Area Restaurants, Bars, and Shops

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Chauncey Hill Locations

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Lovshak: Known for their intensely creative calzones with creative names and college atmosphere. Delivery: (765) 743-3700
Blue Nile: Mediterranean restaurant featuring vegetarian options
Olive House: Mediterranean restaurant featuring vegetarian options
Khana Khazana: Indian restaurant featuring largely North Indian cuisine and a buffet option
Greyhouse: Coffee house and lounge which occasionally hosts live music
Vienna Coffee: Popular local coffeehouse with beverages and sandwiches
Boiler Market: Casual sit-down restaurant famous for their “Pitcher and a Pie [Pizza]” deal.
Parthenon: Greek cuisine
Captain Gyro: Fast food Greek cuisine
Basil Thai: Inexpensive and popular Thai dishes for casual dining or take-out
AHZ: Serves sushi and Korean food
Fu Lam: Chinese food restaurant. Delivery: (765) 743-0300
Lenny’s Sub Shop: Famous sub restaurant Delivery: (765) 743-6468
Hot Box: Pizza joint known for their bags of breadsticks and giving tootsie rolls with every pizza. Delivery: (765) 743-3400

Brother’s Bar and Grill: A franchised bar that offers a few billiards tables.
Egyptian Café and Hookah: A spacious hookah bar featuring Egyptian food.
Harry’s Chocolate Shop: A Purdue classic, this bar has been on campus since 1919 and was once a speakeasy. It’s known for being terribly cramped, giving out free popcorn, the infamous free “Birthday Shot”, and Green Dragons.
Where Else?: The bar with the largest dance floor of the bars “up the hill”. However, some students steer clear because dancing and TV programs can become what would seem to some as uncomfortably inappropriate.
Jake’s: Restaurant and Bar, remains open to all ages 11am-9pm, 21+ after 9. They are known for their free hotdogs at certain points throughout the night.
Café Hookah: Restaurant/lounge serving Middle Eastern and Lebanese cuisine and hookah (flavored tobacco). It also transforms into a classier bar/nightclub where 18+ are welcome, though there is a small cover.

Von’s: An independently owned new and used book store that also sells almost everything in between: CDs/movies, an extensive collection of beads and jewelry, stuffed animals, and incense.
Amused: A second-hand clothing store with a quirky feel
The Discount Den: The ultimate college store. Gag gifts (semi-inappropriate) on the left, college food and candy in the center, and cheap Purdue clothes on the right. They’re also home to the famous “Den Pop” which is approximately a half-gallon of fountain soda for 53 cents.
University Spirit: Purdue apparel and a shirt design counter specializing in Greek apparel
Indigo: Cute, though small, semi-reasonably-priced women’s boutique (Especially as compared to Juniper and Collette in the Levee behind Scotty’s). Geared towards a college audience.

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Bruno’s and Puccini’s: Sit-down pizzerias.
Topper’s Pizza: Usual and unusual pizza toppings, generous toppings.
Snowbear: Ice cream/frozen custard parlor.
Scotty’s: Sports bar with a wide selection of gourmet burgers and sandwiches; good place to watch the final four.
El Rodeo: Mexican sit-down restaurant known for their massive margaritas.
Buffalo Wild Wings: Also known as BW3’s or B-Dubs, a chain sports bar known for their wings. This is also a great place to watch the final four.

Neon Cactus: Bar frequented by students on Thursday nights for drink specials, though it is open throughout the weekend. This bar hosts the largest dance floor of all the campus bars and the infamous “Piano Man” show with Bruce Barker. (There is a small cover for the dancing atmosphere other bars don’t have.)
Movie Theatre (Wabash Landing 9): Closest movie theatre to campus.
Nine Irish Brothers: Classy Irish restaurant and bar. Must be 18+ for admittance, except Sunday afternoon.
Village Bottle Shop: One of the many liquor stores on campus. (Another, possibly closer, is Bar Barry Liquors behind Q’Doba and Einstein’s in the Village.)

Juniper and Collette: High-end women’s boutiques with a very unique selection
The Game Preserve: Fun games and magic store

Additional Locations

Restaurants

Triple XXX Family Restaurant (Named after the root beer): 24 hours a day with great burgers and breakfast foods. The place screams Purdue and is frequented by late-night weekenders. Definitely well-loved, as it should be, since it’s been around since 1929. It was also featured on Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. Located on the left as you walk down State Street past Chauncey Hill towards the Levee.
The Union Commons: The group of restaurants in the basement of the Union on campus. Includes Pappy’s Sweet Shop, a 50’s style diner with great milkshakes and burgers; Loops, a restaurant dedicated to cereal, fresh oatmeal, crepes and gourmet lunches; Lemongrass, Asian cuisine; La Fiesta, Mexican food; Villa Pizza, an “Italian Kitchen”; Flatbreads, a soup, salad, sandwich place; Oasis, a coffee house and sandwich shop; and Starbucks.

Evening Activities

The Union Rack and Roll: a bowling and pool hall in the basement of the union on the east side of the building. Weekend evenings, “Xtreme Bowling” mixes a laser light show with bowling.

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