This week’s article takes us deeper into the Claremont Village by taking a stroll down First Street, where the road is lined with trees, bright neon signs and a host of businesses hoping to grab your attention. Walk up the wooden steps of the unmissable two-story, block-long building and through
Food
Taste Buds: Meet your Match-a in Claremont
Guest columnists Anuradha Krishnan PO ’24 and Louis Burns PO ’24 rate Matcha places in the Claremont community.
Moments to Savor: A Rainy Day Quest for a Cookie
For Emily Kim PO ’25, soups and stews are quintessential rainy day foods — and so are cookies.
Let’s Go Local: Fresh Fruit & Friendly Faces
Michelle Zhang PO ’27 highlights three vendors who sell goods at the Claremont Village Farmers Market.
Moments to Savor: An ode to Malott breakfast
With a new semester in full swing, Emily Kim PO ’25 reflects on the beauty of Malott breakfast.
Let’s Go Local: Claremont Village study spots
Small business columnist Michelle Zhang PO ‘27 ranks her top study spots in the Claremont Village by ambience, affordability and overall study-ability.
Moments to Savor: Growing up at Thai Cafe
Food columnist Emily Kim PO ‘25 reflects on one of her favorite restaurants from her childhood, Thai Cafe. Food can be a window into the past, Kim reflects, but can also mark how much a person has grown.
Moments to Savor: The comical contents of greenboxes
Emily Kim PO ’25 amusedly suggests that the contents of a green box can reflect a college student’s state of mind.
Moments to Savor: My caffeination meditation
Food columnist Emily Kim PO ’25 has had a complicated relationship with coffee. Freshman year, it was a means to get through midterms and finals; now coffee evokes fond college memories.
Moments to Savor: a Trader Joe’s run, literally
The first couple weeks back on campus are always hectic. For returning students, it’s a time to resume habits and cultivate new ones. Food columnist Emily Kim PO ’25 reflects on the pros and cons of running to Trader Joe’s.