Dining in Residential Colleges

Colleges & Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>Can visitors eat at the dining rooms in the res. colleges?</p>

<p>We have a gap of a couple of hrs to grab lunch between the gen tour and SEAS tour next week. If our student wants to check out the dining plan/food, where is the best place to do that for lunch...keeping in mind 38 Hillhouse (admissions local)</p>

<p>and would that be too weird.. a student (and parent in tow)
...we don't know anyone in particular so its not like our student can just meet up as a guest of another student...</p>

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<p>Why not eat in the Commons? It gave my son a great “feel” for the student body when we visited.</p>

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<p>Is the Commons off Grove–? In the Yale web-site the Commons (SOM) makes me think that is up at the SOM near Sachem…</p>

<p>I was surfing the dining tabs in the website and can’t tell which “commons” this is…based on the map and SOM detail…</p>

<p>Does that mean the res-colleges do not have pros students eating there?</p>

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<p>It’s on Grove. I don’t know whether prospective students can arrange to eat in one of the College dining halls. It’s not something we explored. I imagine Admissions could give you a quick answer.</p>

<p>[What</a> we offer, Dining: Yale University](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/dining/locations/dininghalls.html]What”>http://www.yale.edu/dining/locations/dininghalls.html)</p>

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<p>I would suggest Commons, unless you meet a student who would take you to one of the colleges. It’s pretty impressive, and freshmen generally eat there pretty often. You also don’t have to gain entrance to a residential college courtyard to go there, and you can check out the Woolsey Hall rotunda, and maybe the Beinecke library while you are there.
I think you can just walk in and pay cash, but I’m not sure of that.</p>

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<p>Thanks.
This clears up some confusion re the dining web site tabs…</p>