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OFF THE HILL
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2006
DINING
Top 10 places to get your grub on in Lawrence
1. All-you-can-eat chips, white cheese dip and frozen margaritas from El Mezcal 1819 W. 23rd St. and 804 Iowa St.
Sometimes all you need for a great meal is a tasty appetizer and a jumbo drink.
At El Mezcal the chips and salsa are complimentary and the white queso dip is a must.
Visit on a Tuesday night for the Mexican restaurant's jumbo margarita special.
2. A 14-inch custom-made pizza slice from Papa Keno's 105 Massachusetts St.
At this downtown pizza joint, one slice can be enough to satisfy.
Papa Keno's is famous for its oversized order-it-how-you-want-it pizza slice, with a choice of more than 30 toppings.
3. Double Johnny Wilson burger from Johnny's
401 N. Second St.
This stacked burger is one reason to brave the not-so-tough crowds and permanent men's-locker-room smell of Johnny's.
It's well known that Johnny's has the best burgers in town, but their fries are woefully underrated.
4. The Yello Sub at Yello Sub 624 W. 12th St. and 1814 W. 23rd St.
Six inches or a foot-long? You decide. Either way the Yello Sub namesake —
ham, roast beef, turkey, swiss, bacon, lettuce, mayo - assembled on made-from-scratch whole-wheat bread will satisfy your grumblings from below.
Yello Sub offers 43 other meat subs and 12 veggie subs. If the great American meal — the submarine sandwich — isn't quite enough, add locally-made Art's and Mary's chips or a fresh, delectable chocolate chip cookie.
5. India Palace lunch buffet 129 E. 10th St.
Try something new, and a lot of it. The weekday lunch buffet at India Palace lets customers try several dishes that are off the beaten Massachusetts Street path.
Arrive hungry; all buffet slayers will get their money's worth.
6. Spinach pie at Mad Greek 907 Massachusetts St.
Don't let the name fool you — this isn't the vegetable you loved to hate in grade school. Mad Greek's spinach pie plate includes two helpings of flaky spinach and cheese-filled phyllo dough pies and a large portion of Greek salad. Creamy cucumber tzatzilki sauce tops this dinner for the perfect taste of Greece.
7. Steak rice bowl at La Parilla 814 Massachusetts St.
The most undiscovered item at this Latin-American cafe is its steak rice bowl. First-timers scoff at the bland-sounding meal, but try it once and you'll be an "I already know what I want" repeat rice-bowl buyer. The bowl's also reasonably healthy, especially if you bail out and go vegetarian.
8. Brunch for a king at Teller's 746 Massachusetts St.
This ritzy downtown eatery offers the best brunch in Lawrence on Sundays from 9 a.m., to 2 p.m.
Arrive early and ready to fill up on fresh raspberries, blueberries, balsamic vinegar salads, Italian and custom-made omelettes, crepes, sausage, bacon, luncheon pastas, chocolate and strawberry turnovers, bread pudding and mini cinnamon rolls.
9. Fish and chips at Free State Brewery 636 Massachusetts St.
636 Massachusetts St.
Who says you can't get good seafood in Kansas? Well, anyone who's tried it. But Free State's fish and chips are the exception to the rule. Don't ask questions, just eat it. It's always good, even if Free State doesn't serve it in the traditional grease-soaked newspaper.
Order a beer to go with your fish and you can't go wrong.
10. Hy-Vee Chinese 4000 W. Sixth St. and 3504 Clinton Parkway
Where else can you get generous portions of two entrees, rice, one egg roll or crab rangoon and a cup of tea for $4.99? Amazingly, this is the best Chinese in town, served in the worst restaurant atmosphere.
》 HOUSING
Subleasing provides quick, easy solution to renting problem
BY ADRIENNE BOMMARITO
When Nick Arthachinda ended his presidential term for his fraternity, Delta Upson, 1025 Emery Road, in December of 2005, he wanted to move out of the house as soon as possible.
But because all of his friends had already signed apartment leases, Arthachinda needed a solution.
He said he got lucky.
He said he goes to He contacted The Legends, 4101 W. 24th Place, to see if they offered six-month leases or subleases.
They did.
They Luck.
The Legends allowed residents to move in on any day throughout the year, depending on vacancy, with no extra cost, said Susan Rinke, property manager for The Legends. All leases ended July 31st.
The trick to the flexible move-in date was subleasing. If apartments had residents that needed out of their leases early, then they had the option of filling out an information sheet describing living styles, which would then be placed in a database.
When prospective residents needed an apartment, the office would search through the database for similarities in information, and then would perform the switch.
Arthachinda found his one-bedroom apartment using this system.
Other apartment complexes offer
similar solutions, such as Hutton Farms, 3401 Hutton Drive, which allows residents to move in at any time, if there are available apartments, and if the quota for that leasing period hasn't been reached.
The quota number is set by the owner and based on the accounting books for the complex, according to Josh Eberline, a member of the management team at Hutton Farms.
"Shorter leases leaves us open in times when people aren't wanting to lease," Eberline said. "That's the reason they have quotas."
Hutton Farms offers three lease-ending dates: July 31, May 31 and December 31.
If the complex knows of an apartment whose residents want to sublease, then the complex will suggest that apartment when prospective residents are interested.
Even though there is a $100 sub-lease fee, Eberline said the process shouldn't cause too much stress because the complex helped find new residents to take over.
"We try to get them as fast as possible," he said. "It is a pain for anyone to have to deal with that."
Kansan staff writer Adrienne Bommarito can be reached at abommarito@kansan.com
—Edited by Dani Hurst
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