{"id":37,"date":"2008-10-20T16:34:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T20:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/UpbeaT\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-10-20T16:34:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T20:34:30","slug":"more-fish-stew-heather-is-forced-to-investigate-the-buttery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2008\/10\/20\/more-fish-stew-heather-is-forced-to-investigate-the-buttery\/","title":{"rendered":"More Fish Stew: Heather is forced to investigate The Buttery"},"content":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t really like spending money at school on food, but at home there are just too many people in one small eating space. My\u00a0grandparents are still here, still fixing \u201cCullen Skink<\/a>\u201d (smelly yellow fish stew) over-cooking meat, and boiling vegetables. The kitchen is crowded in the mornings, and it\u2019s hard to gather food while navigating around mother, father, and granny, and granda, and the other Scottish folk packed into my house (in anticipation of my dear sister\u2019s wedding...it's coming soon).\n\nSo, when I get to school, my wallet\u00a0is the closest thing to a lunch bag I have on me.\n\nBut it\u2019s ok. I\u2019ve found The Buttery. The Larkin Building\u00a0at 15 Devonshire place isn\u2019t somewhere I would regularly go, but I did the other day and I'm glad I did.\n\nFine, so maybe\u00a0a cafeteria isn\u2019t a grand discovery, and the fact that they only take cash (the closest ATM is in Robarts) might be a put off. But when I wandered into this foodspace, slightly dizzy from lack of glucose, they had what I wanted\u2014an enormous serving of pasta, all warm and delicious with a home-made ground-pork-tomato-and vegetable sauce. Really\u2014it\u2019s big; I\u2019m not lying.\n\nNote<\/strong> - the good food is beside the cash; don\u2019t be distracted by pizza or any of that crap. And they have vegetarian options on hand as well, though I usually don\u2019t look too closely at those since I'm anaphylactic\u00a0and\u00a0allergic to tofu, beans, soy etc.)\n\nIt would have been\u00a0$4.90 if I had got the vegetables that were supposed to be on the side, but my allergy to peas prevented this, and so in the end I had a huge package of pasta for $3.50. (After the uncompromising food policies at Sammy\u2019s\u00a0Student Exchange<\/a> in Hart House, where opting out of a side dish doesn\u2019t reduce the price\u2026this is an almost revolutionary thing for me, so let\u2019s pause for a moment to reflect on how truly wonderful this is.)\n\n*pause*\n\nI should note that this good food is only available during lunch hours--if you amble over at 3:00pm, you're out of luck because they, my friend, are out of food.\n\nAnyways, the experience thrilled me, and the stuff lasted me for ages\u2014seriously, I couldn\u2019t get it all down in one sitting. Thank goodness I got it to go, and could carry it around with me (in a paper carton, not a Styrofoam one, yay environment!\n\nBut there is one problem.\n\nWhite walls, indistinctive\u00a0tables and mass-produced looking seats\u2026nothing about The Buttery is inviting to look at. The tables are all spread out, and the only people socializing seem to be in study groups. The food is inexpensive and all-around great (the menu for the hot food changes and there always seems to be a focus on providing lots of vegetables), but this isn\u2019t a place that seems comfortable and fun\u2014a place where you would just happen to meet up with friends, or a place where people would walk up to you and introduce themselves.\n\nMy house was full of people, but the food was boiled and tasteless.\n\nHart House was a place I wanted to stay and eat at, and a place with a friendly and inviting vibe, but the menu was uncompromising and over priced.\n\nHere, I\u2019m happy with my pasta, but it\u2019s lonely in The Buttery.\n

- Heather<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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