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Campus Dining

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Meal Plan Available? Yes
Average Meals/Week 19
Average Meal Plan Cost $6500 per year
Freshman Meal Plan Required? Yes
All students who live on campus must be on the Smith meal plan, unless they live in one of the co-ops or Friedman apartments, since they are equipped with kitchens.
Student Favorites: Campus Dining Hall Lamont
Student Favorites: Campus Restaurant/Vendor Campus Center Café
Student Favorites: Breakfast Food on Campus
  • Chicken apple sausage
  • Egg sandwich
  • Hash browns
  • Waffles
Student Favorites: Lunch/Dinner Entrée on Campus
  • Grilled cheese
  • Noodle bowl
  • Tacos
  • Veggie soup/chili
Student Favorites: Late-night Snack on Campus Pizza from Campus Center Café

Student Author OverviewWhat's This?

For years, the decentralized dining system was one part of Smith’s goal to foster on-campus communities. Most houses had in-house dining rooms and kitchens, so students, for the most part, ate with their housemates. To accommodate the desire for more options while dealing with a budget crisis, a dining committee submitted a proposal for a more consolidated dining system. As a result, several dining rooms closed and others are only open for dinner during the week, but students can now access any dining room during meal times. This allows students to bounce around to different dining halls each night, giving them more options when it comes to what and when they want to eat. Many students are embracing the new variety of meals available, but some still struggle to cope with overcrowded dining rooms. The house community is also suffering because individual house dining rooms provided a way for students to get to know everyone in their house. However, there are special Thursday night house dinners, where houses eat together at one dining hall and the dining staff places white tablecloths and candles on the tables, which help keep the house community strong.

Smith has recently started buying much more of its ingredients locally, which is a great part of the College’s new green, sustainable initiative. Everyone's favorite food day of the year is Julia Child Day in the fall. On this day, recipes from Child, an alumna of Smith, are made in every dining hall using delicious local ingredients. It is a very special and much-loved event that helps everyone relax before Thanksgiving break and reminds everyone how hard the dining staff works to make the students happy.

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Campus Dining at Smith College

emily2015

French Language and Literature '15

4.2
A-

Tasty, but Fattening

The food is amazing for college food, but it tends to be really heavy, and they are not good at doing "exotic" cuisine.

Apr 09, 2012

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Campus Dining at Smith College

ZenJen

Liberal Arts and Humanities '12

3.8
B+

Dining

Tyler and Lamont - best dining for mass-produced food. Chase-Duckett - worst dining for mass-produced food (no flavor). Still thanks to the dedicated workers who show up each day to feed the students.

Mar 19, 2012

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Campus Dining at Smith College

sarastarshine

History '14

2.7
C+

Not the Best

Here's the thing with Smith Dining -- if you're a vegetarian or vegan, you're probably excited by the fact that you can eat at every meal. But actually looking at the overall quality and availability of food reveals that Smith's dining has a lot of room for improvement. First of all, there's no world where tofu anything should taste better than meat for those of us who really enjoy meat, and yet at Smith, that's oftentimes the case. The food is also regularly under/overcooked (rice, for example). There is also very little variety - most dining halls serve the exact same thing, minus the vegan/vegetarian dining and Julia Child's former house. It's important as well to note that if you want to make sure you get what's on the menu, go as soon as the dining halls open (we have restricted dining hours) or you might wind up eating something completely different. I've eaten at other places in the Five College area which have MUCH better food (ie, UMass).

Dec 14, 2011

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User rating for Smith College - Campus Dining is 3.5 out of 5 based on 31 user reviews.

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24-Hour Dining None
Off-Campus Places to Use Flex Money None
Special Options Smith offers halal, kosher, vegan, and vegetarian options. Students with a food allergy can contact Dining Services to come up with suitable alternatives.
Did You Know? There is a signed poster from Julia Child in the dining hall of Hubbard House, where she lived as a student in the 1930s.

Dining Halls & Campus RestaurantsWhat's This?

Campus Center Café
Location: Campus Center
Food: Coffee, pizza, sandwiches, soup
Hours: Monday–Friday 7:30 a.m.–11:30 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 9:30 a.m.–11:30 p.m.

Chapin
Location: Chapin House
Food: Grab-and-go and traditional items
Hours: Monday–Thursday 10 a.m.–1 p.m., 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m., Friday 10 a.m.–1 p.m., Sunday 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m.

Chase/Duckett
Location: Chase House and Duckett House
Food: Traditional meals
Hours: Monday–Friday 7:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m., 11:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 7:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m.

Comstock/Wilder
Location: Comstock House and Wilder House
Food: Asian
Hours: Sunday–Thursday 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m.

Cushing/Emerson
Location: Cushing House and Emerson House
Food: Salad, sandwiches, soup, traditional meals
Hours: Monday–Friday 7:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 11 a.m.–1 p.m., 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m.

Cutter/Ziskind
Location: Cutter House and Ziskind House
Food: Halal, kosher, traditional meals
Hours: Monday–Friday 7:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 11 a.m.–1 p.m., 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m.

Gillett/Northrop
Location: Gillett House and Northrop House
Food: Vegan, vegetarian
Hours: Monday–Friday 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 11 a.m.–1 p.m., 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m.

Hubbard
Location: Hubbard House
Food: Grab-and-go, healthy options
Hours: Monday–Friday 7 a.m.–1 p.m., 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 11 a.m.–1 p.m., 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m.

King/Scales
Location: King House and Scale House
Food: Traditional meals
Hours: Monday–Friday 7:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 7:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m.

Lamont
Location: Lamont House
Food: Traditional meals
Hours: Monday–Friday 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m.

Morrow/Wilson
Location: Morrow House and Wilson House
Food: Traditional meals
Hours: Monday–Thursday 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.–1 p.m.

Tyler
Location: Tyler House
Food: Pasta, salad, sandwiches, soup
Hours: Monday–Thursday 7:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m.–1:30 Pp.m., 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 9 a.m.–1 p.m., 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m.

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