Quincyites To Get Up in Their Grille

Midnight munchers, you may rejoice. After a year of inactivity due to faulty infrastructure, the Quincy Grille will be up and runing again, starting this Saturday night.

The culprit—a grease-clogged vent—was repaired over the summer, and after passing a sanitation inspection yesterday, the Grille has now officially been deemed both safe and sanitary.

While the Grille will still be recognisable to those who remember it, this year’s managers, Ben J. Conlee ’07 and Adam P. Schneider ’07, have a few changes up their sleeves.

Prices will be lowered on some items, such as the popular mozarella sticks, which will go for $3.50 instead of $4.

The managers are also working with the Quincy HoCo to install a speaker system and plan “to have a nice, new laminated menu,” said Conlee.

Though the menu may look different, it will still offer the same fail-safe favorites, such as chicken fingers, hamburgers, and the Grille’s famous oversize, fresh baked cookies.

“It’s a cookie the size of a plate...and it’s warm and gooey,” said Stephanie T. Chevalier ’07.

But the Grille managers are open to expanding their menu, in response to student demand. Their first experiment is set to be ice cream sandwiches.

“We’re hoping that the state of Quincy Grille will be better than it was two years ago when it was in its heyday,” Conlee said.

Most who remember the Grille are thrilled for its reincarnation.

“It really fostered the late night community here,” said Chevalier.

And the Quincy Grille’s popularity extends beyond the House’s residents.

“Quincy Grille is obviously the most reputed grille of them all,” said former Kirkland Grille manager Ashwin Kaja ’07. “A lot of people from different Houses go there.”

“When other food locations would close, the Quincy Grille would be open,”

said Mather House resident Teddy L. Styles ‘07.

Even acting Quincy House co-master Lee Gehrke, who just moved into Quincy this September, has heard tell of the Grille’s glory.

“We know that the Grille’s been a very important element in the life of the House,” he said.

Quincy’s grille is not the only one that will be smoking this year. Dunster, Kirkland and Pforzheimer have their own.

Though Kaja said that he doesn’t think there is much competition between the grilles, he did, while chuckling, disclose his membership in the “Enemies of Quincy Grille” facebook group. The group’s other two members are this year’s Kirkland grille managers.

—Staff writer Nina L. Vizcarrondo can be reached at nvizcarr@fas.harvard.edu.