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Off-Campus Dining

B-
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Student Favorites
  • Bertucci’s
  • Pad Thai
  • Waterville House of Pizza (Whop)
Best Asian
  • Asian Café
  • Pad Thai Too
Best Breakfast
  • Big G's
  • Early Bird Restaurant
  • Last Unicorn
  • Purple Cow House of Pancakes
Best Coffee Jorgensen's Café
Best Dessert North Street Dairy Cone
Best Healthy
  • Barrels Community Market
  • Riverside Farm Market & Café
Best Late-Night Waterville House of Pizza
Best Mexican Cancun Mexican Restaurant
Best Pizza
  • Big G's
  • Papa John's
  • Waterville House of Pizza
Best Wings Big G's
Best Place to Take a Date Apollo's Bistro
Best Place to Take Your Parents
  • Last Unicorn
  • Pad Thai Too
Other Places to Check Out
  • Mainely Brews
  • Papa John's
  • Ruby Tuesday
  • Waterville House of Pancakes

Student Author OverviewWhat's This?

The food is definitely one of Waterville’s biggest attractions. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a Colby student who doesn’t have an inexplicable and undying love for Pad Thai Too—this small, often crowded, hole-in-the-wall Thai restaurant is easily the most popular in Waterville, which is quite the accomplishment in a city full of great restaurants. Students are always willing to venture into the Waterville wilds and find great food, like Big G's, which offers remarkably huge sandwiches.

You can really find anything you want here. Some say Waterville is the fast food capital of America—Applebee’s, Ruby Tuesday, and Friendly’s are close to campus if you're looking for a quick bite to eat, and McDonald's, Taco Bell, KFC, and Burger King are open late once the Spa closes. There are also pricier restaurants with amazing food to enjoy with your parents, and less-expensive restaurants with equally amazing food to enjoy with your friends. Waterville House of Pizza will deliver gourmet pizzas and hand-crafted calzones with innovative toppings to your dorm. The popular spots get crowded and continual eating out will burn holes in your wallet, but in a city that often has little to offer Colby students, the off-campus dining scene is pretty phenomenal. Although on-campus dining halls are great, they get old, and Waterville rises to the needs of bored Colby students.

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Off-Campus Dining at Colby College

grodip

'15

Computer Science

4.2
A-

Dining

Dining off-campus is very convenient to get to and is decently priced for us college students. There is a small, but nice variety of fast-food places and actual restaurants.

Jan 04, 2012

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Off-Campus Dining at Colby College

gjperrym

'15

Computer Science

4.6
A

Pad-Thai 2

It is a decently priced restaurant close to campus, with very good food. it also is a great place to go with friends or to go to on a date.

Jan 04, 2012

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Off-Campus Dining at Colby College

thewackness

'13

North American Studies

2.7
C+

What Dining?

There are places that are so hard to reach and it snows so much you have to be very motivated to even go off campus for food. Stay on campus its much better.

Mar 02, 2011

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Student Survey Poll ResultsWhat's This?

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Grocery StoresWhat's This?

Barrels Community Market
74 Main St., Waterville
(207) 660-4844
www.barrelsmarket.com
Monday–Friday 10 a.m.–7 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Hannaford Food and Drug
19 Elm Plaza, Waterville
(207) 877-0700
www.hannaford.com
Monday–Saturday 7 a.m.–11 p.m., Sunday 7 a.m.–9 p.m.

Shaw's Supermarket
251 Kennedy Memorial Dr., Waterville
(207) 873-6224
www.shaws.com
Monday–Saturday 7 a.m.–11 p.m., Sunday 7 a.m.–9 p.m.

Restaurant ListingsWhat's This?

Apollo Bistro
Food: American, French
91 Silver St., Waterville
(207) 872-2242
www.apollosalonspa.com
Price: $8–$23

Applebee's
Food: American
251 Kennedy Memorial Dr., Waterville
(207) 872-6702
www.applebees.com
Price: $8–$15

Asian Café
Food: Asian
53 Bay St., Winslow
(207) 877-6688
Price: $7–$15

Big G's
Food: Breakfast, pizza, subs, sandwiches
581 Benton Ave., Winslow
(207) 873-7808
big-g-s-deli.com
Price: $5–$10

Cancun Mexican Restaurant
Food: Mexican
14 Silver St., Waterville
(207) 872-7400
www.cancunwaterville.com
Price: $8–$13

Early Bird Restaurant
Food: American, breakfast
37 Main St., Oakland
(207) 465-9608
Price: $5–$10

Friendly's
Food: American
373 Main St., Waterville
(207) 872-4598
www.friendlys.com
Price: $5–$13

Gifford's Ice Cream
Food: Ice cream
170 Silver St., Waterville
(207) 872-6631
Price: $4–$6
Cool Features: The outdoor ice cream shop also has mini-golf and batting cages.

Grand Central Café
Food: Pizza, sandwiches, subs
10 Railroad Sq., Waterville
(207) 872-9135
Price: $5–$15

Jorgensen's Café
Food: Baked goods, coffee, salads, sandwiches
103 Main St., Waterville
9207) 872-8711
www.myspace.com/jorgensenscafe
Price: Less than $10

Last Unicorn
Food: American
8 Silver St., Waterville
(207) 873-6378
www.lastunicornrestaurant.com
Price: $12–$25

North Street Dairy Cone
Food: Ice cream
127 North St., Waterville
(207) 873-0877
Price: $4–$6
Cool Features: Homemade ice cream, cakes, and milkshakes.

Pad Thai Too
Food: Thai
400 Kennedy Memorial Dr., Waterville
(207) 859-8900
www.padthaitoo.com
Price: $11–$20

Purple Cow House of Pancakes
Food: American, pancakes
6 Route 201, Fairfield
(207) 453-1371
www.purplecowmaine.com
Price: $4–$10

Riverside Farm Market & Café
Food: International, sandwiches
291 Fairfield St., Oakland
(207) 465-4439
www.riversidefarmmarket.com
Price: $8-$15
Cool Features: All organic Food

Soup to Nuts Coffee House
Food: Coffee, locally produced food, organic
177 Maine St., Waterville
(207) 680-9999
Price: $4–$10
Cool Features: Tasty baked goods.

Waterville House of Pizza
Food: Pizza
139 Main St., Waterville
(207) 873-4300
www.whoponline.com
Price: $5–$15

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