When the academics of Macalester have you in a headlock and Café Mac seems a little repetitive in their food choice, one may seek out Green Mill.

About a ten-minute walk from the Campus Center, Green Mill is, to say the least, a decent restaurant.

I don’t pretend to be an all-knowing food critic, so I surveyed many people who had gone, trying to figure out what kind of restaurant Green Mill is. Although Green Mill offers a variety of foods, their pizza is by far the best choice. I recommend the Mowie Wowie (It’s pizza with Canadian bacon and pineapple. It’s said that way so you feel like you are in an exotic Hawaiian restaurant). One student exclaimed that the deep-dish cheese pizza was the best he’d ever had. Beware, though: the deep-dish pizzas are weird. The sauce is on the outside! The tomato sauce on the deep-dish is known to be chunky; for those of you who like thin, runny stuff, I think the thin crust isn’t as bad.

If you order a drink, get the cherry coke … talk about weird! In addition to having actual maraschino cherries, they use grenadine to flavor regular Coca-Cola, rather than serving the artificially flavored, regular cherry cokes you get at the gas station (Okay, so maybe you don’t get them at a gas station, but how am I supposed to know where you shop?)

The appetizers are filling, and I recommend ordering them as a group. The wings and garlic cheese bread were good, but avoid the mozzarella sticks and the spinach dip.

The background music was eighties, and although my group of friends were singing and dancing along joyfully, this kind of music might not please everyone-especially the people who had to hear me sing.

Although it has a somewhat expensive reputation, it is not too far off Café Mac prices. Interestingly enough, everyone I interviewed said it was worth the price. (That was only fourteen people but since everyone said it was worth it, doesn’t that give you an infinitely higher chance of liking it than not liking it?)

Overall, I asked the fourteen people to rate it on a scale of one to 10, one being the equivalent of eating your own foot, 10 being the best restaurant ever. The results were nine seven ratings, three eight ratings, and a six by someone who obviously ordered the mozzarella sticks.

Sometimes the pizzas take a little while to make, but it’s worth the wait. They also serve a lot of alcohol, but we’ll just assume that alcohol tastes like alcohol and leave it at that … I don’t want to support underage drinking, do I? So if you’re looking for a reasonably priced, excellent (or at least rated in the high sevens) pizza place, take a stroll down to the Green Mill.