<p>Are there some dining halls on campus that are better than others? Do some serve more options than others? If so, what are the best ones?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>North Quad is by far the best, and Mojo is a tier below that. That’s the general consensus among the student body.</p>
<p>Baits, Markley, and East Quad can be lumped together in a sort of middle of the pack position, though East Quad may be better next year after the building being renovated.</p>
<p>South Quad and West Quad really aren’t that great at all. Any other dining halls I’m not sure about.</p>
<p>Other than North Quad, they all offer about the same number of options to choose from. North Quad has a smaller selection but all of the food is much higher quality than in the other halls.</p>
<p>From best to worst</p>
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<li>North Quad: has the best quality but has limited options. For lunch they usually only have some variety of chicken/fish on a bun, pizza, and a stir-fry of some sort. Emphasis on international cuisine. They offer vegetarian versions of everything too.</li>
</ol>
<p>2.Mojo: good variety and good quality too. A lot of homestyle food and different varieties of pizza. Chinese food is usually offered daily, but it’s not too great. </p>
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<li><p>Bursley: good variety but sucky quality. </p></li>
<li><p>West Quad: usually pretty good. There is burrito bar daily which is decent</p></li>
<li><p>Markley: All I know is they have a make-your-own pizza</p></li>
<li><p>South Quad: good variety but bad quality</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Thank you for the replies. This is very helpful information for a prospective student!</p>
<p>Can students eat in any dining hall, or do they have to eat in their own area- ie. could someone living in the South Quad dorms eat in the North Quad dining hall? Are the North and South Quads far apart?</p>
<p>Students can eat in any dining hall on campus. There’s some rule about Helen Newberry and Betsy Barbour in that you must be a guest of one of the residents in order to eat there or something, I don’t know exactly what it is. But it’s okay because no one I know has ever had any inclination to eat there. As a general rule, you can eat at any dining hall. North Quad and South Quad are about a 10-12 minute walk apart. The furthest apart dorms are Markley and South & West Quads, it’s probably about a 20 minute walk. Alice Lloyd and Oxford are also quite far away from South/West as well, probably in the same 20 minute range. Those are the longest walks you’ll ever have to make on Central Campus.</p>
<p>^Your times are wrong in a lot of cases, unless you just walk really slow.</p>
<p>NQ to SQ is 7-10 minutes
Markley to SQ is 15 minutes, and there’s a bus that get’s you there in 10
SQ to Oxford would be around 15 min
Alice Lloyd from SQ is closer than Markley</p>
<p>Ranking wise bluedevilsfan nailed it, though I would say Markley is a lot better then it’s reputation, and agree South Quad is absolutely disgusting on a comparative level.</p>
<p>The longest walks you will EVER make for dining hall food are from SQ to NQ (7-10 min), maybe NQ/SQ to Mojo (7-10 min), and Markley/Couzens to Mojo (2 min). No one walks to Oxford for anything besides the frats.</p>
<p>For class on the other hand, the longest would be going from Couzens to the B-school or Oxford to the MLB, both of which would be 20 minutes. Just by comparison getting to anything on North Campus is at least 20 minutes from any Central Campus dorm and vice versa.</p>
<p>Overall it’s not a HUGE campus, but it is big. Usually though because the campus is so pretty (and flat) you won’t really mind the walk, unless it’s raining. For any of the longer distances there is a bus route available (Commuter South from Markley and Couzens, Oxford shuttle from Oxford), so that is always an option.</p>
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<p>I live in Barbour and I’ve never heard of this rule (Newberry doesn’t have a dining hall). For the record, Barbour’s food is shipped over from West Quad and reheated, and it’s not very good. I have found mud in the Barbour salad bar multiple times. I haven’t eaten at West Quad enough to be able to tell if the food is just that bad or if the reheating is what does it in. South Quad is pretty awful and the dining room is horrendously crowded. That’s a bit of a moot point for incoming freshmen, since Barbour/South Quad/West Quad are going to be replaced with a MoJo-type dining center in the next few years. </p>
<p>I actually like East Quad and North Quad, though both suffer from being way too small. MoJo is pretty good, too, and that’s where I usually go.</p>