Salsa Cook-off

Tomorrow Trinity hosts a salsa cook-off, where different organisations can make there own salsas and compete to see who can make the best salsa. A friend of mine from the club lacrosse team is meeting with some of her teammates to make salsa. She will be using tomatoes and jalapenos that she grew herself in order to make the salsa. I personally am excited to try all of the different salsas. I prefer spicy salsa so that's what I'll be looking for when I am there.

This cook-off comes a week after the chili cook-off, which was hosted by the betas, a Trinity sorority, and featured a similar contest with chili as well as a jalapeno-eating contest. My friend won the jalapeno-eating contest last year and received the twenty dollar prize. The prize for winning best chili was fifty dollars.
I am excited for the salsa cook-off and to try the lacrosse team's amazing salsa. I hope they win and I am excited to try all of the different salsas that Trinity students can make. Salsa is one of my favorite foods and I know that it will be amazing at the cook-off but I am slightly disappointed that it is not a queso cook-off since that is actually my absolute favorite food of all time.


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More Restaurants

San Antonio has many restaurants that are not Tex-Mex or Texas barbecue. Another great place to eat that is different from many of the other restaurants here is Cheesy Jane's. This is a restaurant on Broadway that serves great burgers, fries, and milkshakes. I recently went to Cheesy Jane's for the birthday of a friend because it is his favorite restaurant in San Antonio. The milkshakes in particular are a good reason to go.

Another good place to get burgers in San Antonio is Tycoon Flatts. This restaurant not only serves great food but is also sometimes a host to the functions of Trinity students.An example of such an event would be small concerts because there is live music there. Trinity students love Flatts because of its proximity to campus (it is only a short walk away) and because it takes tigerbucks. Flatts is known for its great burgers, one of which is a half-pound burger.

It is not hard to find great burgers in San Antonio. These two restaurants are favorites of Trinity students because they are close by and fairly inexpensive. Of course, if neither of these places are what you are in the mood for, there is always Whataburger.

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San Antonio Restaurants

Taco Taco isn't the only great place to eat in San Antonio. Another great restaurant is Chris Madrids, which is located on Blanco. This restaurant is popular among Trinity students because of its great burgers and nachos. The menu is short but every burger is delicious. I last went to Chris Madrids for a club tennis dinner.

Another restaurant that I discovered recently is called Thai Dee, which is also on Blanco. I say discovered because its not a restaurant that most Trinity students know. I heard about it recently because it began to take tigerbucks so some friends and I have been going ever since. It is a little bit of a drive because it is much further down Blanco than Chris Madrids. The food, however, makes it worth taking the time to go there. Its a pretty small place that is rarely crowded. Because of this your food gets delivered quickly. I personally love pad thai so that is always what I order. The fact that they accept tigerbucks at Thai Dee is great because eating off campus can often be expensive for a college student. We often forget that there are places other than Chipotle that accept tigerbucks.

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Breakfast Tacos



The Taco Taco sign



Any Trinity student will tell you, you might get tried of Coates pizza and you might get sick of Mabee pasta if you eat too much of it, but you will never get tired of breakfast tacos. Before I came to San Antonio I had never really eaten a breakfast taco. Now I eat them every day. My personal favorite is a chorizo taco with bacon and cheese. And breakfast tacos are not just served at the Trinity dining halls; they are also served at restaurants in San Antonio. The best place to get a breakfast taco off campus, in my opinion and in the opinions of most of my classmates, is at Taco Taco. Taco Taco is a short distance from campus and serves great tacos as well as other delicious food. Another reason to go to Taco Taco, besides the great food, is that it is pretty inexpensive, which is great for a college student.

If you like breakfast tacos at Trinity then you will definitely like them at Taco Taco. It is a popular restaurant not just with Trinity students but with everyone from San Antonio. Although considering our close proximity to the restaurant, we probably make up a high percentage of its customers. It is so popular in fact that the line to be seated is often out the door, although the wait is never very long and always worth it.

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Eating on Campus



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While there are many great places to eat in San Antonio, not every student has access to a car or can afford to eat outside their meal plan. Luckily, there is plenty to eat on campus. Trinity has two main dining halls: Mabee and the Commons, usually just called Coates because it is located inside the student center. Over the past year at Trinity, I have come to find that the key to eating at a dining hall, at Trinity or otherwise is to be creative. I started off my freshman year eating the same basic three meals: a sausage biscuit from Coates for breakfast, a quesadilla from Mabee for lunch, and pasta, usually with pesto or meat sauce for dinner. I quickly found that eating the same basic food everyday was a generally bad idea. One clear sign that my eating habits had become a little too habitual was that many of the Aramark employees knew what I wanted before I ordered it. Since then I have constantly been trying to come up with creative sandwiches or interesting salads.



Another thing that is good about eating on campus are the people who work there. One of my favorites is Philip, who works at the breakfast all day station. He is always talkative, asking about your day as he makes your omlette or scrambled eggs. Aramark employees are generally very friendly and enthusiastic, which is good considering the regular basis on which we interact with them.

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