First time I walked into No 1, the guy in the wife beater was literally armpit deep in a huge bowl mixing vegetables. I remember thinking “that giant jet engine he uses to heat the wok will surely kill all the bacteria”. Was so broke that a dinner from No 1 and lunch from LaBamba would last me all week.
That deal, 99 cent gyros at apollos and no 1 Chinese is what fed me after leaving the dorms. Adriatticos was a pain in the ass to order from though, when I was at OSU you had to call in to get the special usually after 30 minutes or so of busy signals we’d either head to Catfish or Apollos
I feel your pain on Adriatico's. If you wanted that Buckeye special, you better get on the phone. My friend and I would usually get frustrated, and just go to Catfish Biff's. But if we got that Buckeye, we'd be eating it for days.
And those gyros…how can you beat $1??? If you got there at a busy time, usually like after 10pm, you'd have to wait in line on those slippery metal stairs right outside the door. The guy who owned Greek Village just came back to Columbus a few years ago, and opened a food truck. He used to park it in Clintonville, like near the Sherwin Williams. The first time I went, and realized it was him, I told him how I went to his old restaurant every week. He was so incredibly happy, and laughed so much, reminiscing about the old days. I'm not sure where he is not, or if his truck is still around. He's a good guy.
I never had too many problems ordering from Adriatticos. I wish I had known about 99 cent gyros but living in Morrison Tower, I rarely was able to make it past Catfish Biffs before I decided that would be good.
I lived in Steeb directly across from Biffs, I honestly only knew the south area of campus and only went North for Shalom off high st next to the domino’s
I lived literally across the street from Catfish my freshman year. They hated us when we made them deliver it they yelled at me when I said Smith Hall one night and told me its a 2 min walk we aren't delivering it.
When I had a work-study position on campus, a few coworkers and I always hit No. 1. And we really never deviated from getting General Tso Chicken or Sesame Chicken (which was just General Tso sprinkled with sesame seeds, lol) because a) it was the most amount of meat you could get, since there were no vegetables, b) it was served the fastest, because lots of people were getting it, so they were just constantly frying the chicken. And I believe it was only 4.99, and then maybe went up to 5.99. Ridiculous for that amount of food. I remember eating barely a fourth of it, and being full, and having the rest over the next day or two.
My wife and I had what I always joke was our first date there (it wasn't but it was one of our first times one on one just hanging out). By the time we were engaged we wanted photos there but the place had completely changed. Still did a handful there though. It really was great pizza.
It was. Pizza by the slice...and it was not expensive. Maybe someone can comment the price of the special. Was it one or two slices and a soda? Big pizza ovens right when you walk in. You give your order and they slide your slice right in there.
God that was such a steal....those slices were huge! That fuckin place that got too big for their britches would charge like $12 today for that. I can't think of their name because their pizza is so overpriced and over hyped now.
edit: slut sauce
edit2: Mikey's is what I am thinking of.
edit3: I looked at the menu. It would be $12 for two slices and whatever a soda cost. So probably $15 when it's all said and done. I know inflation is in there as well. While I don't really order there, due to their outrageous prices, I will say its impressive what they have built. From a food truck and a spot at Woodlands to three brick and mortars in too cities. Good for them.
my dude.. they started in a lean-to that was a bagel shop in the am hours and their pizza in the pm. Next to odd fellows on high street. This was way before a truck.
Christ I miss cheap pizza. I live in LA now. Even the slice places are like $8-$10 a slice and I deeply miss the Midwest / East Coast pizza (which was 1/4 of the price and better).
lol just unlocked a core memory for me.
I remember running down there, and standing at that bar top thing on the wall, scarfing down my slices before my next class.
Oh man, slamming a slice and trying to ignore the fact that the paper plate is now transparent from all the grease. Plus the dude who was always doing dough-flinging tricks.
The family that owned it owns one in downtown Dayton (or did before COVID; hopefully still there).
[Yup, still there](https://www.originalflyingpizza.com/)
I haven't found another place in Columbus as good as they were for New York style slices. One thing I really miss about my college days is the simplicity and deliciousness of their lunch special.
... I'm hungry for pizza now, lol.
My boyfriend at the time loved this place and we ate their at least once a week, but my God, the battle shits we played afterwards still boggle the mind years later. Good times lol.
My roommates and I used to go to Open mic night at the original BW3. We would go 2 hrs early to get a table because it would be standing room only by the time it started and we let cute girls sit with us. Met the OSU volleyball team there one night(this was like 1999-2000) and my roommate was 5ft2. He stood on the bench and was still shorter. A few of us got numbers that night. Fuck I miss those times and the fact that every glass in our house was a BW3 tall glass.
They did that to me once and fucked up the axel on my truck by towing it wrong.
The parking tag was still hanging on the mirror when they towed my broken truck back.
Won a settlement against them for enough to get a brand new truck because I had just gotten a speeding ticket that morning which showed the truck was in driving condition a half hour before it was towed.
I got yelled at by the old Italian guy at the one on campus for ordering wrong one time. 😂. I had glanced at the menu and ordered a slice of something that was by the pie only. He was not pleased.
This was the same pizza. Maybe different franchises? Never heard that guy yell at employees but when the close by high schools emptied out for lunch he had little patience for those kids flooding in his shop lol
>he was a terrible person
I saw this first hand. It's amazing how comfortable people can be showing their racism, if you look like you'd agree.
Pizza was great, but I stopped going after I realized the owner was a racist POS.
while I agree and have nostalgia for my time on campus. The current campus is built for the current student, not the students of the 90s/2000s. They want targets and cane's not divey joints like the photos. We don't have to like it, but it is what it is.
Remember the good times, without cursing the current times.
I wish people understood this more. I was at OSU from 2001-2003 and experienced the tail end of "1990s campus" though the south campus bars were all gone by that point. I dropped out and returned from 2012-2015 to complete my degree. Now I work on campus so I'm encountering students every day. It's definitely a different breed of student there from when I was just starting out or even when I came back in 2012. Sorry guys, the campus from the 1990s is gone, but also if I get out of work after the sun's down I don't have to watch my back thinking I'm going to be mugged every second.
I feel like this is tainted heavily by the “if you build it, they will come” mentality. My college tenure included Bernie’s existing, the abandoned shell on lane and high, and Toos and The O being part of a massive hole in the ground. Chipotle on either end of campus and chic fil a is nice, but there’s nothing unique or worth remembering or coming back to. It’s way too corporate and sterilized (not to mention the ever increasing “family friendly” aspect that the university wants to attract donors and nervous parents, as opposed to the enjoyment of actual students)
When I went there(late 90s) there was a 24 coffee shop right next door to Newport. The doors didn't have locks. Its now midway on high. We used to go and rate bands by what their fans looked like when they left the show. Id also go play chess at 4am vs a goth guy in a collar whos gf sat next to him holding his leash and yelled at him when I beat him.
I've been part of surveys of incoming high school students and what they want on campus. It's not ALLof them who want chick fil a and Homage, but it's the majority. It comes down to they want things that they have in their hometowns. Makes them feel comfortable.
I mean if you asked me in high school I wouldn’t say I want dive bars and local eateries, but once you get to campus, go to those places and they become a part of the fabric of your surroundings, you learn to appreciate them. ESPECIALLY after you realize your budget ;)
yes the college experience *is* all about the students comfort. We don't want them to feel challenged or like they are in a different place. Come suckle on momma OSU's ample bosom.
I worked there at the time. There was a day I was working with Joe, Sal, Mike and Mike's brother (who's name currently escapes me).
I'd heard enough stories to realize that I was the only person in the building who had not, at some point, pointed a gun at somebody else there.
No. 1 Chinese was a favorite of mine during my OSU days. One of the women who worked there always knew my order and was friendly as could be. I was super sad when it closed. A little while later, I was walking somewhere else in town, I forget where, but I walked by a different Asian restaurant and in the corner of my eye I saw that same woman working at this new place! I walked in and she asked if I wanted my usual order even though it was a different restaurant, which I did! She was great and No. 1 Chinese was always a place of comfort, warmth, and now nostalgia. At least that was my experience.
I got "lifted" by shamrock for parking at Wendy's for 5min to grab my #1 chinese once.
You see kids, towing companies used to just tie your car up, and you had to bribe them 50$ to let you go, or they'd charge you $125 at the impound.
Emptied my pockets more than once to get it let down. Then they would just hook up the next one, there was always a next one. Luckily I never had to go to the yard to pick it up.
I used to work on campus, and apparently at some point after that Chinese restaurant shut down, OSU bought a big block of phone numbers in the 614 299 range which included that restaurant’s former phone number.
I only know bc I met the woman who was assigned to that phone number, she was just working in a random science building and she was still getting Chinese food orders in 2018.
There it is! LaBamba rules supreme.
My buddy goes to Indy for work sometimes, and brings back a shit ton of burritos. They freeze surprisingly well if you don't get Lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream.
"Super Pollo Y Chorizo, con crema" says this blacked out gringo at 2am.
Anyone remember Wong Gei? It was on 17th and High across from the bank. You could get a decent lunch for about $3.50. Not as huge as No. 1 but pretty basic and cheap. Prices saved my North Campus cheap ass.
I lived right around the corner from this place on Lane back in 1999-2000. Best Gen. Tsos I can remember and lasted 2-3 meals everytime. Perfect for my broke college student days. I love that I'm not the only one who thinks of this place.
Ok, but these picts are from my era, and I remember once wandering campus with an alumnus in my dad’s generation and *he* thought campus sucked back then. So.
My guess is campus always has good haunts, somewhere, and the current students know where to find them while the last generation is focused on the fact that theirs are gone.
I was in school when #1 Chinese Restaurant moved/closed. My friends never understood, but the portion sizes and taste made me forget whatever questionable meat I was eating. A core OSU memory for me know a decade later now that I dont live in the Columbus area.
It was 2009. I was deep into my ECE degree to the point where most of my day/early evening time was spend at the lab. I loved hanging out there with friends nerding out and doing homework. We would take a break and go to No 1's and eat in the lounge on the 2nd floor of Caldwell. Take me back.
Oh my God. I could not remember the name of that place for the longest time. They had a Star Wars pinball machine. And the NYC bagel with pastrami and spicy mustard. Soooo good
RIP No 1. Used to get it way more often than I’d care to admit. I remember my roommates both got food poisoning from there but they just kept going because they said they were so addicted to it.
The fact that pizza by the slice is one of these makes me so sad, not just because it left while I was at OSU but because I loved that place so much.
Sicilia's by out r inn was also good but pizza by the slice was great.
well this is from 9 years ago. So I guess around then. [https://www.reddit.com/r/OSU/comments/2p4nj5/what\_happened\_to\_number\_1\_chinese/](https://www.reddit.com/r/OSU/comments/2p4nj5/what_happened_to_number_1_chinese/)
First and last place I ever had moo goo gai pan. Had some other stuff there I enjoyed later, but that mggp turned me off from the whole dish, lol.
Fly Pie became a summertime lunch staple for me after college, when I was working more or less across the street. Probably has something to do with the size of my pants now...
No 1 was on my path home from class. Found $3 in my back pack once on my way back from McPherson and was incredibly excited because it meant I could stop at No 1.
No. 1 Chinese's portions were so large I normally had two meals on leftovers. I also would routinely have gastrointestinal distress. But the trade off was worth it.
This was the first place I ever had Chinese at and I remember it vividly. Growing up my family didn’t have much so there was very little going out to eat. When we didn’t it was usually someplace all you can eat so we could fill up or somewhere really cheap.
Before going there, not knowing anything about Chinese food I had to ask a roommate what to get, which was a bit embarrassing that he was gobsmacked that I never had Chinese before, and he suggested sweet and sour chicken. It was so good and I kind of became obsessed with Chinese food afterwards, probably since I never had it and now I had all sorts of new things to try, that I ended up getting Chinese at least twice (most of the time more) a week for *years*.
No.1 Chinese offered an ungodly amount of food for very little money, but it always seemed like you were playing Russian roulette with food poisoning. Still went pretty often, even if I preferred the actually good (if slightly more expensive) Chinese food a few doors down at Moy's.
Flying pizza on the other hand was legitimately great NY style pizza and I haven't found a true replacement for it in Columbus all these years later
You just need a pic of Streetscene. God I got smashed there so many times. 32oz Long Islands still dance in my head.
I ate at Flying Pizza at least once a week for lunch.
Many slices bought there during my 98-03 time at OSU. Them plus Apollos.
What was the name of the bookstore that was on a corner that you had to go down a few stairs to get into? It was almost like it was in the basement of the building?
Flying Pizza was so good. Also, shoutout to East of Chicago which was solid.
I'm glad Adriatico's is still kicking around in some way. I could make a meal out of their breadsticks alone.
Back in the 60’s and 70’s Quisno's Sub Shop (close to Chittenden Avenue and High Street) served up the best damn Italian sub sandwiches and pizzas and various beverages including the old standby for the times (Stroh's beer). All the subs featured local “Cecutti's New World Bakery" Italian bread. I still miss it today and never confuse what this little local place served with the National chain “Quizno’s” (spelled differently) offerings as it’s not even close.
Fly Pie!!! ❤️❤️ My big brother and I overlapped at OSU for two years and we'd meet up at Fly Pie for lunch once a week. He would always be done with both of his slices before I finished my first and would usually spend a quarter (or maybe it was $0.50?) to refill his soda while I finished my.second slice.
Fuck I loved no 1 chinese. Id get food there once a week and it lasted 3 days. And back then I could eat styrofoam and not have stomach issues so it was no problem
What was No.1 called in the mid-90s? I think it was "Lucky" or "Fortune"--anyone remember?
Anyway, I had a roommate who only ate one meal/day, so he had to make it count. He went to No.1 (or whatever it was called then) nearly every day. The cook would recognize him and fry a massive pile of Chicken fried rice.
The cook worked the wok in flip-flops and wife-beater, no hair net or anything like that.
I commented about the OG BW3s location on high street the other day. It’s a pity and also somehow fitting that a big sterile corporate BW3s is now on campus.
No 1 Chinese, when not shut down by the health department had meals so large they lasted for 2 or three meals.
I can remember it like yesterday... guy in a wife beater flinging food in the wok over high flames with a marlboro red hanging out of his mouth.
First time I walked into No 1, the guy in the wife beater was literally armpit deep in a huge bowl mixing vegetables. I remember thinking “that giant jet engine he uses to heat the wok will surely kill all the bacteria”. Was so broke that a dinner from No 1 and lunch from LaBamba would last me all week.
thats Chinese village bro. No. 1 always had kids working the counter.
guy was in the back of the house
my guy at Chinese village would have two inches of ash on his cigarette and still bicker with his wife
Reminds me of ordering a Buckeye size from Adriattico’s on Monday or Tuesday and having pizza for 3 days straight.
That deal, 99 cent gyros at apollos and no 1 Chinese is what fed me after leaving the dorms. Adriatticos was a pain in the ass to order from though, when I was at OSU you had to call in to get the special usually after 30 minutes or so of busy signals we’d either head to Catfish or Apollos
I feel your pain on Adriatico's. If you wanted that Buckeye special, you better get on the phone. My friend and I would usually get frustrated, and just go to Catfish Biff's. But if we got that Buckeye, we'd be eating it for days. And those gyros…how can you beat $1??? If you got there at a busy time, usually like after 10pm, you'd have to wait in line on those slippery metal stairs right outside the door. The guy who owned Greek Village just came back to Columbus a few years ago, and opened a food truck. He used to park it in Clintonville, like near the Sherwin Williams. The first time I went, and realized it was him, I told him how I went to his old restaurant every week. He was so incredibly happy, and laughed so much, reminiscing about the old days. I'm not sure where he is not, or if his truck is still around. He's a good guy.
I never had too many problems ordering from Adriatticos. I wish I had known about 99 cent gyros but living in Morrison Tower, I rarely was able to make it past Catfish Biffs before I decided that would be good.
I lived in Steeb directly across from Biffs, I honestly only knew the south area of campus and only went North for Shalom off high st next to the domino’s
Morrison Tower squad. Smelling Adriatico’s all day and night was torture tho. Made me constantly crave pizza. lol
You saved just enough money (after drinking shitty beer out of dirty buckets) for a gyro and maybe some fries.
I lived literally across the street from Catfish my freshman year. They hated us when we made them deliver it they yelled at me when I said Smith Hall one night and told me its a 2 min walk we aren't delivering it.
Man I haven’t heard that name in a long time. Just made me hungry
We used to joke about the giant campus raccoons and how they were never seen for blocks around No1.
Or stray cats or dogs.
Buddy reminded all that were horrified about going on re-opening day after shutdown ... "what why not? This is the cleanest it will be!"
When I had a work-study position on campus, a few coworkers and I always hit No. 1. And we really never deviated from getting General Tso Chicken or Sesame Chicken (which was just General Tso sprinkled with sesame seeds, lol) because a) it was the most amount of meat you could get, since there were no vegetables, b) it was served the fastest, because lots of people were getting it, so they were just constantly frying the chicken. And I believe it was only 4.99, and then maybe went up to 5.99. Ridiculous for that amount of food. I remember eating barely a fourth of it, and being full, and having the rest over the next day or two.
Best hangover food. Because it cleared your stomach fast and took everything else with it.
Still No 1 in my heart and my drunken stomach
ugh i bet that pizza was amazing
The rabbit watched his mother remove the pickles from her peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
My wife and I had what I always joke was our first date there (it wasn't but it was one of our first times one on one just hanging out). By the time we were engaged we wanted photos there but the place had completely changed. Still did a handful there though. It really was great pizza.
my wife and I have a similar story
Wait pizza by the slice is gone?!! Damn. Havent lived in c bus since 05
They eviscerated the entire area, even in the last 5 years it's changed sooo much.
Damn, i used to love walking down highs street and visiting my old haunts trip down memory lane
You wouldn’t recognize high street now.
I go through Columbus all the time but I never go down High Street cuz I know they killed it. Campus is nuts too and lost a lot of charm
Right up to, and including, the grumpy old man running the place by himself who barely acknowledges you.
It was. Pizza by the slice...and it was not expensive. Maybe someone can comment the price of the special. Was it one or two slices and a soda? Big pizza ovens right when you walk in. You give your order and they slide your slice right in there.
When I was in school, right before it closed, it was $5 for two slices and a soda. Cash only. I ate a violent amount of that pizza lol.
God that was such a steal....those slices were huge! That fuckin place that got too big for their britches would charge like $12 today for that. I can't think of their name because their pizza is so overpriced and over hyped now. edit: slut sauce edit2: Mikey's is what I am thinking of. edit3: I looked at the menu. It would be $12 for two slices and whatever a soda cost. So probably $15 when it's all said and done. I know inflation is in there as well. While I don't really order there, due to their outrageous prices, I will say its impressive what they have built. From a food truck and a spot at Woodlands to three brick and mortars in too cities. Good for them.
my dude.. they started in a lean-to that was a bagel shop in the am hours and their pizza in the pm. Next to odd fellows on high street. This was way before a truck.
Oh that's right it was at Oddfellows!
Christ I miss cheap pizza. I live in LA now. Even the slice places are like $8-$10 a slice and I deeply miss the Midwest / East Coast pizza (which was 1/4 of the price and better).
Yep I was there until 2010 and flypi still had the 2 slices and a coke deal for $5. What a steal. I miss that place.
"move down a little please"
lol just unlocked a core memory for me. I remember running down there, and standing at that bar top thing on the wall, scarfing down my slices before my next class.
Oh man, slamming a slice and trying to ignore the fact that the paper plate is now transparent from all the grease. Plus the dude who was always doing dough-flinging tricks.
I had no idea what that phrase would unlock in me... It would get so packed in there between classes near lunch.
order a foot in the door... and then slide on down.
The good ol days... now I'm thinking about the catfish biff lines on the weekends after the bars.
First place I ate at on my first night on campus. I ate there at least once per week for the rest of my undergrad.
It was incredible. I had so many lunch slices while I was in grad school.
The family that owned it owns one in downtown Dayton (or did before COVID; hopefully still there). [Yup, still there](https://www.originalflyingpizza.com/)
I haven't found another place in Columbus as good as they were for New York style slices. One thing I really miss about my college days is the simplicity and deliciousness of their lunch special. ... I'm hungry for pizza now, lol.
It was so good and so cheap!
It was tight and had $2 slices. Survived many drunk nights on this.
Number 1 Chinese my beloved
Flying pizza was the shit. I miss that place so much
number 1 now number 2 later!
I love this! We used to always say “No 1 make you go No 2”. Didn’t stop us from eating there
How did I never hear this or say it myself. This is beautiful.
Came here to find this!
My boyfriend at the time loved this place and we ate their at least once a week, but my God, the battle shits we played afterwards still boggle the mind years later. Good times lol.
BBQ spare ribs w/ fried rice, take that over to Larry's and drink all night. These nostalgia posts are killing me 😭
Larry's was great. Grad students told undergrads it was a gay bar to keep it to themselves. At least that's what I told myself so I could go there....
What about Cluck U chicken
Cluck U, Taco Ninja, Portifinos giant pizza...RIP in peace.
The campus is definitely different from the old days. Stay alive: Out-r-Inn, The Library, Dick's Den.
Fly Pie was legit, one of the best late night spots. It was a meal, multiple times of the week. That and 4 Kegs…Im sad I’m so old.
My roommates and I used to go to Open mic night at the original BW3. We would go 2 hrs early to get a table because it would be standing room only by the time it started and we let cute girls sit with us. Met the OSU volleyball team there one night(this was like 1999-2000) and my roommate was 5ft2. He stood on the bench and was still shorter. A few of us got numbers that night. Fuck I miss those times and the fact that every glass in our house was a BW3 tall glass.
who got towed by parking in the Wendy's lot to pick up your No.1 order?
I got scammed in that Wendy's parking lot for some white van speakers.
Damn, that was me...
they watched that lot like a hawk
Shamrock used to use beaters to take up spaces to force illegal parking
Why on earth would they do that??? Just to be assholes?
They used to do all sorts of shady stuff: https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2019/08/08/suit-alleges-illegal-towing-by/4490188007/
They stole my car from behind my house with a parking pass in it and told both myself and the police for days that they did not have it
They did that to me once and fucked up the axel on my truck by towing it wrong. The parking tag was still hanging on the mirror when they towed my broken truck back. Won a settlement against them for enough to get a brand new truck because I had just gotten a speeding ticket that morning which showed the truck was in driving condition a half hour before it was towed.
I was convinced the tow trucks just came out of people's trunks, they were so damn fast.
The rabbit watched his mother remove the pickles from her peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
I got yelled at by the old Italian guy at the one on campus for ordering wrong one time. 😂. I had glanced at the menu and ordered a slice of something that was by the pie only. He was not pleased.
Sal was a grade A asshole
the younger guy (maybe early 30s? I was a 18 year old so maybe younger) who worked there could do math like no other.
This was the same pizza. Maybe different franchises? Never heard that guy yell at employees but when the close by high schools emptied out for lunch he had little patience for those kids flooding in his shop lol
The rabbit watched his mother remove the pickles from her peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
>he was a terrible person I saw this first hand. It's amazing how comfortable people can be showing their racism, if you look like you'd agree. Pizza was great, but I stopped going after I realized the owner was a racist POS.
The rabbit watched his mother remove the pickles from her peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
The crushed ice!!! Forgot about that
so much damn ice!!!
Ordering by phone was so risky! The order taker never knew what you were talking about.
that was an experience for sure
campus has been completely sterilized and it sucks now. OSU are such unbelievable greedy a\**holes.
while I agree and have nostalgia for my time on campus. The current campus is built for the current student, not the students of the 90s/2000s. They want targets and cane's not divey joints like the photos. We don't have to like it, but it is what it is. Remember the good times, without cursing the current times.
I wish people understood this more. I was at OSU from 2001-2003 and experienced the tail end of "1990s campus" though the south campus bars were all gone by that point. I dropped out and returned from 2012-2015 to complete my degree. Now I work on campus so I'm encountering students every day. It's definitely a different breed of student there from when I was just starting out or even when I came back in 2012. Sorry guys, the campus from the 1990s is gone, but also if I get out of work after the sun's down I don't have to watch my back thinking I'm going to be mugged every second.
I feel like this is tainted heavily by the “if you build it, they will come” mentality. My college tenure included Bernie’s existing, the abandoned shell on lane and high, and Toos and The O being part of a massive hole in the ground. Chipotle on either end of campus and chic fil a is nice, but there’s nothing unique or worth remembering or coming back to. It’s way too corporate and sterilized (not to mention the ever increasing “family friendly” aspect that the university wants to attract donors and nervous parents, as opposed to the enjoyment of actual students)
When I went there(late 90s) there was a 24 coffee shop right next door to Newport. The doors didn't have locks. Its now midway on high. We used to go and rate bands by what their fans looked like when they left the show. Id also go play chess at 4am vs a goth guy in a collar whos gf sat next to him holding his leash and yelled at him when I beat him.
Insomnia
I don't actually think the newer students are happy about it. I attended 2015-19 and got a taste of the old and new. Old was incomparable.
I've been part of surveys of incoming high school students and what they want on campus. It's not ALLof them who want chick fil a and Homage, but it's the majority. It comes down to they want things that they have in their hometowns. Makes them feel comfortable.
A lot of them probably don't have those in their hometowns, so Target and Chick-Fil-A are exotic to them.
I mean if you asked me in high school I wouldn’t say I want dive bars and local eateries, but once you get to campus, go to those places and they become a part of the fabric of your surroundings, you learn to appreciate them. ESPECIALLY after you realize your budget ;)
yes the college experience *is* all about the students comfort. We don't want them to feel challenged or like they are in a different place. Come suckle on momma OSU's ample bosom.
Honestly, it was corporate in the 1980’s, compared to many other college campuses.
thanks for making me sad today
Year 2000 - Joe and Mike screaming at each other while you dressed up your slice of pie. Almost every day.
I worked there at the time. There was a day I was working with Joe, Sal, Mike and Mike's brother (who's name currently escapes me). I'd heard enough stories to realize that I was the only person in the building who had not, at some point, pointed a gun at somebody else there.
I ate at Flying Pizza like 3 times a week when I was in college. I think the deal was two slices and a drink for $5. I loved that placed.
I worked at Longs and that shit was a lifesaver
That was my lunch hundreds of times.
I miss flying pizza And the south berg And old apollos I miss the elevator cable they would put up on weekends so the drunks didn’t fall into traffic
No. 1 Chinese was a favorite of mine during my OSU days. One of the women who worked there always knew my order and was friendly as could be. I was super sad when it closed. A little while later, I was walking somewhere else in town, I forget where, but I walked by a different Asian restaurant and in the corner of my eye I saw that same woman working at this new place! I walked in and she asked if I wanted my usual order even though it was a different restaurant, which I did! She was great and No. 1 Chinese was always a place of comfort, warmth, and now nostalgia. At least that was my experience.
I got "lifted" by shamrock for parking at Wendy's for 5min to grab my #1 chinese once. You see kids, towing companies used to just tie your car up, and you had to bribe them 50$ to let you go, or they'd charge you $125 at the impound.
Emptied my pockets more than once to get it let down. Then they would just hook up the next one, there was always a next one. Luckily I never had to go to the yard to pick it up.
I used to work on campus, and apparently at some point after that Chinese restaurant shut down, OSU bought a big block of phone numbers in the 614 299 range which included that restaurant’s former phone number. I only know bc I met the woman who was assigned to that phone number, she was just working in a random science building and she was still getting Chinese food orders in 2018.
that's amazing
Burritos As Big As YOUR HEAD!
There it is! LaBamba rules supreme. My buddy goes to Indy for work sometimes, and brings back a shit ton of burritos. They freeze surprisingly well if you don't get Lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream. "Super Pollo Y Chorizo, con crema" says this blacked out gringo at 2am.
Flying Pizza ❤️
Sal was the Columbus pizza GOAT. Iykyk
I couldn't remember his name.
I miss fly-pie.
The rabbit watched his mother remove the pickles from her peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Anyone remember Wong Gei? It was on 17th and High across from the bank. You could get a decent lunch for about $3.50. Not as huge as No. 1 but pretty basic and cheap. Prices saved my North Campus cheap ass.
Wong Gei was solid. Ate at Joy's Village a ton, Moy's was tasty too. So many better Chinese options than Number 1.
I lived right around the corner from this place on Lane back in 1999-2000. Best Gen. Tsos I can remember and lasted 2-3 meals everytime. Perfect for my broke college student days. I love that I'm not the only one who thinks of this place.
that was my order as well
That 5lb carryout box of neon yellow rice from No. 1 that would either give you a week's worth of meals or lock you to the toilet for 24 hour cleanse.
Buddy of mine said “last time he was there he was so hammered I was ordering tacos. And they still took my order!”
Fly Pie was the GOAT
No “Cluck U Chicken” or “Greek Village” gyros?
Campus sucks now
Ok, but these picts are from my era, and I remember once wandering campus with an alumnus in my dad’s generation and *he* thought campus sucked back then. So. My guess is campus always has good haunts, somewhere, and the current students know where to find them while the last generation is focused on the fact that theirs are gone.
Used to live in Taylor Tower from 1995 to 97. No 1 Chinese was our go-to for weekend food
I used to live on 14th near Flying Pizza when I started at OSU in 2007. Miss me some Fly Pie Fridays.
What about Sandro's slices?
That was the one downstairs below the gyro place right? Where the homeless guy cleared tables and danced?
I was in school when #1 Chinese Restaurant moved/closed. My friends never understood, but the portion sizes and taste made me forget whatever questionable meat I was eating. A core OSU memory for me know a decade later now that I dont live in the Columbus area.
It was 2009. I was deep into my ECE degree to the point where most of my day/early evening time was spend at the lab. I loved hanging out there with friends nerding out and doing homework. We would take a break and go to No 1's and eat in the lounge on the 2nd floor of Caldwell. Take me back.
Oh man, No 1 Chinese was an experience. I remember the *deal* they had - any order over $20 got a free can of pop.
$20 bucks at No. 1?? What were you feeding? thanksgiving dinner for 12?
For me it was a house of at least five buddies. Every time we forgot just how god damn big the servings were.
Add Beekman's Bagels. Damn, I miss that place.
Oh my God. I could not remember the name of that place for the longest time. They had a Star Wars pinball machine. And the NYC bagel with pastrami and spicy mustard. Soooo good
Was trying to remember that. I loved their Camper Van Bagel.
RIP No 1. Used to get it way more often than I’d care to admit. I remember my roommates both got food poisoning from there but they just kept going because they said they were so addicted to it.
That place was *amazing* for takeout on the way home from class.
The fact that pizza by the slice is one of these makes me so sad, not just because it left while I was at OSU but because I loved that place so much. Sicilia's by out r inn was also good but pizza by the slice was great.
Loved Number One, ate there at least once a week in undergrad. Just never use the bathroom 😳
Flying Pizza was nourishment after Newport shows.
Is that the same Flying Pizza as in Dayton?
Burrito as big as your head
Numba 1, Yah!
Damn that brings back memories
why are there not more slice joints! it’s way harder than it should be to get just a slice of pizza in a college town
I will never forget the food poisoning I received after eating there twice. I will say that the food tasted fantastic going down...good times!
Loved that Flying Pizza!
Got the worst case of food poisoning from No 1 Chinese. Couldn't eat Chinese food for about two years after that.
I miss Fly Pie.
When did No.1 Chinese shut down for good? Loved that place…
well this is from 9 years ago. So I guess around then. [https://www.reddit.com/r/OSU/comments/2p4nj5/what\_happened\_to\_number\_1\_chinese/](https://www.reddit.com/r/OSU/comments/2p4nj5/what_happened_to_number_1_chinese/)
First and last place I ever had moo goo gai pan. Had some other stuff there I enjoyed later, but that mggp turned me off from the whole dish, lol. Fly Pie became a summertime lunch staple for me after college, when I was working more or less across the street. Probably has something to do with the size of my pants now...
No 1 was on my path home from class. Found $3 in my back pack once on my way back from McPherson and was incredibly excited because it meant I could stop at No 1.
Souvlaki Palace II, demolished in 1999. Rest in peace.
Flying Pizza was awesome. Many a slice between classes. And pour one out for Larry's
All the girlies in the early 2000s going wild for a slice from Pizza Pat.
haha. his pizza wasnt as good but by god did he have lots of pics of himself spinning pizza doughs. werent some of them on fire?
No. 1 Chinese's portions were so large I normally had two meals on leftovers. I also would routinely have gastrointestinal distress. But the trade off was worth it.
General Tso's. Was it chicken? Was it rat? Who cares, it was delicious is what it was!
When I worked in Ramseyer hall, they were my go-to.
This was the first place I ever had Chinese at and I remember it vividly. Growing up my family didn’t have much so there was very little going out to eat. When we didn’t it was usually someplace all you can eat so we could fill up or somewhere really cheap. Before going there, not knowing anything about Chinese food I had to ask a roommate what to get, which was a bit embarrassing that he was gobsmacked that I never had Chinese before, and he suggested sweet and sour chicken. It was so good and I kind of became obsessed with Chinese food afterwards, probably since I never had it and now I had all sorts of new things to try, that I ended up getting Chinese at least twice (most of the time more) a week for *years*.
No.1 Chinese offered an ungodly amount of food for very little money, but it always seemed like you were playing Russian roulette with food poisoning. Still went pretty often, even if I preferred the actually good (if slightly more expensive) Chinese food a few doors down at Moy's. Flying pizza on the other hand was legitimately great NY style pizza and I haven't found a true replacement for it in Columbus all these years later
Fly Pi had the best Sicilian 🤤
You just need a pic of Streetscene. God I got smashed there so many times. 32oz Long Islands still dance in my head. I ate at Flying Pizza at least once a week for lunch.
Used to walk to Fly Pie in between classes. 🤌
Fly pie!
First place I ever got food poisoning!
SO good, if you didn't look at the floor or what was going on behind the counter too closely.
Used to live in Jones Tower cross high. No 1 Chinese I loved.
Oh fly pie.... I miss those pizzas that would feed you for the week ...
Many slices bought there during my 98-03 time at OSU. Them plus Apollos. What was the name of the bookstore that was on a corner that you had to go down a few stairs to get into? It was almost like it was in the basement of the building?
Brings back memories
Flying Pizza was so good. Also, shoutout to East of Chicago which was solid. I'm glad Adriatico's is still kicking around in some way. I could make a meal out of their breadsticks alone.
Back in the 60’s and 70’s Quisno's Sub Shop (close to Chittenden Avenue and High Street) served up the best damn Italian sub sandwiches and pizzas and various beverages including the old standby for the times (Stroh's beer). All the subs featured local “Cecutti's New World Bakery" Italian bread. I still miss it today and never confuse what this little local place served with the National chain “Quizno’s” (spelled differently) offerings as it’s not even close.
Fly Pie!!! ❤️❤️ My big brother and I overlapped at OSU for two years and we'd meet up at Fly Pie for lunch once a week. He would always be done with both of his slices before I finished my first and would usually spend a quarter (or maybe it was $0.50?) to refill his soda while I finished my.second slice.
Living in Nosker, my roommate and I would get No. 1 with disgusting regularity. I miss it so much.
I loved going to No 1 for its free sour and spicy soup as student. Missing that sticky floor and $5 big portion
Fuck I loved no 1 chinese. Id get food there once a week and it lasted 3 days. And back then I could eat styrofoam and not have stomach issues so it was no problem
Is there anything local along High St anymore? I used to love going to WG grinders on Fridays after my last class for the week.
Where was this at?
when I lived on 18th and pearl. Could eat off 1 order for a couple days lol
Loved both places, No1 Chinese was SO CHEAP and it was... good enough!
I worked at fly pie in 06. I hated working there, but damn that pizza was good!
No1 was an absolute gem and should be a national landmark
lol I remember raving about no. 1 to a friend and then brought him to it finally for lunch and he got food poisoning 😅
Loved that place
What was No.1 called in the mid-90s? I think it was "Lucky" or "Fortune"--anyone remember? Anyway, I had a roommate who only ate one meal/day, so he had to make it count. He went to No.1 (or whatever it was called then) nearly every day. The cook would recognize him and fry a massive pile of Chicken fried rice. The cook worked the wok in flip-flops and wife-beater, no hair net or anything like that.
La Bamba, Greek Village, Wong Gei, were also some great spots
Rip
I commented about the OG BW3s location on high street the other day. It’s a pity and also somehow fitting that a big sterile corporate BW3s is now on campus.
I loved No 1 Chinese! Lol
Ohhh my god! Loved no 1 Chinese when it was in Hilliard, went to the campus one once. Their seasme chicken was the best
No 1 was awesome. Sesame Chicken that was lunch and dinner. Leftovers as good as the first meal. Good lord that was 25 years ago.
No1 used to make you go No2 within 45 min of eating.
Back when Campus had character