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Oct 21, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | socialBy Manuela Moreyra |Jessica Singh |Manuela Moreyra |Macy Sinreich
Next Saturday, Oct. 26, Columbia students will face an impossible choice: Halloween or Homecoming. Or both. In a rare cosmic collision, two staple New York City and Columbia traditions will merge into the same chaotic Saturday. Typically celebrated on separate weekends to preserve both our sanities and GPAs, this year’s overlap will force students to juggle costumes, football, and questionable life choices all at once.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Macy Sinreich |Takashi Williams
Tuna salad, chipotle mayo, pepper jack cheese, red peppers, shredded lettuce, onion, and red vinegar; these are the ingredients that make up “The Abby Hsu,” a new grab-and-go sandwich offered at Chef Mike’s Sub Shop for the first time last Monday. The sandwich is the result of a collaboration between Columbia Dining and the sandwich’s namesake, former Columbia women’s basketball star Abbey Hsu, CC ’24.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Julianna Lozada |Macy Sinreich
The café culture of yesteryear, with its writers, musicians, and poets, seems like a distant memory. The hybrid work structures left over from the COVID-19 pandemic have transformed cafés into places to work from home. I say this not begrudgingly, but instead with curiosity about the establishments that shape us. Today, a good café has free Wi-Fi and leather-wrapped chairs where you can sink in and feel productive for working up the courage to start your senior thesis due this month.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Julianna Lozada |Macy Sinreich
On the walls inside Symposium, there are angels in abstract glory. The ceiling looks like a layout of someone’s record collection. The artist behind the interior design, Yanni Posnakoff, is also the restaurant’s founder. Since 1969, Symposium hasn’t changed much. Chef Dan, the current owner, told me it was important to sustain the original walls and ceilings. Symposium stands as one of the oldest Greek restaurants—if not the oldest—in all of Manhattan.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Julianna Lozada |Macy Sinreich
On the walls inside Symposium, there are angels in abstract glory. The ceiling looks like a layout of someone’s record collection. The artist behind the interior design, Yanni Posnakoff, is also the restaurant’s founder. Since 1969, Symposium hasn’t changed much. Chef Dan, the current owner, told me it was important to sustain the original walls and ceilings. Symposium stands as one of the oldest Greek restaurants—if not the oldest—in all of Manhattan.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Julianna Lozada |Macy Sinreich
What makes a perfect slice? The question is far too deep-seated in regional cuisine wars for there to be a universal answer. Consider the New York-style slice cut from the familiar round American pie, or a slice from a traditional Sicilian slab. Mama’s TOO! delivers an innovative style combining the two. The slices come either round or rectangular, thick with a crispy bottom and a saucy center, making for a completely new, original style.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Julianna Lozada |Macy Sinreich
Columbia students are no strangers to Milano Market. The Italian deli—located near campus on 113th Street and Broadway—has been serving the Upper West Side for over 20 years. When you walk in, the first thing on your left is the deli counter where you place your sandwich order. The menu boasts 155 sandwiches and 11 wraps and melts, but you don’t need to be intimidated. Just behind the deli counter, spaced between the jerseys of Columbia athletes past, are blackboards with featured sandwiches.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Julianna Lozada |Macy Sinreich
In Sex and Rage, Eve Babitz’s slightly fictional persona, Jacaranda, moves to New York City from Los Angeles to start her career as a writer. When someone asks her what she thinks of New York City, she replies, “Well, it’s nice. But there’s no burritos.” I’d never felt as homesick for California as I did reading that line while eating a very disappointing burrito in the West Village. Before I settled in New York City, I operated with Jacaranda’s mindset.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Julianna Lozada |Macy Sinreich
Spring is coming. For Punxsutawney Phil, that means he didn’t see his shadow. But for Columbia seniors, the shadows of graduation—and, in my case, the daunting task of organizing a summer trip with my friends—loom large. My friends and I decided to schedule the first installment of our summer trip planning over dinner. We settled on going to Fumo on a Wednesday, when wine is 50 percent off—and there’s nothing Columbia students love more than discounts on drinks.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Julianna Lozada |Macy Sinreich
Last year, I had a 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. show on Saturdays at WBAR, Barnard College’s free-form Internet radio that broadcasts from a studio in the basement of Brooks Hall. At these ungodly hours, no one was up to listen (except for my mom on the West Coast)—and there were definitely no establishments open nearby. I often showed up to my slot famished, tired, buzzed from a night out, or all of the above.
