Dining

We love hearing from you – our plateholders – about anything and everything dining-related! Whether you have compliments or complaints, we’re always ready to listen. After all, our program is designed by you for you and your feedback helps us be ever better.

Five Dining Halls. Two awards: One trophy and one champion belt. On March 25 at 2:00 p.m. in Lerner Auditorium, there'll be an epic food showdown and all Columbia Dining Plan Holders are invited to attend! Registration is required. 

We hear you: you love soup and want more soup options on campus. Starting on January 21, Soup! There It Is will offer a daily soup special at Blue Java Uris. 

Brought to you by the culinary team at John Jay: come get your bowl on at Johnny’s, opening for spring service on January 21 at the John Jay Gate! 

Columbia Dining is excited to welcome the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) dining hall to the Flex program, starting January 21.

Kate knows how hard it can be to maintain healthy eating habits this time of year. Between project deadlines, impending finals, and the upcoming holidays, the end of the year can be stressful and hectic. Read her top tips to get you through finals season.

In the summer of 2024, Devante Dickerson joined Columbia Dining through the New York City Public School’s Success Via Apprenticeship Program.

Chef Mike is launching a new series called From the Kitchen to give dining plan holders a behind-the-scenes look at our operation. In our first edition, Chef Mike explains the process of batch cooking and why it's a win-win for everyone. Learn more about how we use batch cooking to serve food that's always fresh while also reducing our food waste!

Congratulations to the Columbia Dining team for being included at #22 in the Princeton Review's listing as one of the top 25 campus for food.

Ferris Booth Commons hosted an egg cracking and omelet making competition with a surprise guest: Interim President Katrina Armstrong. 

Grace Dodge was a popular introduction to the Columbia Dining portfolio last academic year. With its reopening in the fall, the team is fine tuning the menu to focus on crowd favorites and to simplify transactions in the servery.

Evolving menu offerings and hours, plus new campus location! Fac Shack service for the year begins Tuesday, September 3.

Starting on Sunday, August 25, Columbia Dining will offer breakfast, lunch, and dinner service to new students and students supporting NSOP programming.

On March 21, five dining halls - Faculty House, John Jay, JJ's Place, Chef Mike's Sub Shop, and Ferris Booth Commons - competed in a epic food showdown.

Students often have demanding class schedules and the challenge of balancing classwork with internships, part-time jobs, extracurriculars, and so much more. With a Columbia Dining Plan, you'll have delicious and healthy options, even when you're on the run. 

The Friendsgiving event was a feast for the senses and a whole lot of fun! With a Thanksgiving-themed dinner that had everyone's taste buds dancing, a lively photo booth for striking silly poses, and free-flowing hot chocolate to keep spirits warm.

On September 20th, Columbia Dining had the pleasure of welcoming Ethan Brown (BUS'08), Founder, President and CEO of Beyond Meat to John Jay Dining Hall for our Meet and Eat series!

Find out how you and four friends can win $100 Flex each, just by eating with Columbia Dining.

When the lunch crunch gets real, follow our tips for the best experience possible.

Pop-up alert! On September 7, 12, and 13, Columbia Dining Plan Holders and Barnard Dining Plan Holders can use their meal swipes at Terry and Yaki, the first and only halal Asian food cart in NYC. Their menu will include a delicious variety of meat and plant-based teriyaki dishes. 

Congratulations to the Columbia Dining team for being included in the Princeton Review's listing as one of the top 25 campus for food.

New for the Fall 2023 semester, Columbia Dining has added a food truck to its wide range of on-campus lunch destinations.

What do surfing lobsters, snow cones, and a boatload of shrimp have in common? They were all a part of the Columbia Dining Surf & Turf 2023 experience! On April 20, John Jay Dining Hall and Ferris Booth Commons transformed into tropical oases for this annual springtime event.

Columbia Dining has launched its integration with Occuspace, a new technology vendor partner, to improve accuracy of the existing capacity indicator on the website for Dining Hall locations.

On February 7, we welcomed Chef Chris Scott of Butterfunk Biscuit Co. to John Jay Dining Hall. Chef Scott sampled his signature biscuit sandwiches and fried biscuit donuts. If you're like us and couldn't get enough (or you missed out), you can find Chef Scott and Butterfunk Biscuit Co. at Manhattanville Market in the Jerome L. Greene Science building. 

We're not engineers, but we know how to calculate good food that you'll love --like fresh-made pizza pi.

Good for the planet, and good for your wallet! Max 24 oz. refill.

Be among the first 25 Columbia Dining Plan Holders to visit each Columbia Dining location (residential and retail) and win a custom branded Yeti tumbler, plus a lifelong claim to fame as a #1 Dining Fan.

If you could add one dish to our menu, what would it be? We love receiving student requests and try to incorporate them into our menu wherever possible. You can even submit a specific recipe!

Based on feedback from students, Columbia Dining was selected by the Princeton Review as one of the top 25 for Best Campus Food.

Based on feedback from our most popular menus, Faculty House features fresh fish each day, plus a meat and vegan entrée, and sides of pasta, veggies, starches, grains, and salads – and don’t forget fruit or dessert!

We're serving up subs like Chef Mike’s own grandmother used to make. Every day offers a selection of hot and cold traditional or vegan oversized sub specials, served on semolina rolls.

Flex is accepted on campus, at the University Bookstore, and at several local businesses including grocery stores, restaurants, health and drug stores. Plus, now Flex can be used for delivery orders through Grubhub.