Dining Options

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Dining Hall

Please note that both the Porter Dining Hall and the Porter Cafe will be closed for renovations from Spring 2009 until Winter 2010. Porter residents may feel free to dine at any of our other Dining Halls or Cafes.

The dining halls are set up food court style, offering a wide selection of entrees, soups, extensive salad bar, beverages, and home-made desserts. There are always vegetarian/vegan options, as well as some organic offerings. Being dedicated to issues of sustainability, they always offer both vegan and vegetarian entrees and have many organic and locally-grown options. Popular menu items include chili verde, fresh desert crepes, chicken and dumplings, vegan apple pancakes and our daily taqueria specials. Overall, the offerings are well balanced, well prepared, and reasonably varied.

Meals are offered seven days a week: breakfast, lunch, and dinner Monday through Friday, and brunch and dinner on weekends and holidays. While you'll probably eat most of your meals at the Porter dining hall, there may be times when you find it inconvenient to return to Porter for some meals. There are dining halls located at Cowell, Stevenson, Crown, Merrill, Porter, College Eight, College Nine/Ten, and downtown at the UCSC Inn. Your ID card is your "key" to each of these facilities, as well as a few on-campus eateries.

To view this week's menu, please view our weekly dining menu.

Further information, please visit Dining Services.

Porter Cafe

The Porter Cafe is Porter's own local coffee shop. The Porter Cafe will be closed due to renovation until January of 2010.