Dining Services 2018 Culinary Competition

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.

 

 

Rudolph & Hermie on Ice

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.

Bibimbap Steak and Egg Burrito

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/