With the great efforts of the City of Waterbury, UConn, and UConn Dining Services; we opened a Starbucks at the UConn Waterbury Campus! 6 years in the making! A great BIG Thank You! to all whom were involved.
Dining Services is pleased to announce that all of our retail operations now accept Discover and American Express. That includes all of our UC Cafes, The Beanery, UConn Dairy Bar, Dairy Bar Too, Union Street Market, One Plate, Two Plates, Freshens, Chuck & Augie’s, Union Central Exchange C-Store, the Food for Though Food Truck, the Ice Cream Truck plus Mort’s at Avery Point and Starbucks on the UConn Waterbury Campus.
Dining Services is proud to announce the opening of Starbucks Café at the University of Connecticut’s Waterbury campus! Hours for the location are as follows:
Monday – Friday: 5:30am – 10:00pm
Saturday: 7:00am – 10:00pm
Sunday: 7:00am – 9:00pm
On November 15th, UConn Department of Dining Services prepared a special luncheon at the Working Land’s Alliance 17th Annual Meeting at the State Capital. The menu included fresh produce from UConn’s Spring Valley Student Farm and the UConn Dairy Bar as well as other locally sourced foods from Connecticut.
Are you looking for a stage on which to perform, play music, read poetry, etc? The Beanery Cafe, located in the Benton Museum, will offer “open mic” every Tuesday from 4:00pm – 7:30pm. No need to register, just show up and show off! For information contact ethan.haggerty@uconn.edu
We entered Putnam into the 2017 Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards and won Bronze!
Collegiate food service is a demanding profession worthy of recognition. In college and university culinary arts, the ultimate professional tribute is a NACUFS Loyal E. Horton Dining Award.
Named for a NACUFS founder, past president and highly regarded innovator, the Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards celebrate exemplary menus, presentations, special event planning, and new dining concepts, and provide an avenue for sharing ideas and creative presentations in campus dining services.
Enjoy this award winning dining hall!
We have won GOLD!
NACUFS – National Association of College & University Food Services Best Local Foods Recipe Contest.
The Bibimbap Steak and Egg Burrito, was served at our “Food for Thought” Food Truck on campus. We wanted students to experience an item with authentic Korean flavors, but made with local ingredients. Though usually served in a bowl, this hand-held version of Bibimbap is easy to eat while walking across campus. This was a special for a short period and will be available again next fall.
The local ingredients include:
The Beef Shoulder Tender used in our recipe is raised 40 miles from campus at a family owned farm, Four Mile Rive Farm http://fourmileriverfarm.com/. They produce grass fed, antibiotic and hormone free Angus, Hereford and Charolais steer.
Asian Pears: Lyman Orchards, Middlefield, CT, located about 30 miles from campus specializing in producing over seven varieties of pears. http://lymanorchards.com/.
UConn Eggs: UConn Poultry Farm on campus. https://animalscience.cahnr.uconn.edu/poultry-show/
UConn Honey: Apiaries on campus. http://dining.uconn.edu/apiaries/
Garlic, Spinach, Carrots and Onions: Spring Valley Student Farm, our student run farm on campus. http://springvalleyfarm.blogspot.com/. UConn students who are members of the Eco House Living and Learning Community can opt to live on Spring Valley Student Farm, where they learn about organic farming during their time enrolled at UConn.
Shitake Mushrooms: Chatfield Hollow Farm, Killingworth, CT, located about 35 miles from campus. http://www.chatfieldfarm.com/
Freshens 5 Year Anniversary came with an award! After only 5 years with UConn, our Freshens in the Student Union, has the 2nd highest number of sales of colleges in the U.S. Over 700,000 shakes have been sold in just 5 years! They have also made a large donation in our name to The Fisher House! A charity for US Military Men and Woman. Thank you UConn and Thank you Freshens!
UConn Makes Top 5 Greenest Colleges for 2017