{"id":5050,"date":"2012-11-28T08:12:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=5050"},"modified":"2012-11-28T09:24:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T17:24:49","slug":"a-trio-of-restaurants-to-check-out-during-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/11\/28\/a-trio-of-restaurants-to-check-out-during-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"A trio of restaurants to check out during the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

What does a starving college student do with most of their limited spending cash? Eat and drink, of course! For me, the emphasis is very much on the eating, as I love food and I can eat an atrocious amount of it (where it all goes, I haven\u2019t figured out yet).<\/p>\n

So in preparation for the winter break, I\u2019ve put together a little list of places for us hungry college students to eat, stay warm, and recharge at.<\/p>\n

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Swan\u2019s Brewpub<\/strong><\/p>\n

Situated on Pandora Avenue in downtown Victoria, Swan\u2019s has all of the pub essentials. True to my UK heritage, I went straight for the fish n\u2019 chips. They came with good French fries too (yes, bad French fries are a thing). Sadly, I dove straight into my food without checking how hot it was, and burnt the ever-loving piss out of the roof of my mouth, which my date found hilarious. My only complaint with the food was the coleslaw, which was sub-par (yes, I actually eat coleslaw: weird, right?). Swan\u2019s also sports beer and root beer made in-house; freaking sweet! This is a good place to eat and has a great atmosphere, but is a bit pricey: it was about $23 for a two-piece fish n\u2019 chips.<\/p>\n

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Original Joe\u2019s<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Original Joe\u2019s is a favourite among me and my friends. Placed next to Westshore Mall in Langford, it\u2019s a sports-style bar with great pub food. I recently had their Sgt. Pepper Burger, which is huge and full of peppers and other hot things; it\u2019s great. Most meals also come with two side dishes, with one of my favourites being the garlic mashed potatoes. But the best part about Joe\u2019s is that you get a LOT of food for not too much money (two-piece fish n\u2019 chips will run you about $16). Joe\u2019s also features a large selection of local beers and does half-off all appetizers (except nachos) on Saturday nights after 9 pm. The only downside is most people I go with can\u2019t finish all their food. Which is great for me, actually, because I get to eat it for them.<\/p>\n

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Second Slice<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Second Slice sits on the main Douglas strip in the heart of downtown. Probably the cheapest pizza on the island, it\u2019s also among the most delicious. They\u2019re open super late, servicing all the drunks as they stumble out of the clubs, but can also be great the next morning when you need grease to ease the hangover. My favourite part about them is that they use Alfredo sauce in lieu of the usual tomato sauce. I dragged my friend down there when I heard he\u2019d never been; he despises tomatoes with a passion. When he bit into his first Alfredo-filled, tomato-less slice, a single tear ran down his cheek.<\/p>\n

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What does a starving college student do with most of their limited spending cash? Eat and drink, of course! For me, the emphasis is very much on the eating, as I love food and I can eat an atrocious amount of it (where it all goes, I haven\u2019t figured out yet). So in preparation for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-issue","category-november-28-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5179,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions\/5179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}