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Campus Dining

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Meal Plan Available? Yes
Average Meals/Week 19
Freshman Meal Plan Required? Yes
All campus residents are required to purchase a meal plan.
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  • The Fens
  • Quadside

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There are five locations for students to eat on campus. Bartol Hall is on the Residence Campus, and provides breakfast, lunch, and dinner for resident students. Students living on campus are required to carry a meal plan with at least seven meals a week. Bartol is a college dining hall, and while they try to jazz up the cuisine with ethnic offerings, they still cannot escape this fact. The dining hall is composed of a spotlight station, a salad, fruit, and ice cream bar, cereal dispensers, a sauté section, pasta and pizza, a vegetarian station, and heating-lamp-warmed main courses. The grilled cheese and burgers are tolerable. Students living off campus are known to sneak in the back door to feed themselves after missing Bartol’s free-for-all style. Vegetarians have their pick of pasta, the salad station, the hot item of the day, or a dish from the vegetarian station.

Quadside Café in lower Smith Hall hosts live bands, pool, arcade games, and movie nights. The food matches this lax environment, with a snack bar within a convenience store. The convenience store keeps frozen meals, candy, and soda stocked. Late-night cravings are met with pizza, mozzarella sticks, and fries. At the Main Campus Building, a coffeeshop and miniature cafeteria provide food for students between class. The Fens has a grill station, home-cooking stand, salad bar, and pizza. The Fens is convenient for students stuck at the academic building and is preferred over Bartol. Visiting restaurants are invited weekly to spice things up.

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Campus Dining at Simmons College

oxsaraxo17

'15

Registered Nursing (RN)

3.5
B

Gets Boring

The dining hall at first was awesome. After a while the meals became repetitive and there didnt seem to be that much of a variety. Simmons College has two dining halls, "The Fens" and "Bartol Hall" each have different types of foods to satisfy all students. The meal plans are also partially accepted at some of the surrounding schools such as Emmanuel, Wentworth, and MASSART

Jan 17, 2012

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Campus Dining at Simmons College

johnsode

'14

Psychology

0.8
D-

Bartol

bartol has the worst food, in the last month I've been there 3 times one time ending with me curled into a ball feeling like i was dying. they do have good french fries and ice cream

Dec 18, 2011

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Campus Dining at Simmons College

fisherkh

'14

Nursing

1.2
D

Simmons Dining Is Not Good at All.

The food is awful. They tell you at orientation that it is good but it is not. The dining hall sucks. The staff is very nice and friendly but the food quality is poor. There are not many options for healthy drinks. The main problem seems to be that they dont taste the food they are serving us. Some food is decent but the majority is not. We all dread going to eat there and lots of times we feel sick after eating. the meal plan is not good at all. there are three options but they all cost the same which makes no sense at all. If i had the money i would choose to cook for myself. And the cafe where we tend to go for lunch is always the same food. it is better than the dining hall but it still stinks.

Jul 20, 2011

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24-Hour Dining None
Special Options For in-between hours eating, students shove quarters into the vending machines in the Fens or the residence dorms. Students can put extra money on their ID card, known as Fenway Cash, and use the card at a number of nearby off-campus locations.
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Quadside Café used to be a bar.

The Fens welcomes local eateries for special variety during the week.

Quadside Café is host to many student organization events. In between classes and studying, students can shoot a game of pool, watch television or a movie, and test their skills on arcade games.

Dining Halls & Campus RestaurantsWhat's This?

Bartol Dining Hall
Location: Residence Campus
Food: Cafeteria-style, made-to-order stations
Hours: Monday–Thursday 6:30 a.m.–8 p.m., Friday 6:30 a.m.–7:30 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m.–2 p.m., 4:30 p.m.–7 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m.–2 p.m., 4:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

The Fens
Location: Main College Building, lower level
Food: Food court with Bene, Grille Works, Home Zone, Kettle Classics, Montague’s Deli, salad bar
Hours: Monday–Thursday 7:30 a.m.–8 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m.–3 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m.–2 p.m.

Java City
Location: Main Campus Building, College Center on first floor
Food: Coffee, pastries, salads, sandwiches
Hours: Monday–Thursday 7:30 a.m.–9 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m.–6 p.m.

Meyer’s Café
Location: Beatley Library, ground floor
Food: Coffee
Hours: Monday–Thursday 7:30 a.m.–8 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m.–3 p.m.

Quadside Café
Location: Smith Hall, lower level
Food: Snack bar and convenience store
Hours: Monday–Thursday 8 a.m.–12 a.m., Friday 8 a.m.–1 a.m., Saturday 10 a.m.–1 a.m., Sunday 10 a.m.–12 a.m.

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