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Food at Canisius
By Catherine '12 | October 26, 2008
I haven’t eaten in the dining hall in weeks. But I’m not starving to death or wasting my meal plan. I’m getting three square meals a day with my meal plan without ever setting foot in the dining hall. This is made possible through the bounty of alternate dining locations here on campus.
For breakfast I go to the Street Side Cafe, which is located below Palisano Pavilion. It offers a bit more variety than the dining hall, where I was getting kind of tired of eggs from a tub, lukewarm pancakes, and the same four cereals. At Street Side Cafe they offer combos that count as a meal on your meal plan. You can get this single-serving to-go bowl of cereal, milk, and juice. Or you can get a bagel with coffee (I usually substitute hot chocolate for coffee though), or a myriad of other choices. There’s tables and couches to choose from and also televisions mounted on the walls. It’s a great way to start off my morning.
For lunch I usually head for the Old Main Snack Bar to grab a pasta meal. It’s located in Old Main on the tunnel level. The meal exchange is a bit more complicated than anywhere else, so I haven’t explored it as thoroughly. I typically get the pasta with meatballs and a breadstick. There’s also pizza, sandwiches, soup, salad, cookies, etc. While the atmosphere is not as nice as Street Side, and it can get pretty crowded at times, the food is good enough to keep me coming back.
When it comes to dinner I always head for Upper Deck. You can access Upper Deck through Palisano Pavilion on the tunnel level or one floor up. You can get subs, wraps, chicken fingers, fries, soup, salad, etc. There are daily specials all week. Upper Deck is especially nice when there’s a Sabres game on, because you can sit down for your meal in front of one of the mounted widescreen televisions and watch the Buffalo Sabres kick some major butt (unbeaten in regulation time. yeah baby!).
In conclusion, just keep in mind that the dining hall isn’t the be-all-end-all for on campus food. The dining hall isn’t bad or anything, it’s simply nice to know that you can get a bit more variety in your dining experience if you so wish.
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October 26th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
But nothing beats Dad’s lasagna, or chicken parm, or … does it?
April 10th, 2011 at 1:15 pm
So as some of you know, and most of the staff and faculty knows over the summer many changes or going to occur in the food places on campus. There is talk of adding as subway, and several of the locations on campus are renovating.
With said renovations the Upper Deck is discussing adding things to their menu, as well as changing the name. Which brings me to my main point: what should the new name for Upper Deck be? I have suggested that the new name for the Upper Deck be, Iggy’s Den.
The reason I suggest this is because not only does it accredit the founder of the Jesuit order, Ignacius Of Layola, but it also has an ironic acronym ID. Which for anyone familiar with Sigmund Freud’s views on analytical psychology is an accurate descriptor of the part of one’s psyche that must have dominated the decision to eat there.
So in conclusion, I suggest Iggy’s Den for the new name of Upper Deck.