Monday morning was off to a good start when my supervisor drove in from Pennsylvania for her monthly check-in. We met at the Statler Hotel for an early-morning (in my mind anyway) breakfast. The restaurant in Statler is a rather fancy joint – by college student standards – called Taverna Banfi. Now, after months of dining hall food, I’m slowly losing touch with the concept of a formal, served meal where a large selection of food groups are represented. Banfi’s was a pleasant respite.
I was running a bit late so my supervisor took the initiative and ordered “The Cornellian” for me – a large selection with scrambled eggs, sausage, toast, fruits, and other things which I gulped down over conversation. The best impression I have of the place is the outstanding service – all the servers addressed me by name. My juice and coffee was constantly refilled (that of course never happens in dining halls, not even during house dinners, which is a shame. Something to look into implementing?).
Lobby of the Statler Hotel, which is literally a few meters away from Ives Hall, the ILR building. (Images from Google)
Looking at the 161 Things Every Cornellian Should Do just now, I realized I accomplished half of #67 – Eat at Taverna Banfi (formely Banfi’s) and charge it to CornellCard. Next time I guess I’ll splurge on my own budget.
Y’all should try a real breakfast sometimes =D
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I love the pictures on this entry.
Regardless, welcome back to the blogosphere.
Shush, I wanted first commenter credits.
Watch your figure, Phoebe.Promiscuous
Congrats Brian, you’re officially first on the last entry!! Travis somehow googled his way to this blog when it wasn’t even public yet, so no brownie points (it’s okay, you’re still awesome Travis).
Oh my, you actually went ahead with the whole Ivy Years thing. I thought you were joking.
Its sad to see your blog without the obligatory pictures of coffee beans and rants about all-nighters. *nostalgic sigh*
I smiled a bit at the ‘running a bit late’ part, hahaha. Good to see that you’re doing well over there, Phoebe! (Okay, ‘well’ is a bit of an understatement. Cornell looks a-maz-ing.) We miss you
@Abigail – oh you know me too well!
Haha, the outstanding service at Statler Hotel, my advisor here at Penn told me that it’s his favorite hotel b/c of the outstanding service, and outstanding it is because it’s ran by students and they are all being graded for it, lol XD.
I see someone is running google analytics on here… Should I be worried?… (Honestly, I only typed “Ivy Years”) ^__^
The follow me twitter is a really cool feature. Congrats on winning Maroon 5 tickets! Wanna share, hehe?