<p>What are the names of some of the most popular restaurants in Providence of Brown students</p>
<p>So many...</p>
<p>Loui's, Red Stripe, Meeting Street Cafe, East Side Pockets, Byblos, Kabob and Curry, Not Just Snacks, Trinity Brewhouse, Taqueria Pacifica, Tortilla Flats, Kartabar, Andinos, Fire and Ice, Chilangos, Rasoi, United BBQ...</p>
<p>Those are just the first few off the top of my head...</p>
<p>Providence is unbelievable for restaurants. That stuff above is mostly the stuff I immediately thought of that's walking distance and student priced (although a few I'd rather drive to). If you include driving distance and stuff that gets even a bit more expensive, that list like quadruples immediately.</p>
<p>two good places on thayer street (which is on campus) are Cafe Paragon and Andreas'. One is miscellaneous vaguely mediterranean food and Andreas' is authentic Greek. They're both nice places to go with your parents, perhaps a little expensive for your typical student. There's also a great sushi place somewhere, I don't remember where, its on a street off thayer.</p>
<p>Spice!
It's one of the best Thai restaurant in New England!
there are also Sawasdi, Me Khong, and Pakarung
I also love Phoenatic (vietnamese), Haruki, Sakura (Japanese), and Solomon
Market (Korean)</p>
<p>Phonatic and Haruki are solid, and Spice is good, but not great. Sawadi is also pretty good. Neither of those Thai places are as good as what I can find on Long Island, however. Sakura isn't bad, but the service is terrible.</p>
<p>I always forget to mention Paragon and Andreas because I went a lot freshman year and then almost never after that. Both are decent, but neither warrant too many return trips. The menus aren't exciting enough to go more than once or twice a year, I think.</p>
<p>Angkor is better than Sawadee and Spice both. </p>
<p>A lot of the restaurants modest mentioned are a little bit far to maybe be considered as favorites of Brown students. Most of us don't have cars.</p>
<p>I would say everywhere on Thayer and to a lesser extent Wickenden and the Main St. area.</p>
<p>even though food was included at summer@brown, I spent soooo much money on food because there's a gazillion great restaurants, especially on Thayer.</p>
<p>the best place for coffee is blue state coffee, which I unfortunately did not discover until my second-to-last day. the best place for pizza is antonio's. I once sprinted out of my dorm at 11:20 through the rain to get a slice of eggplant pizza and get back in time for curfew at 11:30. it was worth it.</p>
<p>A</a> guide to eating on Thayer Street - Orientation 2004</p>
<p>I think the pizza debate has been done before, but I'll go ahead and do my ranking:</p>
<ol>
<li>Nice Slice & Fellini's</li>
</ol>
<p>big gap</p>
<p>Antonio's (their crust/dough is inferior to 1 and 2)
Via Via/that place on Ives no one knows about/Pizza Pier/Gourmet on Hope</p>
<p>I've heard about the good pizza at Antonios.</p>
<p>my daughter loves Haruki East on Wayland , but that is the occasional splurge</p>
<p>Blue State Coffee is great</p>
<p>I like Fellini's pizza on Wickendon, but dd likes Antonio's on Thayer esp the Buffalo Chicken slice</p>
<p>she eats East Side Pockets all the time, I recall the Babaganosh is especially good</p>
<p>There is a fantastic Korean place a little out of the way on 404 Benefit Street called Solomon Korean, but still walking distance it is small and homey and the clay pot bibimbop fed two of us</p>
<p>I don't recall any of the more expensive restaurants (like Red Stripe or Andreas) as being particularly good (esp not Blaze) compared with what I am used to, the notable exception being the wonderful little restaurant next to the cheese shop in Wayland Square, La Laiterie.</p>
<p>As you may have gathered, Thayer street right at campus is lined with restaurants, a little further away Wickendon has quite a few as well as coffee places, and even a little farther, is Wayland Square a bit upscale area, all walkable. Hope street is maybe for a bus ride.</p>
<p>P.S. a bike is a great way to get around the area, I've ridden all over the couple times I visited and my daughter has ridden for all the years at school (she is a Sr now, but study abroad this semester) I have to walk the bike up the bigger hill from downtown, but she can ride up, which is quite impressive.</p>
<p>Fellini's is good if you like a little pizza with your grease.</p>
<p>Nice Slice is good if you like tomato sauce and cheese, but not mixed together. I hate that splotchy **** they do. I also got incredibly nauseous after the first time I ate there, so I haven't been back since.</p>
<p>Antonio's, albeit not the best pizza, has such incredible topping variety that it's my fav place in PVD.</p>
<p>Pier is alright too if you don't get their weird pizzas.</p>
<p>Via Via is the best for a normal, NY style slice. Just don't go in there, it's uncomfortable. Order delivery.</p>
<p>Antonio's has great specialty and Sicilian.</p>
<p>Going to a place once really isn't the best way to to formulate an educated opinion of a place. I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say splotchy. Some pizzas have specialty cheeses melted into places on the pizza but most places do that (ie Fellini's). I go to Nice Slice once a week or so and never have had a bad experience, and once even got free pizza. The only place that has made me sick is the burrito place next to Antonio's. My main complaint with Antonio's is the lame crust. The variety is good but the ingredients seem sub-par and every piece I've eaten there has been ambiguous on the flavor. I like semolina crust so Nice Slice and Fellini's taste must better to me. The crust actually has a good flavor unlike that flour cardboard at Antonio's. Fellini's can be a bit greasy depending on the pizza.</p>
<p>I must say I've only had 1 pizza at Via Via after the guy yelled at me for resting my foot on a chair. The pizza I had was mediocre for NY style piece IMO. I should go back, I just don't order whole pizzas. But then again, why give a-holes money?</p>