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New Ferg food court brings long lines, fewer options

New Ferg food court brings long lines, fewer options

Katharine Buckley September 1, 2014

It’s midweek and there are only 20 minutes to grab lunch between classes. For many students, the tough reality of the situation is that there is simply not enough time to eat on campus given this time...

Top three Tuscaloosa cheap eats

Top three Tuscaloosa cheap eats

Matt Lund August 24, 2014

It’s not yet been a week and dining hall food has already grown stale. Thoughts of off-campus food meander through hungry minds, while wallets tremble. We’re all hungry. We’re all broke. So do yourself...

Southern Ale House serves local food, beer

Southern Ale House serves local food, beer

Anslee Wilson August 20, 2014

For the first time this year, Alabama Restaurant Week will feature Tuscaloosa restaurant Southern Ale House, which focuses on locally produced food and beers. This year there are 15 Tuscaloosa participants...

New Fresh Foods offers more options, space

New Fresh Foods offers more options, space

Austin Frederick August 19, 2014

Moving from within the Ferguson Center to a stand-alone location of its own, the new Fresh Food Company is officially up and running. Located in an entirely new building, the new Fresh Foods has...

Grits provide good, southern alternative to Ramen

Grits provide good, southern alternative to Ramen

Katharine Buckley August 17, 2014

When many out-of-state students come to Alabama, they encounter their first dose of southern food, and it’s a beautiful thing. Despite being born in New Orleans, a food capital of the world, and growing...

New fast casual pizza chain opens on 15th Street

New fast casual pizza chain opens on 15th Street

Anslee Wilson August 17, 2014

When walking into Pizza 120, a new restaurant located on 15th Street just off McFarland Boulevard, guests are immediately embraced by the enticing smell of freshly baked pizza wafting through the air and...

Local restaurant owner continues father's legacy

Local restaurant owner continues father's legacy

Matt Moore July 8, 2014

Every day at 7 a.m., George Archibald Jr. is treated to the smell of hickory-fired smoke when he fires up his open seasoned pit for another day at Archibald’s Drive Inn. Archibald said his father, George...

Stress-eating can be common, unnecessary during finals week

Tara Massouleh April 21, 2014

It’s that time of year again. The time of year when we’re worrying about a million things at once, and every day that goes by is just 24 more hours of studying time to be lost. Yes, it’s the middle...

Case for cereal: America’s late-night snack

Tara Massouleh April 7, 2014

It’s late at night or maybe even the wee hours of the early morning. All that’s on TV are infomercials for Magic Bullets and instant hair removal. You’re deciding whether to move on to the next episode...

Bama Dining’s leftover food used in UA Arboretum composts

Cole Booth March 18, 2014

Bama Dining has found a way to reuse leftover salad greens to benefit the University of Alabama Arboretum. At the end of each day, Bama Dining gathers all of its unusable waste and ships it off to the...

Sitar now a Tuscaloosa staple

Tara Massouleh March 17, 2014

A few weeks ago something tragic happened. I drove up to my favorite restaurant in Tuscaloosa (and possibly the world at this point in my life) only to find that it was closed. A tattered, handwritten...

Students help with Secret Meals program, aid schools

Cokie Thompson March 12, 2014

From Lakeside Dining to Bryant Hall, and all the vending machines in between, food is readily available all over the University of Alabama campus. Freshman and anyone else with an unlimited meal plan have...