Cafe 1919

Bongiorno!

Yesterday was my area's assigned date to try out Cafe 1919, a new dorm restaurant opening up on campus. In this past week I had attempted to avoid all the hype being built up from all these "soft" openings. I still think its kinda stupid to have these little segregated trial hours, but I'll have to admit I was walking a little fast back to the hill after my class ended for lunch. I wanted to beat the crowd back.

As I breached the last stair of the Awkward Steps, I was relieved to see no line at the door. After side stepping and cutting in front of this slow girl looking at a menu, I stepped through the doorway into the old Puzzle's Restaurant. Cafe 1919 took the place of an old residential fast food restaurant called Puzzles.

As I walked through the door, I expected the inside to look like Puzzles. To my surprise, it pleasantly different than the old restaurant. Its kinda like the feeling you get when you see someone who usually wears glasses not wearing glasses. There's something oddly familiar about them, but in fact, they look completely different.

Well anyways, as I approached the counter to make my order, I was half expecting the two cashiers to say "Welcome to Mega-corp" or something like that from the movies because the place looked kinda advanced. I noticed the two cashier's were 2 friendly ladies that used to work at Rendevous. I looked at the other workers there and noticed they were all the best employees from around the residential eateries. I guess they wanted the best people to help open the new restaurant more smoothly.

I ordered a Tacchino Panini and Kettle Chips. Probably the most delightful thing about my first Cafe 1919 experience was the bag that my food came in. It was a cute paper bag with a handle. Carrying the bag with me back to my room, I noticed alot of people looking down at the bag that read "Cafe 1919." I felt kinda cool and special, also maybe a little silly.

After getting my camera and taking about a hundred pictures from various angles of my panini, I ate it.

It was delicious.

Conclusions:
Pros:
- Cafe 1919 looks pretty cool inside.
- The employees are cool, they mutter out random phrases in Italian.
- The panini and chips were delicious
- Cool baggy (probably wasteful)

Cons:
- The panini serving size was too small, its probably less fulfilling than tacos at Rendevous
- Me and Kristina don't like all the hype
- The name Cafe 1919 is too long. SIX whole syllables!!!! In the time it takes to say Ca-fe-nine-teen-nine-teen, you could have said Pooh SIX times!!!! Woohoo!