For my Explore Columbus assignment, my peer group and I decided to go to Northstar, a trendy restaurant in the Short North which has a few other locations throughout the city. Everyone in my peer group is from the Columbus area, so we are pretty familiar with the area, so we used the opportunity to just catch up with each other and take a break from homework to do something fun. My favorite part about the experience overall was getting food outside the monotony of campus dining (the Northstar veggie burger is a tried and true classic and delicious!). On the COTA bus journey to the Short North we got caught up talking and missed the stop closest to the restaurant, so we got to walk around the area a bit to discover more shops and restaurants that we could go to next time. I discovered the Short North is not as far as it seems, and shortly after my Northstar experience, my roommate and I actually walked there to burn off the calories we were going to eat with all the good food there is to offer there!