By: Meritte Dahl

Kerianne Steucke and about 10 of her friends ate at Applebee’s, Dairy Queen, Kitty Corner Café, Dino’s Gyros and Raising Cane’s all in under three hours Thursday evening.

University of Minnesota students and community members sampled food and beer as part of the Taste of Stadium Village.

Some of the restaurants in the neighborhood offered $1 food items and some of the bars offered $2 pints of beer during the six-hour event.

Steucke, a biomedical engineering graduate student, said she and her friends were planning on staying for the beer special as well.

The event was the first of its kind for the neighborhood, said organizer Chris Ferguson.

Ferguson owns the Stadium Village Dairy Queen and Bywater Business Solutions, which created the event.

Some of the businesses had lines out the door, including Dairy Queen, which sold over 500 food items during the event, Ferguson said.

Francis Chang said he and five of his friends had tried the $1 waffles and chicken tenders in the neighborhood.

“It’s good to sample places you haven’t been to,” the biomedical engineering freshman said.

Check out Monday’s edition of the Minnesota Daily for the full story.