Moretonfig vs. Cafe 84?
by bonesmccoy on Nov 22, 2011 10:08 PM PST
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PrintThat Carl's Jr. now pales in comparison to the Moretonfig restaurant.
Do you realize what these kids are eating now?
My wife just booked us a reservation at the place prior to the Bruin-playoff game this Saturday. And, she asked me to review the menu. The restaurant is where the old Topping Student Center was located. Just prior to when the TSC was torn down, we happened to be on campus and it was one of the last days that the building was open. We went up to the second floor and looked down into the adjacent Science building. There were a bunch of kids in there for a night class. It was hard to believe that over 20 years ago, I was one of those students.
But, now, I'm looking at this menu from Moretonfig.
Wow!
For a regular dinner time meal, they'll serve you Cedar Plank Grilled Wild Salmon or Grilled 12 oz. Angus NY Steak.
http://www.moretonfig.com/Images/Content/Menus/mf_dinner_menu.pdf
Look at that page 1
Back in my day, I was spending my time looking for a hand wrap burrito and Cherry Coke under the union building or having to run back to Cafe 84 for a lousy slice of pizza. These new guys are getting 12 oz. Angus NY steak with shallot confit and bloomsdale spinach? Am I the only alumnus jealous of what these new students get?
This is not your daddy's dorm food is it?
Students at USC now, I'm talking to you, you have no idea...no fricking idea how hard it was to find decent food back in that time. Some guys would go to Yoshinoya Beef Bowl down Fig at night for a snack. We would drive across town to Tommy's for a burger. Now, you guys get Pinot Noir or Chardonnay with your Seared Wild Rock Shrimp?
So, I looked across town at those guys over at UCLA. While USC is serving up moretonfig's, the UCLA page (http://astro.ucla.edu/visitors/places.shtml) shows Stan's Corner Donut Shoppe?
Actually the Bruins have a nice collection of mass marketed food... BJ's, Olive Garden...
Have you ever noticed the web page for UCLA restaurants? They have a rather unfortunate URL of www.asucla.ucla.edu/restaurants. "ASUCLA"? A-SUCk-LA? Who the heck picked that URL name? Really you guys in Westwood need to alter your domain name, or is your netadmin from USC? LOL.
No offense... because the menu at moretonfig's is uniquely picked for the Bruin game...and it's very tasteful...unlike my last comment.
Fight on!
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Uh, Bones, I have something I need to tell you.
99% of USC Students never set foot in Moretonfig. Ever.
Most USC Students see Moretonfig as the alumni restaurant. This is the place where the rich donors to the school go to eat when they visit the campus. I often pass by the restaurant on the way to the Student Center and the people I see in there are overwhelmingly in the 50+ age range.
If you’re a student going to Moreton, either A.) you’re with family and you are having a special lunch or dinner with them for a birthday or reunion or something, or B.) you’re one of the stinking rich Teague Egan-type students that lives in West 27th, has never had to deal with real dorm life or dining hall food, and is taking a random girl you met at the 9-0 to Moreton to show how big your pocketbook is so hopefully she will ask you how big your…well, you get the picture.
Don’t get me wrong. The dining hall food I eat is pretty good most of the time, but it quickly becomes routine, and the food at the big restaurants on campus is something that is only for really special occasions. I have never gone to Moreton, and beyond the dining halls the only places I regularly eat are Ground Zero and Lemonade. And if I’m getting food while watching a road game at Traddies or the 9-0, I’m pitching in money for a large combo platter for a group. A full lunch or dinner at Moreton’s is absolutely out of the question.
Believe me, Bones, when I say that even with these new food joints around campus, the dining halls are still where most students get their food, and over the past few days I have heard many guys on my dorm floor talk about how they can’t wait to head back home for Thanksgiving and enjoy some “real food” for a change.
by TheViewFromFigueroa on Nov 23, 2011 2:27 AM PST reply actions
I’ve been to the Fig and I agree with Bones, it is very good. However, it is not for the typical undergrad. The place was built to accommodate well heeled parents, wealthy foreign grad students, and spoiled-rotten coeds. So yeah, it’s completely out for the mainstream but it serves a very specific purpose. It could be said that If this place were located inside ugly’s campus it would have been occupied already.
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin
U feeling Loco?
yeah that's what I'm saying Agrippa... UCLA doesn't have this type of scene yet
They built that terrific A-SUCk-LA student union building near that Bear.
Is that a Bear or a Bruin?
I think Cal thinks they’re the Bear.
Anyways, maybe they’ll build MoreToWilshire or MoretoBelAir?
You don’t think that those Olive Gardens are owned by USC Marshall grads, do you?
I mean who’s on the Rose Bowl Commission up there in Pasadena/LaCanada?
Are those guys a bunch of USC guys?
There was a time 20 years ago that Westwood has some great restaurants, but not anymore in fact downtown LA is becoming the restaurant distention now.
Yes we can't play in a Bowl and that is lucky for the rest of College FB' but next year we at USC will dominate.
by so.cal.native1952 on Nov 23, 2011 7:36 PM PST up reply actions
uh...may be I shouldn't ask this question, but
what do you go to Westwood for then?
It wasnt about ucla but going on a date for a first run movie and a restrurant after or before.
It was either there or dorthy chandler pavilion, or malibu to moon shadows
Yes we can't play in a Bowl and that is lucky for the rest of College FB' but next year we at USC will dominate.
by so.cal.native1952 on Nov 24, 2011 1:55 PM PST up reply actions
Also it was the 70s and early 80s
Yes we can't play in a Bowl and that is lucky for the rest of College FB' but next year we at USC will dominate.
by so.cal.native1952 on Nov 24, 2011 1:56 PM PST up reply actions
Yep, whole lotta Trojans were hanging out in Westwood back in the day
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin
U feeling Loco?
Yah my dates always where very well planded out
Never had to push anything
Yes we can't play in a Bowl and that is lucky for the rest of College FB' but next year we at USC will dominate.
by so.cal.native1952 on Nov 24, 2011 3:47 PM PST up reply actions
Mario's and Monty's and Hamburger Hamlet and the Village Deli and the Chart House
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again
-R. Zimmerman
Yes those were the places but a young gun would not understand
Yes we can't play in a Bowl and that is lucky for the rest of College FB' but next year we at USC will dominate.
by so.cal.native1952 on Nov 25, 2011 11:46 AM PST up reply actions
Fantastic Place, the BEST!
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again
-R. Zimmerman
Must have beer goggles firmly installed
"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin
U feeling Loco?
If you are sober at Chanos you have failed
"Ain't no tuition for having no ambition." -Brandon Carswell
if any of you consider Crappo Hell the best mexican
I will personally hunt each and every one of you down.
by Joe Trojan on Nov 24, 2011 1:37 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Delta co
Best frat on the row.
Fight On! Beat everybody but us!
Maybe student are not at Mortonfig but....
Bones is tight though, there are more option The Lab for for one plus the plug in chains restaurants along Figueroa and coffee places. When I was an undergrad – we were basically limited to campus — anyone remember "Big McKay" burgers – non-desript to awful, although it was entertaining watching the pigeons try fly after filling up on the greasy fries……
I liked ‘garbage burritos’ at El Rey’s (?)… I don’t remember if that was the name but it was on Vermont maybe at Adams….
I also think other the a few places on Fig above Jefferson and the "new" University Village it seems more comfortable now in more of University Park with more students living in and around campus.
by trojanarchitect on Nov 23, 2011 12:19 PM PST reply actions
Give me Julie's or give me death!
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again
-R. Zimmerman
Yep I remember hanging out Julies before Sunday Ram games.
Yes we can't play in a Bowl and that is lucky for the rest of College FB' but next year we at USC will dominate.
by so.cal.native1952 on Nov 23, 2011 7:37 PM PST up reply actions
Before a Lambs game?
What you talking about Willis? Before and after a Trojan game! That’s what I’m talking about.
and then Sc and the Raiders, Class of Marcus Allen!
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again
-R. Zimmerman
And what happened to Sizzler's across from Pardee and College?
Any one else here remember the Sizzlers?
lol
All you can eat shrimp
S-s-s-s-sizzler!
A Quick Note for the Quitters
No comment from this thread will be deleted. You will have to own them when we get it turned around and beat Southern Cal. You will never ride the bandwagon when we come back. Not on BN. GO BRUINS.
by Nestor on Sep 4, 2010 9:24 PM CDT
Sizzler's was turned into the Lab/that other Italian place whose name escapes me.
Pretty good food and good beer on tap
Drinking so much that you forget your name is like trying to cure cancer, it might not be possible, but you should never stop trying.
The real question is
do they take dining dollars there? I remember freshman year all of the kids who had the dining dollars meal plan with hundreds of dollars left over at the end of the semester would take their friends out to Upstairs Cafe for some fine dining. That tradition should continue in the new digs!
Dining dollars at the end of semester
In our dorm, the dining dollars could be used for all sorts of great bottled and packaged foods. We would go down in December and stack up on a few cases of bottled and canned drinks, freeze dried food, and trail mix. This was our supply for finals week and going into January.
I was a Junior and my friend was a Frosh, boy did we raid the late night cafe. The poor manager had no idea what was happening at first. We went down there and came walking up the stairs with cases of drinks. Before we knew it, our dorm closets were stacked with cases of drinks, chips, trail mix, and other snacks.
The manager was getting irate with us because each night she would stack up and each night we would go down at 8 PM to buy out the inventory by 8:30. By 9 PM there wasn’t inventory of those good selling items for the rest of the students who were coming in between 9-10 PM for a late night snack. Oh well…you snooze… you lose… This isn’t UCLA guys. Get in first and you get first crack. FIFO
Well, she got the clue and doubled down on the inventory by the end of the week. She was one happy manager by the end of the first week of December. I’ll bet she ended up with the best sales figures of that year because our dorm floor caught on and started to empty out her supply in the next week. We ended up with great supplies for the next semester and she ended up with great sales numbers. By January of the following year, she was upgrading the grill with a big screen TV (yeah, current students, we didn’t have one of those until she put one in the grill for our late night viewing fun).
And, yes, we could have blown those dining dollars on a girl from upstairs, but heck… we needed the drinks and snacks! No offense to those wonderful ladies upstairs… we invited them down in January for the snack parties. :)
Ha, the trojan dining plan
There was never anyway you could spend all of that money in the dining halls and since it was a sunk cost everyone always stocked up on chasers and energy drinks at Trojan Grounds so it didn’t go to waste. I think we probably could have hydrated the entire football team for a couple of weeks with how much powerade we had in our dorm.
The other thing we would do is go to upstairs commons (when it still existed). Place was ridiculously overpriced and we would try to get the bill up as high as possible so that once again, the dining dollars wouldn’t go to waste. I made a friend for life with one of the waiters there when I asked what was the absolute most I could tip him on a meal at the end of first semester freshman year.
Drinking so much that you forget your name is like trying to cure cancer, it might not be possible, but you should never stop trying.
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