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Chick-fil-A grand opening celebration at El Paso Natural Gas Conference Center.

UTEP welcomes a new full-service Chick-fil-A on campus

Claudia Hernandez, Photographer January 23, 2019

UTEP Dining Services announced the addition of a full-service Chick-fil-A restaurant Inside the El Paso Natural Gas Conference Center. The grand opening ceremony took place at the new restaurant at noon on Wednesday, Jan. 23. This new location will...

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Shootin’ The S#!T w/ Big Boy & The Bear: Episode Three

Shootin’ The S#!T w/ Big Boy & The Bear: Episode Three

Jason Green, Contributor June 5, 2018

https://soundcloud.com/user-479248766/bigboyandthebear-episode-3-drew-bonney-mixdown The Hosts: Senior multimedia majors Javier Cortez and Jason Green. The Episode: Big Boy (Cortez) and The Bear (Green), are joined by UTEP Associate Media Relations...

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Shootin’ The S#!T w/ Big Boy & The Bear: Episode Two

Shootin’ The S#!T w/ Big Boy & The Bear: Episode Two

Jason Green, Contributor May 29, 2018

https://soundcloud.com/user-479248766/shootin-the-st-w-big-boy-and-the-bear-episode-2-jonbalaya   The Hosts: Senior multimedia majors Javier Cortez and Jason Green. The Episode: Big Boy (Cortez) and The Bear (Green), talk about the NHL and...

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Shootin The S#!T w/ Big Boy & The Bear: Episode One

Shootin’ The S#!T w/ Big Boy & The Bear: Episode One

Jason Green, Contributor May 21, 2018

https://soundcloud.com/user-479248766/shootin-the-st-w-big-boy-the-bear-a-sports-and-food-podcast-episode-1 The Hosts: Senior multimedia majors Javier Cortez and Jason Green. The Episode: Big Boy (Cortez) and The Bear (Green), talk about the El...

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Poke³ offers a variety of raw fish salads that can be customized for your health needs.

Poke³: A healthier option for college students near campus

Aylin Tafoya, Contributor April 9, 2018

A little piece of Hawaii has come to El Paso. On Tuesday, March 6, Poke³ had their soft opening at the corner of Glory Road and N. Mesa Street. Restaurant owners Humberto Enriquez and Vicente Santaella developed the idea after closely watching the...

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Fahrenheit 180 offers a variety of drinks that include the popular charcoal latte, among other products.

Fahrenheit 180 offers café destination near campus

Claudia Flores, Entertainment Editor February 26, 2018

Fahrenheit 180 is one of the newest places in town that offers more than just your typical cup of coffee and is located right across from the Don Haskins Center. “My friend runs Fahrenheit 32 (ice cream shop), and what he does is that he tries to...

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El Cuartito: A Japanese favorite with a Mexican twist

El Cuartito: A Japanese favorite with a Mexican twist

Claudia Flores, Entertainment Editor February 26, 2018

Ever since Malolam opened its doors four years ago, restaurateurs Octavio Gomez, Rudy Valdes and Nick Salgado held on the idea of opening a ramen shop with a Mexican approach. “(El Cuartito) was one of the original concepts, but we were looking for...

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The best international restaurants to visit in El Paso

The best international restaurants to visit in El Paso

Jason Green, Contributor November 13, 2017

One of the best things about living in a city the size of El Paso is the plethora of food options. Of course, we all know that El Paso claims to be the “Mexican food capital of the world,” which has always made me wonder why any place in Mexico wouldn’t...

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Kaedama is crowdsourcing the opening of their first location through Kickstarter.

Kaedama looks to expand on ramen success story

Elenie Gonzalez, Staff Reporter October 16, 2017

It’s 6:30 p.m. on a Saturday night and multiple cars begin pulling into an empty parking lot across the street from the Monarch and Prickly Elder bars on Rio Grande Avenue just off Mesa Street–except people are not going to the bars. Instead, they...

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Ice Creamed Myself provides vegan and dairy treats to the community

Brianna Chavez, Contributor October 2, 2017

Almost everyone has screamed for ice cream at some point in their lives. Dominque “Dom” Airington and Alejandra “AJ” Zorrivas love ice cream so much that they traded their graduation trip for a $1,000 ice cream machine and created Ice Creamed...

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Kicha Foods expands on chorizo family tradition

Kicha Foods expands on chorizo family tradition

Adrian Broaddus, Editor-In-Chief June 13, 2017

In a calm, humble storage unit at Montecillo lives one of El Paso’s newest and most unique food creations.  The Villanueva brothers, Sergio, who is a UTEP alumnus with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry, and Jaime, a senior pre-nursing major, opened...

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Café Istanbul is located at 3501 Sun Bowl Drive and open daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Café Istanbul offers the freshest Mediterranean food in town

Jason Green, Sports Editor April 25, 2017

The new restaurant at 3501 Sun Bowl Drive, behind the empty Krispy Kreme building, is more than just an outstanding place to get Mediterranean food at a great price; it is the culmination of one man’s life’s work, his drive to succeed and if need...

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