B+
Pretty Good
The food is generally pretty good. Stimson has the standard college fair- burgers, pizza, whatever- but there's a pretty limited menu. Heubeck, the other main dining hall, has more variety and the food is healthier, but they're almost never serving meat. That's fine, but sometimes you wish you could get both at once. The main thing to worry about in the dining halls is running out of plates/forks/cups/bowls at high traffic times. There are some other places to eat, too.
As far as non-dining halls go, Pearlstone, or as they're calling it now "the passport cafe" is probably the most substantial. They serve breakfast every morning, and after that you can get sandwiches, burritos and tacos, and salads there on your meal plan. It's good. It's also closed weekends.
Alice's, located in the library, serves pastries and sandwiches with coffee and smoothies in the mornings and late at night, but it's closed between 5 and 9 every evening. The lines start forming before it re-opens for the night, a testament either to it's quality or the strange eating habist of Goucher students (nearly everything else is closed)
The Van is located in Van Meter, one of the main academic buildings, and it's good for grabbing a bagel and coffee on the way to class. They don't sell much else. Think of it as a Starbucks, but with fewer drink options.
The only place I haven't covered yet is the gopher hole, which is actually very good. They sell smoothies and ice cream and snacks that you can eat during open mic nights and other stuff that goes on down there. It's also the only place you can't use your meal plan, so if you don't have cash you're out of luck.
Two last things, they never seem to have bananas in their fruit selections, and the meals are pretty expensive. It's not a whole lot more than other schools, and they have this big thing about getting local, organic food, which is good, but for what we're paying them you'd think that they wouldn't run out of things. Which they do. Frequently. I just don't want to grade it lower because, as much as it irritates me when I want soup and they're out of soup, the stuff they have is pretty universally good.