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
C+
Edible at Times
There are two main dining halls at Simmons, one on the residence campus and one on the academic campus. The one on the academic, or the fens, is pretty good. There's a wide variety of choices and most are not too bad. But Bartol, the dining hall on the residence campus, is downright awful. The food is very repetitive and often tasteless. I often walk into Bartol starving and see absolutely nothing that looks remotely appetizing. And even if it looks appetizing, 19 times out of 20 it isn't.
May 02, 2012
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Campus Dining at Simmons College
D
Dining
The dining, I hate to say, is awful. For the money we are spending to go to Simmons College does not show in the dining hall systems. There are not a lot of options, they are open at weird hours, do not have a good variety of food, and the food at the Bartol dining hall is absolutely terrible. The fens is expensive, and it gets old after a while. Simmons really needs to build new dining halls, or stores. Especially on residence campus.
Mar 15, 2012
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Campus Dining at Simmons College
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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