(Gate risotto probably won't come on such a fancy plate...)

Culinary Manager Aaron Fitzsenry is serving up fresh risotto at the Gate tonight! Get it while it lasts…

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Get your alternative folk on with a slice of pizza and a Chobani. Play Edward Sharpe!

Yes, there will be accordion.

Andy Suzuki ’09 and his band, The Method, are playing a “secret show” at the Gate. It’s completely free and happening right now (it began at 7:30). C’mon, take a study break. You know you want to.

Photo by Emily Gilbert / Herald

Are you following the Gate and the Blue Room on Twitter? You get to learn all sorts of crazy VIP information like new Gate hours and the number of muffins left at the Blue Room (earlier today there were a “bajillion!”).

So, yeah, weekend brunch at the Gate. Though this may only be relevant to a) the students who live on Pembroke and b) those of us who actually wake up before two on the weekends.

If you’ve been missing your paninis and that “free” pizza your parents already paid for, then you’ll certainly be excited for today’s reopening of The Gate.

Back in 1947, when The Gate first opened, Pembroke students were excited, too. Unlike the Blue Room, which they could only enter when accompanied by a male escort,  The Gate provided a place for the females of College Hill to lunch freely.  Brown men were allowed in, too, but only if accompanied by a Pembroke student, according to the Encyclopedia Brunoniana.

And there were actually gates! White picket fences, which you can make out in the background of this picture. According an Evening Bulletin article describing the new eatery, The Gate also featured “many cozy nooks with leather-upholstered wicker furniture in lime, yellow and deep green.” Way too charming.

After the jump, a picture of the 1947 snack bar with era-appropriate glass bottles of soda, as well as pricing from the 1979 Gate menu. [Read more →]

The Gate will re-open this Friday after being closed since Feb. 5 due to a broken steam pipe, according to Gate Unit Manager Kara Segal ’10. See tomorrow’s Herald for the full story.