<p>Hi all. Some comments on the food (off campus and on campus)? and i'm in the martha cook house, anyone know if the food is good?</p>
<p>Ah yes, I want to know too.</p>
<p>I've only read negative reviews though.</p>
<p>The University has decent/average food. Nothing special, but not bad either. Off campus offerings are good and plentiful. You have all sorts of restaurants (Arabic, Cafes, Breweries, Chinese, Deli, Ethiopian, French, Indian, Italian, Mexican, Pizza, Sportsbars, Steakhouses, etc...) serving good-decent food.</p>
<p>how about on-campus food? i've read in some reviews that on campus food "sucks". there are some halls with good food and some with bad food. the best is the south quad and the bursley hall... </p>
<p>hwo about martha cooK/ is it good? i can't stand bad food.. especialyl when the meals are 18 meals a week!!</p>
<p>The food is not usually "bad" and it does not "suck". However, it is very bland. I would describe the food as "average" relative to dorm food everywhere.</p>
<p>I ate at Bursley when I visited on Campus Day, and the food was really good. The tour guide said that they change the entrees up every so often too so that you don't get sick of it. I normally don't like eating but I had like three servings.</p>
<p>The food does suck overall. On some days its not bad, but the majority of days it's not great. Breakfast is usually good everyday, lunch is so-so, dinner sucks.</p>
<p>The food is alright. I think that Bursley, Markley, and SQ have the best food...SQ is always really crowded and noisy though so I don't really like eating there. The new Hill Dining Center should also be good when it opens. </p>
<p>Usually there are 3-4 hot entrees that change at every meal, a vegeterian entree bar that stays the same all day, a bar with hot side dishes, a sandwich bar, a salad bar, a cereal/yogurt/fruit bar, and a dessert bar. You should definitely be able to find something to eat even if you don't like the hot entrees for the day.</p>
<p>Markley always has warm fresh-baked cookies at lunch which definitely contributed to the freshman 15 for a lot of people. Bursley always has pizza which is nice, plus their retail dining location The Blue Apple is by far the best on campus, with deep dish pizza, gourmet subs, and smoothies.</p>
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<p>From what I understand, it's excellent. You don't fall into the same categories as the chumps in any of the other dorms, because you have your own cook(s) and they make real, actual, good food. As opposed to the industrial size, mass produced slop they serve pretty much everywhere else.</p>
<p>I was never a fan of dorm food, but the "off-campus" options are great. (I don't know if "off-campus" means outside the range of campus or if it just means outside the residence halls. I meant the latter.)</p>
<p>I lived in South Quad for two years. It might have the best food on central, whatever that means. I heard Stockwell and Bursley were RELATIVELY good as well.</p>
<p>I can't really comment on the dorm food (I had a meal plan for a week freshman year before I decided it just wasn't for me), but I've eaten at pretty much every restaurant in Ann Arbor and the surrounding area in the last 2 years. There's lots of variety and most of it's decent, but a bit on the expensive side.</p>
<p>I'm really excited about the Taco Bell they're putting in the union, though haha.</p>
<p>So from what I've read, SQ, Bursley, Markley and Cook House has pretty good food. Thanks guys.</p>
<p>And since most people also eat off campus, any recommendations of GOOD resturants? </p>
<p>I've read from some reviews that Pizza Place is good... </p>
<p>So, good eating places?</p>
<p>in my opinion,</p>
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<li>bursley
gap</li>
<li>south quad
big gap </li>
<li>markley</li>
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<p>the food doesn't suck, it's just that they rotate the same meal plan every 2-3 weeks, so you'll get sick of it by the end of your second semester, just like you will anywhere else. first time i had my meal at bursley i thought it was great, and ate a ton, but then after a term or 2...</p>
<p>Cornell food is supposed to be good, but you get sick of it after a few months as well. if you want to not get sick of dorm food, cook yourself, or just eat every other meal there.</p>
<p>And you don't have to worry about those other dorms, because like tetrahedr0n pointed out, you're not on a meal plan that enables you to eat at those dorms, nor should you worry...Martha Cook's food is one of the reasons people decide to live there =].</p>
<p>As for outside-of-cafeteria places, I think you're thinking of Pizza House, which is a block (?) away from Martha Cook. They also have great calamari and milkshakes, plus a great bar so you can get cherry syrup put into your coke (or at least, that's what I demand...and being a non-drinker, that's how I decide whether bars are good...). The great thing about Pizza House is that it's open till 4 am. There's another pizza restaurant that's good called Cottage Inn.
Za's is an Italian fast food place close to Martha Cook that's good.
Rendez-vous is another place close to Martha Cook that's open till 3 am. Sometimes I go there for tea/hot chocolate/coffee, other times I'll go there for an actual meal.</p>
<p>There are a lot of ethnic food in Ann Arbor. People who don't know any better will say China Gate is good, but it's very Americanized.
For Chinese restaurants, there's Asian Legend (it's very Taiwanese-influenced as has lots of the street vendor food you find in East Asia) and TK Wu (it's closer to downtown).
Sushi.com and Sadako are generic Japanese(-American) restaurants (Sadako is a little more expensive).
No Thai is a quick and good Thai restaurant, and its portions are large, so you can have enough leftovers for another meal.
There are several very good Indian restaurants in town, but I'm not going to attempt spelling out the names of them and getting them entirely wrong. If you're not familiar with Indian food, I would suggest dining with someone who knows Indian food when you go, because I know I would be lost going to one of those restaurants by myself.
There isn't real Mexican food in Ann Arbor. Of course, I come from Alabama, so maybe I'm very biased about that. There are, however, lots of very Americanized Mexican food places that some people like and other people don't. The most popular of these by far is BTB, which is good quick and cheap food and apparently good drunk food, too.</p>
<p>For generic American (/generic food, because what is American food anyway?) food, you have to try Blimpy Burger at least once to get change in half-dollar coins and $2 bills. (I really want a Blimpy Burger right now...) It's a little greasy, especially to people not used to eating fried chicken on a regular basis =P, but oh well.
Buffalo Wild Wings is pretty big. My friends and I used to (try to) go there every Tuesday to get 35 cent chicken wings, which they've apparently jacked up to 40 cents <em>shrug</em>. We (/I) eventually got a little sick of eating there every week.
I discovered Cosi’s at the end of this year and fell in love with it. It’s a great restaurant environment for people who love sitting in coffee shops. There are individual pizzas (closer to actual Italian-style pizza, I think…but really, not quite), salads, and soups, but a great drink selection (and by that, I mean coffees, juices, fancy juices, and tea).</p>
<p>If you want to get a taste of the more hippie-ish side of Ann Arbor, try the vegetarian restaurant, Seva. I personally didn’t like it, but nearly every girl I know loves it. They do have a good fresh juice selection (yes, I know, I’m obsessed with drinking in the non-alcoholic way).
Oh wait, and Zingerman’s in Kerrytown, which everyone loves (besides dilksy, who took me there once and watched me eat…).</p>
<p>Main Street is where all the fine dining is. My boyfriend’s cheap, so the fanciest place we’ve been to on Main Street is Mongolian Barbeque, which is a place where you pile on frozen stuff into a bowl and they cook it for you. There are several reputably good steak places that I haven’t dished out $60+ for on Main Street. I’ve been to Seafood & Company, which is absolutely amazing and a bit cheaper (by that I mean $30-60). I’ve also been to the seafood place beside Seafood & Company, which is $15-30 a plate. The Chinese restaurant, Middle Kingdom, is good, but not worth paying $15 extra for when you can just go to another Chinese restaurant. Much of what you pay for on Main Street is the ritzy and pretentious atmosphere.</p>
<p>Yeah…I love food in Ann Arbor. There’s a good variety. What’s better is the coffee shops (yes, here I go about my love for “drinking” again). I try not to go to Starbucks in Ann Arbor unless I really want a Frapaccino because Starbucks is the typical coffee shop anywhere. In Ann Arbor, you can experience the variety of coffee shops that encompass all of Ann Arbor, from the really ritzy ones near Main Street, the fair trade coffee ones near Kerry town. I’ve always wanted to go to the Crazy Wisdom tea room on Main Street where they apparently have poetry readings and s</p>
<p>It's sushi.come, not sushi.com. Also, keep in mind that Cottage Inn is both a restaurant and a pizza chain (like Pizza Hut, Dominos, etc...a little pricier, but IMO much better). The pizza chain originated from the restaurant in downtown, but they've been separate companies for a while (though the original restaurant kept their naming rights).</p>
<p>It's also good to know about quick convenient places to grab a bite to eat, since you don't always have lots of time between class. Jimmy Johns has subs (and leftover bread from the previous day for 50cents, if you're ever real low on money), and has about 4 locations on Central Campus (Packard and Hill, State and William, South U and Church, and Ann St.). There's a couple places that you can get pizza by the slice (Diag Party store and NYPD on the northwest end of campus, NYPD/Backroom/In n Out to the southeast). As previously mentioned, BTB (formerly Big Ten Burrito, but the Big Ten Athletic conference complained) has locations on State inbetween Hill and Packard, and a new location at South U and Church St, and is a good place to get a burrito/quesadilla pretty much any time of the day. In the basement of the union, you have a Wendy's, Subway, Villa Pizza (pizza and some other italian stuff), and Panda Express (low grade asian food). In the Michigan League, there's also a Wendy's, some expensive pizza place, and starting next fall a Taco Bell. Panchero's is another generic mexican restaurant off of South U, but IMO is overpriced and inferior compared to BTB.</p>
<p>Nobody mentioned Zingerman? Delicious sandwitches. Palio's has decent Italian food. Sitting on the roof in late Spring, summer and early Fall is awesome. The Prickly Pear isn't bad either. Grizzly Peak is nice too. </p>
<p>Ann Arbor does not have any restaurants that will earn Michelin stars anytime soon, but it has many decent restaurants.</p>
<p>WOW.</p>
<p>that's all i can say for now... thanks for christine123, ... for writing up an essay about the food in MIchigan U! Michigan now surely isn't in lack of food. And i'm sure i can find the food i like given there are so many resturants and palces to eat around the campus. </p>
<p>Last year i went on a campus tour to UMichigan and ate at the place Cosi, to be honest, i really didn't like the stuff there. the sandwiches are TOO hard... i just didnt' quite enjoy it. that left pretty bad impressions for me about food in U of MIchigan.</p>
<p>But now, i am slightly on the positive side!</p>
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<p>Unfair. China Gate is good - Americanized or not. The authenticity of the food doesn't correlate to its taste. Chef Jan would be disappointed in you</p>
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Last year i went on a campus tour to UMichigan and ate at the place Cosi, to be honest, i really didn't like the stuff there. the sandwiches are TOO hard... i just didnt' quite enjoy it. that left pretty bad impressions for me about food in U of MIchigan.
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<p>Cosi is a national chain. You shouldn't judge Ann Arbor's food based on that - it's like eating at the Wendy's and saying that because their burgers are bad, food in Ann Arbor must be bad. Try out the more unique places first.</p>
<p>No. China Gate sucks. I don't understand why people like it. What makes it better than any other Americanized Chinese restaurant? I honestly think it's one of the worse ones I've eaten at. That being said, it's a convenient place to get soup and an egg roll to go.</p>