had about five identity crises I've been aware of, each resulting in a more confusing theme (try eating pseudo-Italian in a restaurant decorated in southwest decor), and perhaps it's entirely a bakery now. And then there's Morry's Deli, where I've only ever heard of people getting food poisoning. However, even if they still exist, they're also not places where CNN could poke its head in and go "Hay guyz!")
No wonder I never go out to eat down here.
But seriously, national media. Valois? Seriously?
... Though at least they passed their inspection.
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