Bartlett Dining Commons

Where "creativity" in the desserts involves the staff haphazardly squirting disgusting chocolate sauce over perfectly good rice krispie treats and angel food cake.

It's a dining hall, and they need to make everything in mass amounts...so naturally the majority of the food is just average. Occasionally okay, occasionally terrible.

The sandwich and omelette stations are nice until you eat there enough, and then the repetition of the taste really makes you lose your appetite instantly.

They do have a peanut butter and jelly station which is nice, and the bagels and cream cheese are okay in the morning. But frequently stuff will break, they will run out of utensils, or run out of peanut butter/soymilk/bowls etc.

It's average, and it's great for a dining hall if you're forced to have a meal plan, and convenient if you're stuck on campus and want something a little nicer than snack food. But if you can, avoid it!

I took swimming lessons there during college and never dreamed it would one day be a dining hall. I'm glad they kept the track in place so you can run after your meals.

Ate it for two years. Not good. Bad for the arteries. Also, a tip for the UC tour guides: if you are still claiming the Wall Street Journal ranked this the number two University dining hall in the country, like you were in 2006, please stop. I found the article, and it was ranked #2 out of the eight that they surveyed. Not the same thing.