<p>is the food good?</p>
<p>On campus or off?</p>
<p>Dining hall food is good... for the first month. After that, you begin to realize it's the same thing every week or two, and it gets old FAST. As a result, most upperclassmen don't carry meal plans. Dining dollars can be convenient with Tony Lukes, ABP, various cafes, and Houston Hall. In general, most tend to learn to love the food carts for a cheap, quick bite to eat and the off campus restaurants if you're looking for something of a bit greater quality.</p>
<p>And of course, one cannot forget the BYOs which you will surely be introduced to freshmen year.</p>
<p>tony lukes delivers for dining dollars =D.</p>
<p>Unless you live in hill, don't get a buttload of meals. Even if you DO live in hill, don't get a buttload of meals. They're overpriced crap, and it really wears down on you. Yes, it's good at first but it never changes...</p>
<p>They opened up a new food court, + there are a lot of cheap food carts around. There's also a supermarket nearby and a couple of small places to eat. It's pretty decent eating.</p>
<p>Every Wednesday there's a farmer's market in front of the Penn Bookstore.</p>
<p>didn't know about this farmer's market, hopefully it's good. </p>
<p>i'm a vegetarian who prefers to eat organic food so i love that there's trader joe's, whole foods and the reading terminal to get all my groceries. and i'm excited not to have a meal plan this year, no more trying to use up meals at mcclelland!</p>
<p>as username said, the food is in fact good. It's just that it gets old really fast. When you eat in one location primarily for 8 months, it's bound to start to wear on you.</p>
<p>That being said, I'm a junior and will have a small meal plan again this year, as I did last year (this is despite living off campus). Why? The simple reason that the food is decent when you only have to eat it here and there, and it's nice to not have to worry about cooking, finding a place agreeable to all of your friends for the night, or forking over $$. I think Penn's food is above average for dining hall food (I went to enough pre-college programs at different schools to have been exposed to enough to judge, I think), it's just very repetitive.</p>
<p>edited to add: Just as an FYI to all the people bringing up Tony Lukes: Tony Lukes is now gone.</p>
<p>on campus food is nasty...good places around campus include LTs, Gia Pronto, White Dog, New Deck, Cosi, Pizza Rustica, Marathon, Beijing, and RX</p>
<p>If you're like me and sit in your room all day, dont get a meal plan at all, just starve yourself until you can't think anymore and order a pizza online. This minimizes the chance of human and solar contact. More money in your budget for video games too.</p>
<p>Cosi = overpriced crap. </p>
<p>Cereality = rip off</p>
<p>POD</p>
<p>$18 for 3 Nickel-sized pieces of Japanese meat FTW.</p>
<p>Cereality: Cereal + Candy + Chinese takeout box + milk. I'm not even kidding. And you pay relatively mad-high cash for it.</p>
<p>Tony Luke's gone? That sure lasted a while. Any news on what they're putting there?</p>
<p>From what I hear, it's going to be a Savory sandwich shop (the place that supplies the sandwiches to Houston Hall, supposedly), as well as the new home of Insomnia Cookies.</p>
<p>If TriDi and TL's couldn't make it, I don't see any possible way this is going to last more than a year.</p>
<p>Anyone know if there is a subway or better yet, a list of all the food places on campus?</p>
<p>you can actually use dining dollars at the subway and chik-fil-a or whatever the hell its called in 1920 commons...just find that dining section on penn's website</p>
<p>theres this crepe place that had hella bomb crepes but was really overpriced when i visited campus. i don't remember what hall it was in except for that the hall is adjacent to the admissions building.</p>
<p>Houston Hall: great crepes, service with an "attitude"</p>
<p>aka they hit on all the women</p>
<p>man i love those crepes</p>