Kung Fu Tea appears to be the Loop’s newest star. The bubble tea chain opened a location on Delmar Boulevard Wednesday, Sept. 25, with a grand opening event on Sunday featuring traditional lion dances performed by martial arts school International Shaolin Wushu Center.

Guerilla Street Food, described on its website as “Filipino-American fast casual restaurant,” has four locations in St. Louis, including one that opened last year on the Delmar Loop. The relatively new restaurant has made waves in the city’s food scene, earning the 25th spot on Ian Froeb’s “Top 100 Restaurants in St. Louis” rankings.

Located just around the corner from the City Museum, Hiro Asian Kitchen provides a combination of Asian fusion offerings with a cool ambience, decorative cloud-like lights, a modern stone wall by the bar and private oak wood seating sections.

Just a 15-minute walk from campus, Seedz is situated so that vegans, vegetarians and meat-eaters alike can always find some astoundingly delicious baked goods, smoothies, tacos, salads and more. This cafe offers a wide variety of nutrient dense, plant-based options that any customer, no matter their dietary practices, can enjoy.

I love sitting at a table with friends, eating food that you can talk about and savoring it. I did so the other night at Publico, which is closing Dec. 22, and which is what I consider the last such restaurant on the Delmar Loop.

Dining Services’ summer installation of an RFID-based soda fountain system has caused quite a stir across campus recently. The system’s efficacy is currently being examined by dining services, amidst student questions about whether the system is truly beneficial for “sustainability,” as dining services posits, or whether it’s simply a cash grab based on assumptions about patron behavior.

Vegetables, veggies, that green stuff. Whatever you call it, plants have a crucial role in human diet and are critical in keeping us healthy.

I love pasta. I love its shapes, I love its sauces, I even like saying pasta because it makes me remember happier times when I had pasta and wasn’t just saying it in a mirror three times to force it to appear.

While it is no longer owned by France, the effects of St. Louis’ French founding can be seen today. Check out Nathaniel Reid Bakery in Kirkwood.

After countless stir-fries, bagels, burgers and salads from on-campus dining options, there is one gem we can all turn to for support: Subway.