Best campus food

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My kid is at St Mary’s College of Maryland and they say the food is really good! We’ve eaten in the dining hall and enjoyed it too.

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They now sell a lot of Bucees items at Texas A&M. Game over. They win.

[Anonymous]

I have 2 kids at UMD and both love the food. In one of the dining halls you can get Maryland Dairy, the ice cream they make and sell in the student center. My freshman will go in just for ice cream some nights.

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Anonymous wrote:How's the food at smaller liberal arts colleges that don't have a large enough student body to justify 3 million different food options?

DH and I both went to larger schools with tons of choices (multiple cafeterias, delis, fast food, and even sit-down restaurants) and availability. It was easy to grab food on off hours, pretty much anywhere on campus.

How does that work at schools with 2,000 students?

Could be the food is better because they can focus on smaller quantities over mass production with 2,000 instead of 40,000.

[Anonymous]

Mount Holyoke!

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[Anonymous]

the athletes dining hall at Tennessee is fantastic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How's the food at smaller liberal arts colleges that don't have a large enough student body to justify 3 million different food options?

DH and I both went to larger schools with tons of choices (multiple cafeterias, delis, fast food, and even sit-down restaurants) and availability. It was easy to grab food on off hours, pretty much anywhere on campus.

How does that work at schools with 2,000 students?

Thanks to a new dining manager, Amherst College has upped its dining game in the past year. I think the college was sick of the kids complaining and trying to get into the UMass dining hall. They are also prepping for the swanky new dining hall and student center opening next year. Good variety, and some food sourced locally (in addition to produce, ice cream, milk, coffee, bagels from local shops/creameries). My kid loves the food and is (his words) eating better than he has his whole life. However, certainly can't compare with the range of offerings you describe. It's small: 1 dining hall offering a few entrees, pizza, pasta, and salad bar, with 2 small cafes, plus a grab 'n' go option on class days. But I attended a HYPSM, the food was dreadful, and I had nothing like the range you describe either. It's also a 10-minute walk to town, where there are lots of eateries. Pizza, Mexican, Tibetan and Chinese are popular takeout spots.

My Amherst student would disagree. This year started off well but after the first two weeks it was back to the usual slop.

[Anonymous]

Ate at a UMASS dining hall when touring a couple of years ago. We found the food lived up to the hype!

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Anonymous wrote:I have 2 kids at UMD and both love the food. In one of the dining halls you can get Maryland Dairy, the ice cream they make and sell in the student center. My freshman will go in just for ice cream some nights.

DS loves the food at UMD. He has an apartment and knows how to cook but still eats there by choice.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is at St Mary’s College of Maryland and they say the food is really good! We’ve eaten in the dining hall and enjoyed it too.

I attended St Mary’s my freshman year of college and the food was awful. Not only the quality but the lack of food selection. I’m glad that’s no longer the case! It’s a really nice school.

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Anonymous wrote:VT food was good and they really sold that. However, dining plans are priced super confusing and we kept having to add money. I don’t think it was that much better than my other kids colleges given the price difference.

Yep (another Hokie parent who just added more money...DD started taking the bus to Kroger for veggies/fruit...cheaper strategy).

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Cornell

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I really didn't like the food at Amherst. It was so little variety and repetitive - baked scrod, hamburger casserole. There was a particular soup that after a few days of serving it as leftovers, you could turn your bowl upside down and it wouldn't fall out. To this day I can't eat chicken marsala anymore.

I ate a lot of cereal and pizza. Their desserts were decent though.

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Toured Purdue a few years back, food was great.