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Campus Dining

Quick Stats

Meal Plan Available? Yes
Average Meals/Week 19
Average Meal Plan Cost $4830 per year
Freshman Meal Plan Required? Yes
Student Favorites
  • Pearlstone Café
  • The Van

Student Author OverviewWhat's This?

Students either love campus dining or hate it. Some say the food tastes like cardboard, while others say it’s just like home cooking. The main problem with Bon Appétit, the company that provides food services for Goucher, is that it tries to be too creative and often ruins a basic meal. Another complaint is that food served in Stimson and Pearlstone is not always fresh, but the biggest complaint is that the menu becomes repetitive after the first two weeks of each semester. Bon Appétit always takes student complaints seriously, though, and tries to accommodate students with special food requests.

Stimson Dining Hall, the main eatery on campus, serves buffet-style meals, and across the hall from Stimson is the Kosher Dining Hall, a cozy eatery, complete with couches and a fireplace. Pearlstone Café is the savior to students who dislike the “creative” Stimson food, offering brand-name cereals, soda, and snacks. Heubeck Dining Hall is a smaller buffet-style cafeteria, open for lunch and dinner to alleviate congestion in Stimson and Pearlstone. It also offers more alternative options in the vegetarian/vegan arena. The newest addition to campus is The Van, a breakfast, lunch, and night-class snack cart in the lobby of Van Meter. Serving on-campus food and some goodies from nearby Zia’s Café, The Van is conveniently located for a quick and delicious bite.

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Campus Dining at Goucher College

cchayes

'15

Pre-Medicine Studies

4.2
A-

Food at Stimson (Main Campus Dining Hall)

Excellent array of different foods. Always has plenty of choices for vegans/vegetarians. Nearly everything is fresh. Not a wide range of fresh fruit. Always something edible. Reliable sandwhich and salad bar. Food can get dull like on any campus. Not a bad place to go with your friends to mix your dining options up.

Jan 30, 2012

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Campus Dining at Goucher College

NEWater

'14

International Relations and National Security Studies

4.6
A

Better than Army Rations - Why Complain?

I find that students complain too much, or will eventually have to find something to complain about. Having just emerged from the military some time ago, the mass-produced food is excellent compared to the army chow line.

The school makes sure that fresh ingredients are used, and we don't get served processed crap unlike the many huge universities out there. There are so many healthy options (on top of the inevitable junk food) that there really isn't much to complain about.

Nov 18, 2011

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Campus Dining at Goucher College

athene

'15

Communications

3.8
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.

Nov 17, 2011

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Facts

24-Hour Dining None
Off-Campus Places to Use Flex Money Cluck-U Chicken
Special Options The Gopher Hole serves great appetizers, desserts, hot drinks, and college staples such as pizza, nachos, and chicken quesadillas. The bookstore also sells candy, frozen meal items, canned goods, and prepackaged snacks. For late-night food emergencies, head to your nearest vending machine.
Did You Know?

Your meal plan includes meal blocks and flex dollars. Meal blocks can be used to purchase full meals (usually the equivalent of about $5.75) and can be used in Heubeck Dining Hall, Stimson Dining Hall, Kosher Dining Hall, and on selected items in Pearlstone Café and The Van. Flex dollars are used as monetary value for items in Pearlstone and The Van. However, cash or Gopher Bucks must be used for specially marked items in Pearlstone and The Van.

Gopher Bucks are money you put on your OneCard to use as a debit account. Just swipe your card and buy anything on campus, from vending machine candy to textbooks. Gopher Bucks can also be used at a few off-campus stores and restaurants.

Dining Halls & Campus RestaurantsWhat's This?

Heubeck Dining Hall
Location: Heubeck Hall
Food: American, international, sandwiches, soups, vegetarian/vegan
Hours: Monday–Thursday 11 a.m.–9 p.m., Friday 11 a.m.–2 p.m., Sunday 5 p.m.–8 p.m.

Kosher Dining Hall
Location: Stimson Hall
Food: Kosher
Hours: Monday–Sunday 11 a.m.–7 p.m.

Pearlstone Café
Location: Pearlstone Student Center
Food: American
Hours: Monday–Friday 8 a.m.–11:30 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 9 a.m.–1 p.m.

Stimson Dining Hall
Location: Stimson Hall
Food: All-you-care-to-eat American, international, vegetarian/vegan
Hours: Monday–Thursday 7:30 a.m.–8 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m.–7 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 11 a.m.–7 p.m.

The Van
Location: Van Meter lobby
Food: Baked goods, coffee, prepackaged lunch items
Hours: Monday–Friday 8 a.m.–8 p.m.

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