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Grinnell College - Campus Dining - College ProwlerCollege Prowler3.85

Campus Dining

B+
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Meal Plan Available? Yes
Average Meals/Week 20
Average Meal Plan Cost $4682 per year
Freshman Meal Plan Required? Yes
All first-year students are required to participate in the Full Meal Plan.
Student Favorites: Campus Dining Hall Marketplace (there's only one dining hall)
Student Favorites: Campus Restaurant/Vendor
  • Bob’s Underground Café
  • The Spencer Grill
Student Favorites: Breakfast Food on Campus Eggs to order
Student Favorites: Lunch/Dinner Entrée on Campus
  • Chicken wings
  • Stir-fry
Student Favorites: Late-night Snack on Campus Pizzas from the Grill
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The dining hall offers a great deal of variety and accommodates various types of cuisines, dietary restrictions, and generally aims for nutrition. Additionally, the Spencer Grill offers Out Takes for those students in a rush or busy cramming. Out Takes uses a meal that would have been valid at the dining hall, but it give you chips, cookies, a drink, and a vegetarian or non-vegetarian entrée.

Other than the limited hours, Marketplace offers a couple of decent dining options. The Spencer Grill is a café where you can get sandwiches, quesadillas, Easy Mac, and anything that may help you through the next hour of studying. Bob's Underground Café is another venue where you can get late-night bagels, muffins, and coffee. Grinnell provides you with nutritional dining options mainly because in the town there is only one decent Chinese restaurant, a few Mexican options, and a surfeit of deliciously unhealthy fast food.

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Campus Dining at Grinnell College

mendozaj

'15

Pre-Medicine Studies

3.8
B+

Unappreciated Food

The food is great, and the first few weeks its delicious, but there is not much variety. After a while it starts to lose its charm. They do have special events every once in a while, and change up the food which is very delicious.

Jan 22, 2012

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Campus Dining at Grinnell College

grinnellian

'15

Chemistry

5.0
A+

Wonderful and Delicious

The Dhall has a great selection of food. There is a gluten-free station, vegetarian station, sub station, stir-fry, pasta bar, pizza station, grill, and home-cooked meal station. There is food that meets all dietary restrictions. The bakery is fabulous and the desserts are to die for! There is also the Grill which has lots of food, especially good for late night snacks and quick bites to eat, as well as meals that you can take and then eat later if you are in a rush.

Jan 10, 2012

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Campus Dining at Grinnell College

Quiconque

'14

Political Science and Government

4.2
A-

Good for What It Is

They try and usually you can find something that is good. The freshness is lacking on the fruits and vegetables. You can eat well and healthy if you try. Towards the end of the semester things get repetitive.

Jan 04, 2012

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Special Options Every dorm has at least one kitchen that students can use at their convenience. Keeping a stash of frozen pizzas is always a good idea.
Did You Know? Dining Services sponsors special event meals throughout the year at no additional cost for students.

Dining Halls & Campus RestaurantsWhat's This?

Bob’s Underground Café
Location: Main Hall, lower level
Food: Coffeehouse
Hours: Daily 8 p.m.–1 a.m.

Marketplace
Location: Joe Rosenfield '25 Center
Food: Dining hall food
Hours: Monday–Thursday 7 a.m.–8 p.m., Friday 7 a.m.–7 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.–7 p.m., Sunday 11:30 a.m.–7 p.m.

The Spencer Grill
Location: Joe Rosenfield '25 Center
Food: Coffee, Out Takes, quesadillas, sandwiches, snacks
Hours: Monday–Friday 7:30 a.m.–12 a.m., Saturday–Sunday 1 p.m.–12 a.m.

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