{"id":9462,"date":"2025-07-22T20:35:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/?p=9462"},"modified":"2025-07-23T14:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:54:35","slug":"listen-cherubs-check-out-three-evanston-eats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/07\/listen-cherubs-check-out-three-evanston-eats\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN: Check out these three Evanston eats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Cherubs check out these three Evanston eats by Medill Cherubs\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2134844535&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=800\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[CHERUBS AUDIO INTRO]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WAITRESS: All right, what can I get for you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[MUSIC]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sargent Dining Hall is open three meals a day for the entire program. But sometimes, even the most devoted Cherub needs a break from lunch trays. Today, we\u2019re taking you to three of our favorite eats around Evanston.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First up: bagels and orange juice at Mensch\u2019s, a Jewish deli only a ten minute walk from campus. For cherub Alex Fagell, Mensch\u2019s babka French toast is a taste of home, even from hundreds of miles away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ALEX FAGELL: I\u2019m Jewish, and back home, I go to a deli a lot, at least once a month. So having the chance to go to Mensch\u2019s was a really good opportunity and really fun.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sara Ortiz has been three times and tried a different sandwich each visit. But even more importantly than the food, the biggest thing bringing her to Mensch\u2019s is the wait staff, who treat her like family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SARA ORTIZ: The employees there are the best. I love them so much, they deserve the whole world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the Sargent chow mein isn\u2019t cutting it for you, get your Asian fix at Eggs with Benefits, which is also a ten minute walk from campus. For Evan Yao, the rice bowl with curry and scrambled egg was a much needed comfort meal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EVAN YAO: And I\u2019m Asian American, so I really do miss having white rice. It was really filling, and I really like how all the flavors combined, and yeah, I really liked how all the Asian flavors worked really well with all the dishes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For late night sweet treat runs, check out Kilwins for ice cream, fudge, and candy apples. Evelyn Du was wowed by the store\u2019s abundance of flavors and their community-first outlook when she and her friends visited after the Fourth of July fireworks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EVELYN DU: There were so many cherubs there, so there was a really long line. It went out the door. We got there really close to closing, so I think we were one of the last people in the store. But even though we were probably in there past their closing time of, I believe, 10:30, they still let us in, and they served us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But when the day comes\u2014and it\u2019ll come\u2014that your card declines and you\u2019re forced to brave the trek to Sargent, let cherub Evelyn Kraber give you one tip to make your meals a little easier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EVELYN KRABER: You get one plate that you eat there. And then you go and you throw as much as you can into a to-go container. And that\u2019ll last you, like, two days. It\u2019s all about the strategy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[MUSIC]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Cherubs Audio, this is Leah Hwang and Abi Paterniti. We\u2019ll see you next time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Music in this episode by Podington Bear.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From rice bowls to waffle cones, here\u2019s where cherubs recommend grabbing a bite around town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":9846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14,19],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[514,516],"class_list":["post-9462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-city","category-living-in-evanston"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":514,"user_id":231,"is_guest":0,"slug":"leahhwang","display_name":"Leah Hwang","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/05cc9b89dac75f35654d9c6d96d70d1cb71f789b8e31460d3ef486bc9a0007c5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Hwang","first_name":"Leah","job_title":"","description":""},{"term_id":516,"user_id":251,"is_guest":0,"slug":"abigalepaterniti","display_name":"Abigale Paterniti","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/40b930b5135bbd0b0657901d4c862f83ceff75fb0a43ba55be5d7b10046b3c2d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Paterniti","first_name":"Abigale","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10251,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462\/revisions\/10251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9462"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=9462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}