Dining hall food has two advantages: it doesn't cost any money on top of your exorbitant meal plan, and you can usually bring it down with a single rifle shot. Aside from these perks, though, the official grub of UConn gets tired fast. Your dollars are hot, getting hotter, burning painful welts into your supple young skin! Order some delivery!
PIZZA AND PALS:
Randy's Wooster St. Pizza
Big ups: The best pizza within walking distance, if you're into the lightly sauced, thin-crust, ever-so-chewy pie. Bonus points for creative toppings; if you try hard enough, you can actually get a pizza with peanut butter on it. I can't guarantee you won't develop at least a minor neurosis afterwards, but hey, it's your life.
Boo to that: Expensive, at least by college standards - upwards of $16 for a three-person pie. And they're not always open late.
Husky Pizza
Big ups: Open incredibly late (2 a.m. or later), and they have plenty of orange booths where your stupid butt can sit. If you've had too much orange soda and you need a little sit-down, they've got your hookup. And their burgers are pretty good!
Boo to that: Bland sauce, thick crust and most of the non-pizza, non-burger menu offerings are tepid. Not as cheap as some other options.
Sgt. Pepperoni
Big ups: Pizza with spicy sauce! Enormous calzones! Incredibly affordable! Great deals if you order online! It's Yum Yum Delicious!
Boo to that: It's not as good as Randy's, and the calzones are so cheap you might find yourself eating them instead of sleeping.
Domino's Pizza
Big ups: Cool! Somebody greased this cardboard!
Boo to that: Everything, everywhere, for forever and a day. Ordering Domino's actually prevents you from graduating summa cum laude. Maybe.
D.P. Dough
Big ups: A ton of varieties. No, literally. A ton. 907.18 kilograms of menu options. If you want it in a calzone, they can put it in a calzone, and daily specials keep costs low for the smart consumer. Technically, they also make wings, but we've got other people for that.
Boo to that: Not as big or fluffy as Sgt. Pepperoni.
CHICKEN AND CHUMS:
Wings Over Storrs
Big ups: Oh, geez, it's chicken wings. Big, tender, juicy, Super Bowl-y, yadda blah blah barf. Lots of delicious flavors. The best wings on campus, out of a total of two options.
Boo to that: More expensive per head than pizza, and if you're a veggie, you're up a deep-fried cruelty creek.
Wings Express
Big ups: The other wings place on campus - but did you know they also serve Indian food? And they deliver! And when you get it, you'll say something like "Damn! This weighs as much as a small dog!" Seriously, it's probably the best price-to-weight weight ratio of anything you'll order in Storrs, except maybe bags of flour.
Boo to that: The wings aren't quite Wings Over Storrs quality. Forget 'em.
OTHERS AND BROTHERS:
Sara's Pockets
Big ups: If you want the friendliest man in the world to serve you delicious and affordable falafel sandwiches, gyros and baklava, this is probably your best bet. Actually, it's your only bet.
Boo to that: You can't order online, and they don't deliver.
Three-Way Chinese Food Battle Royale Bloodfest
Bonus round! Let's get ready to rumble! Okay: Chang's Garden doesn't deliver, Tin Tsin is too salty, and Oriental Cafe doesn't deliver either, but they will feed you sushi. This should be enough information to guide your Chinese-food decision making process. Wow! Brutal!
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