Since many of our posts seem to involve some argument over food, why not poll everyone to see what we actually like?
Barbeque
1. Meat: brisket / beef vs. pork vs. chicken
2. Sauce: mustard vs. tomato vs. vinegar
Dessert
3. Cake vs. pie vs. cookies
Beverages
4. Beer vs. bourbon vs. something else (if so, what)
On campus
5. West End vs. Owens / Hokie Grill vs. D2
Tailgating
6. Breakfast vs. non-breakfast (for early kickoffs)
**EDIT**
Off campus
7. Favorite restaurant
8. Favorite bar
I'll start
1. Chicken (don't hurt me)
2. Tomato sauce
3. Cake
4. Vodka or rum (though I don't drink on gamedays)
5. West End
6. Non-breakfast
Backstreets (RIP). My husband and I had our first date there.
TOTS. I love rails.
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1) brisket
2) mustard
3) pie
4) bourbon
5) ho grill 4 lyfeeeeee
6) breakfast
for off-campus food, my grandma's house is #1 (she lives in McCoy). tough decision for places in downtown blacksburg...i'd probably go with souvlaki, the cellar, or mikes (in that order).
Facts of life: Grandma's in McCoy make better food than anyone.
I LIKE #ALLOFTHEFOODS
and substation II
that was a staple of mine in college..mostly because it wasn't a very long walk from my primary home (randolph)
Substation II is good. Definitely was my go-to spot for lunch - or Mike's.
Mikes was great. Although I loved Substation II as well, mostly because it was twice as good as Substation I.
...I may be the only one who ever found that funny, but I still do.
1. Pork
2. Vinegar
3. Pie
4. Craft beer (bourbon if tailgating)
5. West End (I lived in Cochrane and never got sick of it)
6. Bojangles
7. The Cellar
My ex-gf lived in cochrane and I got sick of that place pretty quickly..the halls were all dark and the rooms were old and not very welcoming. Westend is great though! I loved eating there. I usually went for a burger from the gobbler
Yep - the nice thing about West End is that at the end of the year (and after reloading my plan ump-teen times) you could buy raw ribeye's to take out for grilling.
1) Pork
2) Tomato
3) Cake
4) Beer
5) Owens
6) All I ever get are pop tarts and juice :( Shoutout to the nice old lady who offered me and another trumpet brats, they looked delicious
Off campus: Souvlaki, The Rivermill, Mike's, 622 North, Happy Wok, SSII (no particular order)
oooooooo I forgot about Happy Wok..I ate there with a group of guys for lunch every friday one semester
I give props for the answer in six. I swear that was probably a huge haul for Kellogg's every gameday.
1. Pork or Chicken Depending
2. Vinegar
3. Pie
4. Beer
5. West End, forever
6. Breakfast
7. Bull and Bones for somewhat nicer, for quick grab Happy Wok
EDIT for #8: Probably PK's or the Underground. Though we always did end up getting a lot of drinks at Abby's bar as well.
Pork
Vinegar
Cake
Rum
Schultz for 2 years now Turner's
No Breakfast
Greene's
1. Pork
2. Vinegar
3. Cookies
4. Devil's Backbone Pear Lager
5. West End 4 eva (used to work at Wrap World)
6. Non-breakfast
7. the cellar
Barbeque
1. Meat: Pork
2. Sauce: Tomato
Dessert
3. Cookies
Beverages
4. Beer
On campus
5. West End
Tailgating
6. non-breakfast (for early kickoffs)
And, finally, what's your favorite restaurant off campus?
Toss-up between Mike's Grill (best burger in town) and Boudreaux's (always loved Cajun)
Barbeque
1. Meat: Pork
2. Sauce: Vinegar
Dessert
3. Pie
Beverages
4a. Beer
4b. Bourbon
On campus
5. Ho Grill
Tailgating
6. No breakfast more beer
Boudreaux's, SSII, Cellar
1. Beef
2. whatever KC masterpiece is. KC Masterpiece >>>
3. Cookies. Especially with Ice Cream in the middle mmmmm......
4. Haven't had a whole lot of alcohol just yet so Beer
5. I'm sitting in West End right now.
6. Breakfast tailgates for noon kicks. Chick-fil-a otherwise
Moe's because FREE CHIPS for DAYS! Also the wing buffet at Sharkey's on Sunday is pretty fantastic.
1. Pork (pulled)
2. #teamvinegarsauce
3. warm chocolate chip cookies
4. good beer or bourbon, can't go wrong with either
5. West End
6. Breakfast
Souvlakis or SubStation II
1. pork, but there's room in the world for all types of meats.
2. vinegar, to honor my Cackalacki heritage
3. Cake, CAKE GODDAMNIT, CAKE!!
4. Beer, yes please. Burbon's great too, however. I'll say both.
5. West End
6. non-breakfast, because it's easier on the guts to dump beer upon.
7. Boudreaux's because Cajun.
Barbeque
1. Meat: Pulled pork
2. Sauce: tomato/vinegar (sweet)
Dessert
3. Cookies
Beverages
4. Blue Moon beer/bourbon
On campus
5. Sorry guys I'm not alumni and have never eaten on campus. I will have to say either
Boudreaux's or Cellar (TOTS just for rails)
Tailgating
6. Country Ham biscuits
Barbeque
1. pork
2. vinegar/tomato hybrid
3. cookies
4. Beer
5. I'm too old....
6. non-breakfast (for early kickoffs)
7. Restaurant....Mikes. Bar/restaurant hybrid, PK's
1. Pulled pork
2. Yes (I love 'em all)
3. Cake
4. Yes
5. West End, though D2 was comparatively awesome after surviving a year of old Dietrick
6. What, grilling steaks and hot dogs isn't considered breakfast?
7. So many...Souvlaki, Cellar, Boudreaux's, Bull & Bones, HOMEPLACE
Barbeque
1. PORK!! Always Pork...pork with bacon.
2. Sauce: vinegar
3. Cake w/ sugar icing - none of that whipped crap
4. Bourbon or Malibu Rum
5. No Schultz? So sad....
6. Non-breakfast - BBQ Pork
7. Mike's...Macado's
1. Pork
2. Tomato
3. Pie and cookies
4. Rum and beer (not at the same time)
5. Browens
6. Breakfast/non-breakfast, doesn't matter
Off campus - Souvlaki or SS II
1. Chicken with bacon
2. Tomatospicymustard
3. Cake
4. Bourbon
5. West End
6. Non-breakfast (Brats for days)
El Rodeo - Large portions of food and tequila
El Rod's...what I would do for a Jumbo Texas and a Quesadilla Rellena right about now.
1. Pork
2. Tomato (Memphis all the way, can't help family roots)
3. Cookies
4. Bourbon
5. West End
6. Non-breakfast (can always eat a brat)
7. BW3's. I remember when they used to have .25 cent wing tuesdays
P.S. First post. Happy to be here.
Welcome.
Plus one for first post, but disagree about the barbecue.
(Maybe I haven't had the right one, though.)
Barbeque
1. Meat: brisket / beef
2. Sauce: mustard
Dessert
3. Pie. all day every day
Beverages
4. Arnold Palmer
On campus
5. Turner - I know all you alumni havent experienced it but it wins
Tailgating
6. Breakfast
And, finally, what's your favorite restaurant off campus?
Macados
All the QDOBA!!
1. PULLED PORK OR GTFO
2. #teamvinegarsauce
3. Pie because pecans
4. Dos Equis
5. West End pasta is the tits
6. Beer for breakfast (definitely not a breakfast tailgater)
Calzones at The Cellar are the best because it's basically three of them in one serving. Plus get there for Hammertime, then you're fat and drunk.
1. Pork
2. Vinegar barbecue. (Is there really anything else?)
3. Cake=Pie=cookies. (Not really necessary after my stomach is filled. See #1,#2 above.)
4. Beer.
5. No opinion. (Carbon dating myself. The last meal I had at Owens was pre-quality on-campus food revolution.)
6. Breakfast. Yes, please.
Remember Arnold's? Maybe Macado's. I used to work at Backstreets....good pizza there.
Backstreet's is closed now :( A mellow mushroom is coming in
Do not fret too much. I loved Backstreet's, my girlfriend and I had our first date there.
But, Mellow Mushroom is awesome. It's different for Blacksburg. If you like Pizza, especially specialty pizza then you'll love this place. They also have an obsurdly large beer selection.
I've had one of their pizza's in hooville, it was tasty
Mellow Mushrooms, which I've never heard of, sounds like it will be the place for white-people-with-dreadlocks, hacky-sackin', organic-bread-eatin', don't-let-the-man-turn-you-into-an-eigman hippies.
This would be an accurate assessment. Good pies, but they don't make their own dough which is disappointing for me.
I've been to the one in Hooville a couple times. Decent pizza, but I will miss Backstreet's, which was one of the first restaurants I went to in Blacksburg when my sister was in school there. We also had my rehearsal dinner there a couple years ago. It will be missed, and no chain pizza place will ever hold a candle to it, IMHO.
1. and 2. Pork w/ vinegar (all others are pretenders)
3. Yes
4. Bourbon (barrel-aged beers are a close 2nd)
5. West End
6. Brunch/hybrid
7. "622 North" (Blacksburg) "River&Rail" or "Lucky" (Roanoke) Note: You may want to make a distinction here...many people are listing bars, sandwich shops vs. restaurants.
1. Can't eat beef, don't eat pork, so chicken.
2. Mustard
3. Cake
4. Bourbon
5. West End/D2
6. Breakfast
I really hate spending money so I don't eat off-campus very often. When I do it's when my family is visiting and we go to Olive Garden.
What what? No Cabo Fish Taco anyone?
No because the Tequila comes in much bigger ratio and proportion at El Rodeo although Cabo is no slouch
Man idk...I got an El Cheapo at CFT for like 4 bucks and that thing was loadeeeed
EDIT:
TURKEY LEGS FOR ALL OF MY COOKIE BRETHREN!!!
1. Pulled Pork
2. Sweet Baby Ray's
3. Cake
4. Beer
5. Owen's. Shocking, I know.
6. Light breakfast
I love the Cellar.
1. pork
2. vinegar, though i do love Sauer's
3. pie
4. beer and bourbon (and bloody mary's on early kickoffs)
5. never eaten on campus
6. why not both?
7. cabo, the cellar, boudreux's, ceritano's, poor billy's (just get the pork chop)
Sauer's - yes.
1. Beef
2. Vinegar
3. Pie
4. American Honey
5. D2
6. Non-brekky
7. Popeye's
1. fried turkey
2. cajun butter
3. pie
4. bourbon and a craft ipa
5. Deets
6. bacon
PKs for wings and sicilian square, hokie house for a fried egg bacon burger to plan the tailgate on friday and macados for the post game hindy
1. Pork
2. Vinegar
3. Cake & Pie, depends on my mood.
4. Craft Beer and Bourbon
5. West End & D2
6. Both
7. Cabo Fish Taco (even has pretty good beer), 622 North (great beer selection and burgers), Souvlaki
1. brisket all day
2. mustard
3. cake
4. beer, not a big fan of mixed drinks
5. west end (but turner is even better IMO)
6. I'm not a big breakfast eater so I'm gonna go with NON-breakfast food
7. Cabo Fish Taco, Souvlaki, PK's Tijuana Toss, The Cellar, I've heard that the Taphouse is really good
1. Pork
2. yes?
3. Pie
4. Beer
5. D2
6. Non-breakfast, unless I go to Bojangles.
Food: Bull and Bones, Hokie House, The Cellar, Moe's, Happy Wok...let's be real, pretty much anything downtown Blacksburg or near the mall in CBurg.
Bar: Hokie House and Cellar
1) chicken (i've always said if i was on death row and had to pick a last meal it would be bbq chicken, maybe you guys grew up with inferior bbq chicken to my dad's i'm not sure)
2) tomato
3) pie/cobbler
4) depends on the mood, so i'll say both
5) have to ask my wife or an alum friend
6) breakfast, cant go wrong with bacon egg and cheese on the grill washing it down with some cold ones
7) idk, macados, souvlakis (watched the 99 mnc game there) we were recently disappointed by bull and bones so they're temporarily off the list.
Barbeque
1. Meat: pork or Baltimore style with bottom round.
2. Sauce: vinegar
Grilling
Blackened shrimp, steak or pork chops
Dessert
3. pie a al mode
Beverages
4. My job is brewing so, I love Beer but I also love me some bourbon.
Tailgating
6. non-breakfast - can't keep the scrambled eggs and omlettes from falling through the grates.
use a pan or griddle
1.Pork
2. Vinegar (should be the only option)
3. Pie
4. Bourbon
5. No preference
6. Non breakfast
7. Boudreaux's, CFT, the Greeks
8. TOTS
1. Pork
2#TEAMVINEGARSAUCE
3. Pie
4. A good stiff root beer
5.-8. Really don't have an answer since I've not been to Blacksburg in a few years, and I don't go to bars.
1. Chicken then beef then pork. I enjoy them all.
2. Tomato. I never really paid any attention to bbq sauce derivatives but tomato sauce and a bowl of spaghetti. I'm good.
3. Cookies. Followed by cake and I am gonna go out on a limb but I thoroughly enjoy a good cannoli or cheesecake every once and a while.
4. Bourbon to start. Beer to chase.
5. West End, that was my jam especially Junior and Senior year. Though I went back and saw the new Turner place. It's pretty sweet.
6. Non-Breakfast, I could eat a burger at a tailgate anytime of day
7. I gotta go with a tie between Bull and Bones and Sal's. Depends on the mood. Either one is a solid choice. Hokie House for dinner and Trivia was always a midweek highlight too.
8. Hokie House, ftw
1. Chicken (just covered in BBQ sauce)
2. Tomato sauce
3. Pie
4. Beer (I can do Bourbon but you gotta mix it in something)
5. West End (But D2 brunch is my favorite campus meal)
6. Non-Breakfast
7. Boudreaux's
8. Depends. For just a chill night, watching sports and hanging out, then Champs. If I'm trying to get trashed, TOTS.
I expect charts and graphs analyzing this data, just so you know.
1. Pork
2. Vinegar
3. Cake (because I assume this includes cheesecake)
4. Bourbon, Bourbon, and Bourbon...not sure how this is a debate
5. D2
6. Absolutely breakfast, sausage poofs, bacon, cheese grits, country potatoes...drool
7. Lefty's
8. River Mill or Underground
Barbeque
1. Meat: pork
2. Sauce: vinegar
Dessert
3. #TEAMALLTHESWEETS!!!!
Beverages
4. Beer
On campus
5. West End
Tailgating
6. Breakfast
Off campus
7. Boudreaux's
8. Hokie House and the old Sharky's were my places when I was in school.
Barbeque
1. Pork, always pork
2. Vinegar
3. I celebrate all desserts
4. BOURBON
5. West End - opened my Sr year, it was a revelation after living on Dietrich food
6. Breakfast and bourbon
7. Boudreaux's
8. Big Al's
1) #ALLTHEMEATS
2) Tomato (someone else said Sweet Baby Ray's, and I concur)
3) All, but cake is #1
4) Nothing with alcohol
5) Not D2
6) Breakfast
7) Mike's, and I would have said Boston Beanery too, but evidently they're closed. :(
8) Bar? What bar?
I wish I tried Bogen's before it closed.
1- all are acceptable, but my preference goes pork>beef>chicken
2- again, I appreciate the differences in all varieties so long as they are homemade, all of you throwing out brands should be ashamed, I always lean to the vinegar side though
3- at a tailgate, I don't know, I'm always blitzed by that point
4- in Blacksburg, beer at the tailgate and a few bourbons in the game, in Charlotte I could easily walk to the train from my old house making drunkenness a non-issue for the drive home, so ACCCG or Panthers games were insane amounts of whatever was in front of me
5- I didn't eat much in my school days, but I would go West End first
6- both, my tailgate for the UNC game had 20 bacon, egg & cheese biscuits, jalapeo & bacon pimento cheese pregame & pulled pork, ramburgers (lamb & beef, but you know, Ramses, see what I did there?), and Mac & cheese, every but of it homemade (and there were only 2 of us, our tailgating neighbors love us & the more food I send home to my buddy's wife gets me first choice of games to take his tickets)
7- see 5, really didn't eat out a lot
8- TOTS & Hokie House
Barbeque
1. Pork
2. Mustard
Dessert
3. Pie
Beverages
4. Great Lakes Commodore Perry
On campus
5. N/A
Tailgating
6. Non-Breakfast. Pork tenderloin on Kings Hawaiian roll
Off campus
7. Our Daily Bread
8. Champs