<p>Suggestions for great meals?</p>
<p>We have lunch and dinner on the day we are in town and breakfast the next am.
Staying at the Inn on campus.</p>
<p>There is no “Inn” on campus, unless you mean Forbes haha. I’m guessing Nassau Inn? </p>
<p>There’s a good Asian (Korean, Japanese mostly) restaurant down Alexander St. </p>
<p>Soonjas Cuisine
244 Alexander Street, Princeton, NJ - (609) 924-9260</p>
<p>There’s also Teresa’s Caffe for Italian:</p>
<p>Teresa’s Caffe
23 Palmer Square East
Princeton, NJ 08542-3714
(609) 921-1974</p>
<p>But all restaurants around Princeton suck, IMO. Except Hoagie Haven - the one exception:</p>
<p>Hoagie Haven
242 Nassau St
Princeton, NJ 08542
(609) 921-7723</p>
<p>But there’s no place to sit and eat there.</p>
<p>Teresa’s is our favorite, but the seafood grill on Nassau Street, um, what’s it called, oh yeah, Blue Point Grill is delicious too.</p>
<p>Coffee----Small World on Witherspoon, ~ 110 feet off Nassau.</p>
<p>Lunch—The Haven 
(+1 randombetch) There are other choices ~next to the Haven; Georges, Tiger Noodle… This is about a 3 or 4 block walk north on Nassau from Witherspoon.</p>
<p>Dinner----Blue point Grill or Teresa’s. OR take a short drive south on RT.1 to “Princeton Market Fair” and eat at “Big Fish” easy parking and access. can be noisy at times but all ways enjoyable</p>
<p>Oh, the Inn. Again I assume that is the Nassau Inn. Very nice but not on campus. Sort of across the street down on Palmer Square.</p>
<p>fogfog- You might want to request the old, original building of th Nassau Inn. The rooms in the new, boxy annex are a tad charmless. Also, rooms facing the street are noisy, those toward the lawns are quieter.</p>
<p>Winberies is nice for lunch or dinner.</p>
<p>Also, make sure you get desert at either the bent spoon or the halo pub!</p>
<p>All of these establishments are within 150 feet of your hotel.</p>
<p>I think mediterra is good for lunch. Triumph has really good burgers, and a good beer selection.</p>
<p>Also, if you are looking for pizza, Old World Pizza is quite good.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the ideas…
and Fauve I will be making that request for our room. Thanks for the tip.</p>
<p>You’re welcome. Also, another lunch idea, though not high-end food… you’ll get a real glance of Princeton students, locals and faculty, is PJ’s Pancakes, on Nassau Street. Burgers, sandwiches, etc., in ancient booths with decades of carved initials. An old Princeton institution. You can also eat on campus at Frist student center, it is open to the public. (It is the building fictionalized as the Princeton-Plainsboro hospital on the opening credits of “House”.)</p>
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<p>And bring your own vacuum cleaner. The place was a pit when we stayed there several years ago. (Maybe they’ve cleaned it since.) ;)</p>
<p>oh no…Nassau Inn is dirty? yuck?
Unfortunately we won’t have a car–are arriving by train and the dinky…</p>
<p>^^I was being somewhat facetious. The Nassau Inn was kind of seedy/run-down when we stayed there, but dirty is a bit too strong a description. And this was three years ago.</p>
<p>Our room at the Nassau Inn was perfectly clean. It is an historical inn, so the old wide-planked lobby floors and the huge fireplace do look used. We saw it as charm. If you are looking for a Marriott-Vegas glass/chrome/nouveau-awful look, then you’re not going to find that at the NI. There is a wonderful original Norman Rockwell oil painting of Yankee Doodle over the mantel in the lobby, and the location can’t be beat.</p>
<p>I live in a 100-year-old house (that’s considered historic in my part of the world). I get old-world charm. What we had in our room at the Nassau Inn was threadbare carpet and schmutz. As I said, this was three years ago. But I assure you I don’t have a preference for Vegas-style glitz.</p>
<p>I’ve stayed at the Nassau Inn several times over the past 5 years. The rooms really vary in quality. One time I had a terrible room. They have bumped it up overall, probably since you were there wjb. But it’s really worth trying to lobby for a good room. You could ask for one that has been recently refurbished, for example. My mother got a suite when she was there last year, it was very nice. My last visit, the room was small, but well-appointed, and annoying only in that it looked out onto the street over the entrance and there’s a lot of noise from trucks in the morning and carousers in the evening.</p>
<p>Sorry wjb, I don’t know what schmutz is—is it related to schmaltz, or perhaps just grime?</p>
<p>Well since our family loves all of the HOUSE reruns–we might have to get lunch at the Frist center then just so we can tell the younger sibling and dad we ate there…
;O)</p>
<p>I sent en email to cus serv at the Nassau Inn and haven’t heard back–will call
Would be sad to have a ratty rundown room</p>
<p>Sooo chilly, raining dreary weather for our visit… :rolleyes:
guess kiddo will see what late winter/early spring looks like!</p>
<p>Thanks for the opts for meals 
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<p>Good morning fogfog,</p>
<p>I was going to post a question to you about how your Princeton visit was! Did you come 2 weeks ago during that brutal Nor’Easter or yesterday during those rain showers? This past weekend had wonderful weather.</p>