<p>The food is pretty good. Some nights i’m a little disappointed, but it’s not that often. It’s much better than i expected college food to be. I’m a vegetarian, and they always have options.</p>
<p>My college does a lot of special days, which is very nice. This year we’ve had a middle eastern day, a gazpacho bar, a carnival style popcorn/cotton candy machine, a make your own cookie bar, a halloween dinner, formal dinners for each of the classes, a donut bar, special brunches, a midnight luau, etc.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that it’s all relative to the food at other universities. My D is a transfer to Y and says that the food is much better than at her old school. She wouldn’t rate it as great, but definitely better quality and variety. Her one beef is that dining hours are fairly short.</p>
<p>Yeah. Dining hours bug the hell out of me here!</p>
<p>The college dining halls are only open for a 2 hour window for lunch and dinner. It can be really frustrating when you don’t want to eat at 5pm or have class around noon.</p>
<p>I thought the food was excellent. Much better than at H or P. I ate at Davenport and they had a lot of very diverse options that all looked and tasted great.</p>
<p>To me, food is a pretty important factor in choosing a college. Four years of eating crappy high school food is more than enough for me. I want some <em>real</em> food!</p>
<p>Agreed on dining hall hours (main downside to Yale food services), although I think they’re trying to change them due to complaints. I don’t mind the weekend hours (I like late brunch on weekends); I mind mainly just that dinner closes at 7.</p>
<p>Food is very good imo. Google it, but Alice Waters – renown world class chef – helped launched a Yale food program a few years ago and she designed the Yale program and menu. Obviously it is not the best food I’ve ever had, but it is quite quite good and I certainly don’t find myself wanting home cooking often. As far as college food goes, it is the best I’ve had but I think Dartmouth or some of those other colleges in the middle of nowhere might also have good food.</p>
<p>Yale dining does fun stuff to spice things up also and the people who work there are generally very nice (I don’t like this one woman in Commons but all the residential colleges staff are pleasant imo).</p>
<p>They have butteries open late night. However that is mostly just junk. I usually hold myself over with Gourmet Heaven during late nights. It’s pretty sweet and open 24/7… however it can be a bit pricey.</p>
<p>booyaksha, D had multi-day visits to many Ivies, 1.5 years ago and Dartmouth had the “worst” food: standard cafeteria fare, not much in the way of international or non-traditional menus, and worst of all, food plan required paying for each item. Maybe it’s changed… </p>
<p>Yale won the food competition, for her. Biggest complaint is that many well-prepared and interesting offerings just don’t hold up well to time under the heat lamp/in the steam tray. Not sure how any cafeteria overcomes this one. When she comes home she likes to cook and eat food while it’s the right temperature and consistency. Otherwise, she has no complaints about Yale food.</p>
<p>And as far as off-hours eating goes, she (and most students) have little plastic containers with which they smuggle food home for later snacking.</p>
<p>From my Ds many college visits, she found Princeton’s food to be the worst. Maybe it was just the day she was there, but she still remembers it ;).</p>