<p>Kitchen Zinc is really good and never really that crowded. It’s behind zinc, has artisan pizza and is relatively cheap. also like thai taste much cheaper and better than bangkok gardens and thai pan asian, ivy noodle is actually good even when you’re sober, i like the dumplings and the curry noodle is good, prime 16 has really good burgers, est est est has great pizza.</p>
<p>Sooooo
rain, cold and chances for sleet/snow next week…</p>
<p>Probably good we get a taste of late winter/early spring in New Haven
:rolleyes:</p>
<p>Thanks for the thoughts for good eats.</p>
<p>Can anyone eat at the res-dining halls or must we be “guests” of a student…</p>
<p>so if after touring --we are done at 38 Hillhouse, can we eat on campus–and if so–where-?? is the best choice?
Commons (is this the one on Grove? or at SOM?
, or one of the res-colleges–which would you choose–
From the map Silliman, TDwight, Calhoun and Berkley are within a few blocks…</p>
<p>-We have to be back at AdCom for the SEAS tour…so we are not “done” when we head for lunch.</p>
<p>What’s the best choice for our student to get a feel of the place or would it be weird to have a parent in tow—
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<p>Would say Wall St/Naples Pizza, that kind of thing be better?</p>
<p>I think most anyone can get into Commons to eat, but you do have to pay… and for most of the residential college dining halls, a student would have to accompany you into the dining hall, and you would have to pay there also… the Commons is probably the most random and busiest which means it is easier to blend into the background there… and Commons would give your student an easy chance to get a feel for the kids… and the food… my child eats there quite a bit as he has classes over at Science Hill so Commons is an easy option… the walls there are engraved with all the names of alum that have died in wars since the American Revolution…that lobby is sacred ground to me… and I visit Commons on every trip and trace/honor a name/life with my hand… Commons is very close to 38 Hillhouse… </p>
<p>If you are just looking for a quick bite to eat, then Educated Burger or Au Bon Pain or A1 Pizza are all located on Broadway, by the bookstore …</p>
<p>Anyone can eat in the residential college dining halls, but you need to get someone to swipe you in. (not hard, you just stand outside the courtyard and wait for a student to go in or out, then find the dining hall within that college). </p>
<p>I would recommend Commons for lunch since there is the most options in terms of food and because it is the busiest lunchtime dining hall because of its location. And yes, it is the one at college and grove. I wouldn’t recommend SOM-- undergrads go there if they are already on science hill, and it is good food, but it won’t really give you the college feel. If you want a residential college, Silliman is the closest to where you’ll be and you can enter right from hillhouse. </p>
<p>i don’t think it would be weird to have a parent in tow. When i went on my college tours my parents ate with me in the dining halls, and when they visit me here they eat in the dining halls. But it depends how proactive the prefrosh is. If he/she is comfortable going up to a group of students sitting down, saying that they are a perspective student, and asking to join, then that would be fine. But there is nothing wrong with having a parent in the dining hall.</p>
<p>go to the Silliman dining hall.</p>
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<p>hey 4thfloor…
that is a great picture…honestly, it could also be the Saybrook Dining Hall… looks exactly the same!!</p>
<p>You may be right … it’s been a long time. Never dined at Saybrook in my years there …</p>
<p>There is a nice photo of the Silliman Common Room I googled, but the somehow it doesn’t work when I post the link.</p>
<p>Just got back from dropping off D1 after spring break, we had lunch in the Commons so that D2 could see it. Students are supposed to be given a certain number of ‘guest passes’ to get friends and family into dining halls; D1 didn’t have any, but the woman at the entrance was nice enough to let us both in gratis. </p>
<p>Also ate at the Cuban place (can’t remember the name) for dinner and Claire’s for lunch, both were good.</p>
<p>That picture is definitely the Saybrook dining hall, which looks out on the large Branford quad.</p>
<p>Entomom, was the Cuban place Soul De Cuba? Have not eaten at the New Haven one but there is a branch in Honolulu. . .fun, and very authentic.</p>
<p>Yes, that was it! I really liked it, it’s in a small but comfy space, the waiter was very nice and the food was tasty and reasonably priced. D1 got a salad with shrimp, D2 the calamari appetizer and I got one of the signature chicken dishes with a great tropical salsa on top, rice and black beans and fried plantains.</p>
<p>Afterwards we got frozen yogurt up the street, yummy with mochi!</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I will be in New Haven only on a Saturday. Any reccomendations on where to eat if I want to run into Yale students? Commons, off campus, etc?</p>
<p>Commons food is notably worse than the residential college dining halls. The best ones - Berkeley, Davenport, Silliman - are actually relatively nice places to eat. A bit expensive for a non-student, but in terms of food quality and atmosphere the residential college dining halls are definitely a better way to get a feel for Yale than Commons. Commons has all of the athletes and people grabbing a quick bite. Residential colleges are incredibly important at Yale, and I think a dinner at Berkeley/DPort would make that apparent.</p>
<p>Would it be relatively easy to get a student to let go in for lunch, especially on a Saturday?</p>
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<p>This is generally but not always true. Dinner yesterday, for example, was markedly better at Commons than it was in the RC where I first tried to eat.</p>
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<p>As long as they avoid Pierson, Stiles, and TD, they’ll have a fine perspective on RC dining halls.</p>
<p>Is the food that drastically different between residential colleges? It seems as if they would be similar. And since they are not, does this anger the ones that get placed in colleges with crappy food?</p>
<p>Pepe’s clam pizza is unbelievable (if you like clams)!!! They are known for it and it is the best pizza I have ever had…of any kind of pizza. Worth the trip and the wait!</p>
<p>Hi There</p>
<p>When we were in NH–
we ate breakfast at the Copper Kitchen–fast, cheap --a good local place…good for a quick plate of eggs, potatos and coffee…that kind of thing
Also the ethiopian place was excellent - we like ethiopain and this place was nice…not as good as some of the places in DC - yet much better than we had in Boston.</p>
<p>Foghog, Copper Kitchen, after 40 has to close…Yale wont give them an extended lease, just month to month. I remember going there in high school! Well, this is the third establishment that had to leave because of lease issues with Yale…hope it’s the last for a while.
Many other good places to eat that are fast and cheap, but that was just a part of downtown.</p>