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;|gHHIHHBnjHHftj| Bffl I 1?$?^! 9 wBBSLm&M |E6lj^HBflg|H|M Gold a f a wortl By Skot Qarrick lit! fai If the average college student Ca has an expense budget anything jus like mine, then eating out can be a very wallet-shattering experience, is When one has orecions littln n*v I money to spend, one wants to make po: sure that it isn't wasted. There are tw few things as aggravating as the m? feeling you get after dumping ba: nearly $20 into a meal that doesn't Th deserve to be served with Alpo. So in finding a dining spot of exceptional dir merit becomes a necessity for even the the most casual food fan. 1 The Golden China Restaurant, Go located at Boozer Shopping Center, all solves the value problem as well as sin offering a refreshing change from res the usual steak-and-potatoes route. av< There are several Oriental 1 eateries in town, but this one is mc number one in my book. an; The Golden China tends to stay en< more along the lines of traditional an< Oriental cooking and does very arc I Imagine The Biggest, I You can Thin ^52f \'\r Then Come or call 799-5708 foi $500 min. 3-8 PM daily exc Grouch* 5 Points Deli ft 61 1 HarcU By Henry G The Villa Tronco cuisine. Located at across the street fro a place which mak from the rain a gratifying experienc from the wetness t( and warm atmosphe Trnnrn affn.H? pleasurable sense but not claustrophc plain wooden furnitu n^H looking tableclothes kind of simplicity th associates establishments. Om rW 4?/^ pects a little man mustache, soulful table and entertain l with a Neapolitan str The Villa Tronco restaurant. HHHH^HHHHHH^HI Italian i China dining iy experience :le Americanizing. The bill of mospheric that I ha *e emphasizes a wide choice of in. ntonese or Szechuan cuisine, not For those worried it "Chinese food." cliche of Oriental co The price range of Golden China hungry again after along the standard that most haven't eaten one < ler "posh" restaurants use. It is China entrees. The ssible to spend up to $20 for a came so stocked wi o-party meal, but it is by no and meat that it ap] *ans necessary. The best mountain-like. This, rgains are the entree plates. the two appetizers ] ese widely varied dishes come the meal, is more i two sizes; the small entree human being could iner runs for about $5 or so, and in one evening. ; large entree is around $8. Oriental eating is , )ennis Leong, co-owner of The that everyone shoul lden China, is himself a USC once. The wide vari imnus. He has been co-owner flavors and just ce August and has seen the cultural atmosphere itaurant turn a more-than- meal to be enjoyable, erage level of business. rsE5jSjSn|^ssH| rhe atmosphere is one of the >st pleasant that I have found in y establishment. Tables are far nigh apart to ensure comfort. 1 for true lone wolves the booths ~ ; the most isolated and at- I , Bestest Sandwich | i to Groucho's hHMP t r Free delivery order. ept Sunday 9 S|^ppiS|f|? . m - ?r. > Ice Cream p|^||i|i|||||| ?n St. tepS||;:Sp|fW f/an sfyJ it Villa 1 reen was opened by the Tr whose forebears came serves Italian anci for whom the es 1213 Blanding, was named, with the mTapp's, it is serving Italian ! es coming in stationed in Columbic particularly Jackson, specifically e. To walk in after World War I. T\ ) such a snug missed their moth re as the Villa cooking, and there wa provides a Columbia that served contrast. _ not until the Villa T nacy is also into its own, that is. ronco is small Today the restauran )bic, and the by Carmella Troncc re and homey- lovely dark-eyed lad make for the husband Henry, wh< at one usually attended USC w; Wom-and-Pop basketball player e almost ex- distinction of being with a bushy score 1,000 points in 1 eyes and an They run the Villa 1 from under a with their daughter C the customers her husband Joe Roch< eetsong. The food, of coinis indeed a makes the Villa Trc As the first piaCe to eat. The ther i Columbia, it cooperation runs ever the pasta and the cms! Tronco's pizza is hon spaghetti noodles, f< have a marvelous texi will not find within the a package, and the ve ever dined ? ^ about the old A |j 1 oking, "you're H lnl|l j an hour," you ^ 1 611111 f of the Golden 4\Ul J ; small plate * m ith vegetables \1 ?^\\^. .# peared almost coupled with M il? provided with * food than one possibly hold Eni?V delicious vt veal scallopine, cl an experience ALL. HOMEMADE, d try at least ety of dishes, NOW feB the outright Hofl promise any !e reigns Fronco onco family, bread is suitably hot and crusty. It ! from Sicily is hard to imagine an Italian ;tablishment restaurant that does not serve intention of bread of some description, and the servicemen Villa Tronco's bread can be i ? at Fort described as very nice indeed. To - during and polish the pasta and pizza, one can lese soldiers have his choice of spumoni or cake, ler's home which, like the noodles, is made by s no place in the Martins themselves. The Italian food chocolate cake should be rronco came recommended, in particular, for its richness. t is operated The Villa Tronco would be i Martin, a convenient as a place where ly, and her movie-coers could havp Hinn*?r 3, when he before going to see the film of their is a star choice. The restaurant lies only with the one block from Main Street, along the first to which Columbia's downtown JSC history, theaters are located. 'ronco along As for USC students, the Villa armella and Tronco is fairly close to campus, 3. but those who would benefit the se, is what most from the restaurant are the >nco a good students who live in the Wade ne of family Hampton Hotel. As Mrs. Martin i here, as all said, they are only a bus ride away, .for the Villa if they do not feel like walking lemade. The there. >r example, With its quiet atmosphere and its ture that one superior food, the Villa Tronco is : precincts of definitely one of the better places homemade to eat in Columbia. 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