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Western University is known as Canada’s “party school”
so nightlife is a prominent part of living in London. As
all of the bars in London are student-focused they are
pretty cheap, with one bar doing ‘Dollar Beers’ on a
Monday, always a popular choice. For the few months
of the year when London gets warm enough, there are
many patio bars or bars with balconies to enjoy the
weather over $6 mojitos. The bars in London are unlike
anything I’ve experienced before, with most of them
being ‘sports bars’ showing various games during the
day, with these TV’s continuing to play late into the
night when the partygoers arrive and even then food
is still served. They have masses of seats and a separate
dance floor, very different from the large clubs found in
most student cities in England. A strange thing about
bars in London, and Ontario generally, is that they all
stop serving at 2am, one of the many strict drinking
laws enforced in Ontario.
The nightlife is not just confined to bars in London
however, with house parties taking place every
weekend. These house parties are taken to the
extreme, with full DJ equipment and houses brimming
with students. These huge parties are partly due to
most first year students not being able to legally drink
with Ontario’s drinking age being 19, but also due to
the large Greek Life at Western. Although not hugely
popular throughout the rest of Canada, Western
has a thriving Greek Life which contributes to the
party reputation Western has as fraternities through
notoriously crazy parties.
NIGHTLIFE
When you think about Canadian food the thing that first
comes to mind is maple syrup, right? And while maple
syrup is definitely one of the most delicious things I
ate there, Canada has much more to offer in terms of
food than just syrup. For example, Poutine, which is
a Canadian delicacy made of fries, cheese curds and
gravy. Although it sounds strange, I can promise you
Poutine is the greatest thing you will eat in Canada,
with restaurants all over the country offering inventive
variations such as chicken Shawarma poutine, pizza
poutine and Mexican chilli poutine. Canada is also
known for its multiculturalism, meaning wherever you
visit there will be many ethnic food restaurants to visit.
One of my favourite restaurants in London was the
Mongolian Grill, where you could get unlimited stir fry
from a Subway-style counter, so you got to pick all the
ingredients and sauce before watching your food get
cooked on a huge grill plate.
I can’t talk about food in Canada without mentioning
my favourite place on earth, Tim Hortons. ‘Timmies’ is
a Canadian national treasure found in almost every
town across Canada (there are six on Western’s campus
alone). Tim Hortons is a coffee shop serving huge cups
of hot and cold coffee for insanely cheap prices. They
also do delicious donuts and ‘timbits’ (or donut holes)
in a wide variety of flavours, but I’ll tell you now salted
caramel timbits are the best. They also do delicious
bagels and potato wedges so, to sum up, Timmies has
everything you could ever need, and no trip to Canada
is complete without visiting one.
FOOD
iStudy
2019/20
Western University is known as Canada’s “party school”
so nightlife is a prominent part of living in London. As
all of the bars in London are student-focused they are
pretty cheap, with one bar doing ‘Dollar Beers’ on a
Monday, always a popular choice. For the few months
of the year when London gets warm enough, there are
many patio bars or bars with balconies to enjoy the
weather over $6 mojitos. The bars in London are unlike
anything I’ve experienced before, with most of them
being ‘sports bars’ showing various games during the
day, with these TV’s continuing to play late into the
night when the partygoers arrive and even then food
is still served. They have masses of seats and a separate
dance floor, very different from the large clubs found in
most student cities in England. A strange thing about
bars in London, and Ontario generally, is that they all
stop serving at 2am, one of the many strict drinking
laws enforced in Ontario.
The nightlife is not just confined to bars in London
however, with house parties taking place every
weekend. These house parties are taken to the
extreme, with full DJ equipment and houses brimming
with students. These huge parties are partly due to
most first year students not being able to legally drink
with Ontario’s drinking age being 19, but also due to
the large Greek Life at Western. Although not hugely
popular throughout the rest of Canada, Western
has a thriving Greek Life which contributes to the
party reputation Western has as fraternities through
notoriously crazy parties.
NIGHTLIFE
When you think about Canadian food the thing that first
comes to mind is maple syrup, right? And while maple
syrup is definitely one of the most delicious things I
ate there, Canada has much more to offer in terms of
food than just syrup. For example, Poutine, which is
a Canadian delicacy made of fries, cheese curds and
gravy. Although it sounds strange, I can promise you
Poutine is the greatest thing you will eat in Canada,
with restaurants all over the country offering inventive
variations such as chicken Shawarma poutine, pizza
poutine and Mexican chilli poutine. Canada is also
known for its multiculturalism, meaning wherever you
visit there will be many ethnic food restaurants to visit.
One of my favourite restaurants in London was the
Mongolian Grill, where you could get unlimited stir fry
from a Subway-style counter, so you got to pick all the
ingredients and sauce before watching your food get
cooked on a huge grill plate.
I can’t talk about food in Canada without mentioning
my favourite place on earth, Tim Hortons. ‘Timmies’ is
a Canadian national treasure found in almost every
town across Canada (there are six on Western’s campus
alone). Tim Hortons is a coffee shop serving huge cups
of hot and cold coffee for insanely cheap prices. They
also do delicious donuts and ‘timbits’ (or donut holes)
in a wide variety of flavours, but I’ll tell you now salted
caramel timbits are the best. They also do delicious
bagels and potato wedges so, to sum up, Timmies has
everything you could ever need, and no trip to Canada
is complete without visiting one.
FOOD
