<p>Just curious -- are the dining halls about the same quality? Do people have favorite places to eat on campus?</p>
<p>I’m an incoming freshman, but I’ve talked to a lot of outgoing freshman and upperclassmen about food on campus (I’m a huge food person)</p>
<p>The North Campus dining hall (where a lot of the upperclassmen stay) is apparently significantly better than the South Campus dining hall (where a majority of the high rises stay). They say there’s more to choose from at the NC diner and the food options are generally healthier.</p>
<p>I’ve been to UMD quite a bit, and I know that the Stamp has AWESOME food, I mean they have a Chick-Fil-A (: But I usually come out with cash, I’m not sure how exactly to pay for it with our meal plans and all.
And there’s a lot of food just outside campus on route one, like Chipotle and stuff like that.
Hope this helps (:</p>
<p>**high rises and underclassman stay</p>
<p>A few corrections … North campus is where the high rise dorms are located, not South campus. And the stuff in Stamp is standard “food court” fare. Nothing special … and they don’t take the standard meal plan. The most interesting place to eat at Stamp is the Co-op.</p>
<p>North campus and south campus diners are almost exactly the same. South campus has a make your own spaghetti thing with add ins at lunch and dinner, as well as omelettes made to order on the weekends at brunch. North campus diner has sprouts, which is all vegetarian fare, as well as a gourmet burger bar. It all tastes the same. Nothing to get excited over. north campus is definitely not better than south campus–they’re of comparable quality, it just depends on what you’re into. the food is good, but very similar and it’s gonna be the same thing day in and day out. most people are bored with it by spring semester.</p>
<p>Agreed about the co-op–everything else is fast food you’ve had before. Almost everything on route 1 is chain restaurants (chipotle, boston market, noodles and co), with the exception of places that do a lot of carryout like shanghai and panda, and bagel place. I love bagel place! that’s about it I guess…</p>
<p>idk idk south campus is awesome because it has the mongolian stir fry (it’s only during lunchtime though on the weekdays, as well as jalapeno something which makes gourmet mexican food, like a generic chipotle/qdoba). I honestly think that make your own pasta bar is really overrated. The sandwich/wraps are made to order and are pretty good, some (not all) of the staff in that line can be rather rude though. The annoying thing about SC is that after dinner it closes for two hours, while on north campus they stay open and head straight into late night dining. The food all around is pretty good but you do get sick of it eventually, which sucks because of the focus dates and you get a ton of points.</p>
<p>I hardly ever ate at the food court in stamp, not because I was uninterested or broke, but because I had too many points on my meal plan that needed to be spent at the diners. ps the taco bells at umd don’t have the “why pay more” menu :(</p>
<p>Try Mosaic just off campus. Amazing according to DS.</p>