"It’s not often we can enthusiastically recommend a restaurant for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But Roux, a counter-service New Orleans-inspired spot in Hyde Park, is a great choice for all three meals. The restaurant is large, bright, and ideal for politely listening to that person you recently ran into from your undergrad study abroad program explain their UChicago research over beignets, fluffy biscuits and gravy, or shrimp and creamy grits. The entire menu is available all day, and there’s a pastry case up front full of great baked goods, like a gigantic cinnamon roll where each bite somehow tastes like the gooey center—which everyone knows is the best part." - adrian kane, john ringor