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Off-Campus Dining

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Student Favorites
  • Delhi Palace Express
  • Sacas Mediteranean Cuisine
24-Hour Dining Del Taco
Best Breakfast Village Grill
Best Healthy Full of Life Bakery
Best Pizza Pizza 'N Such
Best Wings The Hat
Best Place to Take Your Parents
  • Harvard Square Café
  • Walter's
Other Places to Check Out
  • Don José
  • El Pavo
  • Heroe's
  • Somecrust

Student Author OverviewWhat's This?

Students complain about the prices of most of the off-campus restaurants, but there are plenty of cheap options as well. As is always the case, you’re not going to find fancy food for low prices, but in the Village you will find good food for good prices, as well as finer food for higher prices. If you are in the market for fast food, you will likely need a car, as the Village is a little too hoity-toity to have a McDonald’s on the corner. The Village’s deficiencies as per dining have a lot more to do with the general deficiencies of the Village as a college town than they do with the actual restaurants.

Considering the size of the Village, it is remarkably well stocked with restaurants, the one real concession to college life. However, due to the property taxes in the Village, most of the restaurants are somewhat pricey. There are exceptions though, including Delhi Palace Express, Sacas, and The Taco Factory. However, you may soon tire of these places and long for new palate-tickling dining options. When this happens, you will need a car or a friend with a car. Of course, you are more likely to be friends with someone with a car than they are likely to be friends with you. A friend in need is a friend indeed, and what, pray tell, do the automotively-privileged need that the rest of us can ever hope to provide?

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Off-Campus Dining at Pomona College

ang02008

Psychology '12

4.6
A

Off-Campus Dining

The village is only 5 minutes away and it offers everything from express Indian food to Sports bars to fancy sit down dinners.

Dec 20, 2011

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Off-Campus Dining at Pomona College

FGrady

Spanish Language and Literature '14

N/A

Off-Campus Dining

http://www.thevillageclaremont.com/index.html

I know for sure that Yogurtland gives students a 10% discount.

Places that take Claremont Cash include...

21 Choices (frozen yogurt, including soy yogurt!)

42nd Street Bagel

Bert & Rocky's Ice Cream

Chipotle

Darvish Restaurant (Persian food)

Denny's

Domino's

Dr. Grubb's California Fresh

Jamba Juice

Legends Burgers

Pizza N Such

Podges Claremont Juice Co

Quiznos Sub

Roundtable Pizza

So Fresh Salad Express

Some Crust Bakery

Walters Restaurant

Wolfes Market

Jan 12, 2011

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Off-Campus Dining at Pomona College

ateaford05

French Language and Literature '13

0.8
D-

Ain't the Greatest Grub

Off-campus dining is one of the biggest downfalls to campus life in Claremont. Despite the mass presence of students (the Claremont Colleges, duh), it appears no one in the food industry is interested in such a big, easy market. There is no real fast food (a law bans it in the city's limits). The closing of the nearby CVS means getting milk requires a 2.5 trip to Vons, uphill. The Village is populated almost entirely by mid-to-high end restaurants. This isn't the kind of college town where you can get cheap Chinese, pizza slices (not a single pizza joint- only Pizza N such, a sit down eatery), or other wonderfully greasy quick fixes.

Aug 24, 2010

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User rating for Pomona College - Off-Campus Dining is 3.5 out of 5 based on 17 user reviews.

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Did You Know? If, as is often the case in college, you are feeling a bit run down, a bit out of shape, and if, as may also often be the case, you believe that your exclusive diet of beer and nacho-cheese dip just isn't cutting it, then hit the Village for the Sunday farmer's market, which features organic produce and other healthy things to eat. Unfortunately, you have to wake up awfully early to get there.

Grocery StoresWhat's This?

Wolfe's Market
160 W Foothill Blvd.
(909) 626-8508
www.wolfesmarket.com

Restaurant ListingsWhat's This?

42nd Street Bagel
Food: Bagels
225 Yale Ave.
(909) 624-7655
Price: $2-$6
Cool Features: The entire thing is decorated with Broadway musical paraphernalia.

Aruffo's Italian Cuisine
Food: Italian
126 Yale Ave.
(909) 624-9624
Price: $8-$15
Cool Features: Noodles, lots and lots of noodles

Del Taco
Food: Mexican
1653 W. Foothill Blvd.
(909) 920-3464
www.deltaco.com
Price: $8-$15
Cool Features: Great for late-night dining and drive-thru.

Delhi Palace Express
Food: Indian fast food
313 Yale Ave.
(909) 626-6030
Price: $8-$15
Cool Features: All day, all-you-can-eat buffet.

Domino's Pizza
Food: Pizza
366 W. Foothill Blvd.
(909) 398-0404
www.dominos.com
Price: $8-$15

Full of Life
Food: Bakery, sandwiches
333 W. Bonita Ave.
(909) 624-3420
Price: $5-$10
Cool Features: All sanwiches come on crusty, freshly-baked breads.

Harvard Square Café
Food: French
206 W. Bonita Ave.
(909) 626-7763
Price: $10-$20
Cool Features: Three entirely separate dining areas, each themed differently.

The Hat
Food: Fried food, burgers
857 N. Central Ave.
(909) 949-4607
www.thehat.com
Price: $5-$10
Cool Features: The famous, thinly-sliced pastrami dip sandwich.

In-N-Out Burger
Food: Fast food
2098 Foothill Blvd.
(800) 786-1000
www.in-n-out.com
Price: $3-$8

Mix Bowl Café
Food: Thai
1520 Indian Hill Blvd.
(909) 447-4401
www.mixbowlcafé.com
Price: $5-$10
Cool Features: Late-night on-campus delivery.

Pizza N Such
Food: Pizza, sandwiches
202 Yale Ave.
(909) 624-7214
Price: $5-$10
Cool Features: Sandwiches are baked in the pizza oven.

The Press
Food: Upscale American
129 Harvard Ave.
(909) 625-4808
Price: $10-$15
Cool Features: Press Fries (a giant platter of potatoes and yuccas). And they have a bar too.

Quiznos
Food: Submarine Sandwiches
383 W. Bonita Ave.
(909) 621-9051
www.quiznos.com
Price: $5-$10

Saca's Mediterranean Cuisine
Food: Mediterranean
248 W. Second St.
(909) 624-3340
Price: $8-$15
Cool Features: Huge rotating spits of meat.

Village Grill
Food: Vintage American
148 Yale Ave.
(909) 626-8813
Price: $5-$10
Cool Features: Life sized cardboard cutout of James Dean from “Rebel Without a Cause.”

Walter's
Food: Upscale
310 Yale Ave.
(909) 624-4914
Price: $10-$20
Cool Features: Ambience (if that's cool).

Yianni's Greek Restaurant
Food: Greek
238 Yale Ave.
(909) 621-2413
Price: $8-$15
Cool Features: Greek kitsch decor.

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