Yeah that's the crappy thing about Welch Ave Station. I do love heading there after games for beers and ordering tons of food from Pizza Pit
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As far as I know. They are pretty fantastic though. Exact same pie as GPS&D. Kind of a chicken or egg thing from what I've gathered.
ahhh, this probably explains why my kid was always buying gum and getting cash back at the convenience store there (think it was a Quik Trip in my day, maybe a Kum & Go now?). Probably wasn't his bank's ATM in WAS.
He was in a panic when he lost it and I told him just go back to the last place you used it. He said the clerk had a pile of cards there people had left/lost, at least two dozen. Probably all doing the same thing.
That's kind of the problem with Ames's food situation. Not a lot of great stuff. Now, I love pizza so, to me, Jeffs is awesome (probably a lot of nostalgia there) but outside of that there's just a lot of options so HP is usually where I gravitate. When it's sold as a BBQ joint, though, it's going to disappoint a lot of people.
The Spice is amazing. Is that place still open? Where I found my love of Thai food!
What is it with people and the love for Jeffs. Its not great pizza at all. Good for an after bar snack I'll grant you...
The problem with Ames food is that the good stuff is hard to find. If you just go down Duff and LW, you'll pretty much see chain restaurants other than HP. The best places are on Main (Great Plains, The Spice, Aunt Maudes) and north in Somerset (The Café, Wallabys). To me, The Café and Great Plains are the best two places in Ames, but if you are bringing kids or a large group, you can't beat Hickory Park.
This is one thing that bothers me about the campustown redevelopment. Sure, it needed work, but it seems like several unique places are going by the wayside and more chains are showing up there as well.
Although I agree with you, I guarantee a Potbelly and Starbucks looks a lot more appealing to prospective students than the "Campus Book Store and Morrie's Coffee" did.
I feel like Ames has a lot of good restaurants, but nothing I would call great. I think it is also hard to identify one restaurant that provides an awesome pregame atmosphere when someone new is asking. I think Hickory Park is probably the closest to this, just because of the number of people that eat there. In reality, at Iowa State the tailgates are the place to be pregame.
Is that really 150, or does it just seem that way. U of TEE only plays "Rocky Top" 60 times a game and people really do count.
Please return and tell us where you went to eat in Ames!
I think it's pretty good pizza although I don't go there for anything other than lunch. You can't beat their lunch special where you get 2 huge slices and a drink for around $6. They always have a bunch of kinds available for lunch too.
If you replace "unique" with old, crappy looking store fronts then you would be accurate. I understand everyone's nostalgia for the older businesses that have gone through that area but it looks so much better now.
I was wondering that too. I remember being able to get a pizza to soak up the alcohol...or so we thought would happen.
What is Jeff's is my question. Must be fairly new as I don't remember it being there in my time.
Average pizza on Lincoln way by campus. It has probably been around for 5 years or so.
No kidding. I was thinking the same thing. We had home team back in my day, AND WE LIKED IT! now get off my lawn.
