When I’m out of food an feeling lazy, I walk four steps to the phone to order a pizza or chinese. That’s what happened tonight, in fact.
Barring that, I’m about a block away from a supermarket. I describe my apartment as “three blocks from everything”. For those who know Vancouver, I’m two blocks from Davie, two blocks from Robson, and three blocks from Granville. I love it.
Hm. As tempting as turning one of my neighbor’s dogs into adobo would be, my quest for food would be a bit further away than that.
Depending on time of day, there is a Wendy’s and a Vietnamese place about a mile and a half or so away, so a good 20 minute walk. But at least there’s a sidewalk and it’s a straight shot. Unless I need to lug supplies back, it really isn’t worth starting up the car over.
If it’s late, I’ll have to trek a bit further (2-something miles) to the nearest grocery store, gas station with a mini-mart, and 24-hour Denny’s and look longingly at the closed fast-food and restaurants along the way.
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The grocer’s below is open until 10pm. Getting food at 3am would be more complicated.
I live in a VERY ghetto area of town, just off my university campus. There is a convenience store on campus open till midnight that is less than a quarter mile away, but after dark it is definately something you drive to.
After midnight? There are a couple of diners and grocery stores, but they are about 3-4 miles away, driving, because of the need to backtrack with the crazy freeways around town.
The nearest dépanneur is 124 metres away, the nearest restaurant 223 metres away, the nearest supermarket 493 metres away, and an all-night Tim Horton’s is 780 metres away. So when at home, barring disaster or indigence, I’m always within 780 metres of something to eat.
If it is daytime, I’m about a 10-minute walk from a restaurant, maybe 12 minutes from the grocery. Night is a little different. I’d say about 15-20 minute walk to the 24 hour store. Not too shabby…
Brendon
There’s a deli about four doors down - they close at eight. The covenience store two blocks away closes at eleven. The Italian bar/restaurant is across the street and closes at one (but I don’t know how late their kitchen stays open). For twenty four hour food, I’d have to walk ten or twelve blocks to downtown where there’s a diner and several convenience stores open around the clock.
I choose my residences such that they are situated a walk away from food. In fact, I haven’t lived further than a 10-minute walk to some sort of food shop since I was 9 years old.
I now live ten minutes’ walk from downtown. My neighbourhood has hotels, grocery stores and restaurants nearby as well. Mind you, if the actual disaster (earthquake) comes, most of them will be in the harbour so I do have a collection of supplies.
Closest to me (5 minute walk) is a burger shack called Fat Mo’s, but there’s no place to sit so I have to walk back home, thus doubling the trip - so is it really the closest? But just beyond that is a convenience store, two drug stores, McDonalds, Krystal, Kroger, a Greek place, a Mexican place and a Chinese place (none of which are really authentic). In the other direction from home and a little further (about a mile), there’s Mediterranean, “California Mission Style” burritos, Carribean food, a Subway, Applebees, and a coffee shop.
One mile, downhill. But I have friends within 2 blocks. Plus venison snoozing in my yard.
I’ve never even tried to count the number of bars, cafes or restaurants within a one-block radius from my apartment. I’d say there must be around 25-30 different places. (Bleecker St, in case anyone was wondering.)
It would be about 400m to the nearest shops. Five or six minutes’ walk at most.
Dang, I thought this was going to be a thread about self-cannibalism. I’m pretty disappointed.
Ten or fifteen minutes walking gets me to gas stations/minimarts, a Chinese restaurant(they deliver too, does that count?), pizza, Mexican, and a great bar.
If I cross the railroad tracks, there’s a 24 hour McDonald’s, a Wendy’s and other assorted fast food. I usually drive if I’m going that way. Memphis drivers are stupid, and that intersection seems to such any lingering live brain cells from their head. I like having the car’s protection, thank you very much.
A maximum of five minutes walking will get me to a choice of pizza, Chinese, Indian, fish & chips, kebabs or two local supermarkets. Of those, it’s usually the Chinese that I go to in preference to the rest because their stuff is nicer and better quality than all the other places. Mostly though, there’s never a time when there’s absolutely no food in the house.
I live across the street from a chinese resturaunt and a chip shop (where I have run in for a chocolate bar in desperate times). But I’d be more likely to head over to the corner store down the street or the tesco, which is about 5 minutes away. I love living in walkable cities.
If I were home, there’d be a pretty good family restaurant just across the street. Oh, and the little caesar’s takeout place next to it.
Here at work, it’s a short walk to the Wendy’s. When it opens.
It’s about 50 yards to the front security gate. Up the street about 100 yards on my side are a Lebanese takeaway with mini supermarket stuff, fruit and veges. Next to it is a pizza place. Another 100 yards is the pub on the corner. Across from the pub is a chicken shop and a Subway. Back down that side about 50 yards past my place is an Indian restaurant, a hamburger joint and another takeaway come mini supermarket with fruit and vege and deli stuff.
I’m about a half mile from a White Hen Pantry and a pizza joint.
Less than a quarter mile to 2 different Chinese Restaurants–one buffet, one not (and due to the fact that one is in a strip mall and one used to be a atand alone all-American all you can eat place, they are farther from each other than their distance from my apartment makes them sound). Within a half mile, there’s a couple of gas station convenience stores. Within a half mile the other direction there’s a Subway, a drugstore with some food selections, and a pizza place. Oh, and an Indian restaurant.