Anyone Know Of A Place To Eat In Ontario?
I feel very bad for the kids who are going to be stuck in Ontario for 3 days. That's where I took the bar exam last year and the sparse location didn't help on test day.... Ontario gets oppressively hot in the summer and I was sweating an unhealthy amount whenever I went outside for more than 5 minutes. Additionally, there really isn't a lot around the Ontario Convention Center except for a bunch of hotels. It was a daily adventure involving a lot of driving when trying to find a place to eat dinner w/ friends. After being stuck in a large room w/ thousands of other people taking a stressful test all day long, spending another hour in a car to get food is not fun.
For those of you going to Ontario in July, keep all of this in mind. Especially make sure to find places to eat beforehand to minimize the amount of time at night trying to get food.
I'm not sure that I'll have much of an appetite on test days. I was planning on just bringing a box of energy bars and bottles of water to sustain me throughout the three days of testing. But it would be nice to have a decent dinner with drinks after testing is completely over. So if anyone has any suggestions about eating out in Ontario please leave a comment or two.
posted by W at 5:56 PM
4 Comments:
There's a Del Taco, In-n-Out, and room service for dinner. We stayed at Ayres Suites, which had continental breakfast complimentary - do NOT skip breakfast! You will need that fuel! But for lunch, I suggest packing (i.e., stocking your hotel room with deli sliceds and fruit), because you do NOT want to be caught in any of that traffic on the way back to the exam. Not to mention, parking's a bitch if you park at the Convention Center or any of the surrounding hotels.
5/28/2006 5:44 AM
I stayed at Ayres Suites last July and this Feb at the Sheraton (I passed this Feb). The Sheraton Club suites has free munchies and drinks from 5-7pm which was a really nice way to unwind (the Sheraton pool is bigger than Ayres :) The Indian restaurant was disappointing - but the In-n-Out Burger was fabulous (I'm trapped on the East Coast - so that was a piece of CA heaven). Another good place for Cobb salads and cheap diner fare is the diner on the corner near Ayres(Cobb salads are really good for lunches during the Bar - lotsa protein no bulky carbs).
Bon appetit!
5/29/2006 12:41 PM
Here is a link on the convention website that lists all of the local restaurants and shows where they are:
http://www.ontariocc.com/ocvb/entertainment/restaurants.html
5/31/2006 1:06 PM
Thank you very much.
5/31/2006 2:12 PM
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