Feast Your Eyes: The Campus Eateries Visual Quiz

How well do you know East Hill’s cafés and dining rooms? See how many you can recognize from these 11 artistic images!

By Beth Saulnier; photography by Jason Koski

With a smorgasbord of eating options, East Hill has long been home to one of the nation’s leading campus food operations. Run in-house by Cornell Dining—and never outsourced to a corporate contractor, as at many colleges and universities—the system now comprises 29 eateries, which include not just dining rooms but also cafés, food courts, convenience stores, and more.

Some of these eateries have been on campus for decades, while others have opened within the past few years. How many of them can you recognize?

Published February 25, 2025


Comments

  1. George Weiner, Class of 1964

    Back in the day, there was the Barf Bar in UH2 and the Ivy Room in Willard Straight. The Barf Bar actually had great BLTs and made-to-order omelets. When I was in grad school, a colleague and I often bought expired, but still good, yogurt for about a quarter at the Dairy Bar.

  2. Michael Schenker, Class of 1968

    And there was Barf Bar Fred. When you walked in you shouted your order, and by the time the line made it to the grill your order was ready; nothing was written down.

    Also, the Ivy Room was the main dining hall at The Straight. In the winter we dropped a few of the plastic trays out the back windows (which were 3 or 4 floors above ground level) and went tray sliding down lib slop. Suddenly the trays were cardboard and not plastic.

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