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Café Ventanas

Dining hall · Del Mar

3.4 · 107 reviews Google
hdh.ucsd.edu

About Café Ventanas

At Café Ventanas, we're proud to serve up a taste of home in our modern dining hall. Inspired by global flavors and familiar favorites, our menu is designed to transport you to your favorite places. Enjoy our wide selection of international dishes, crafted with love for a truly satisfying meal. Take...

At Café Ventanas, we're proud to serve up a taste of home in our modern dining hall. Inspired by global flavors and familiar favorites, our menu is designed to transport you to your favorite places. Enjoy our wide selection of international dishes, crafted with love for a truly satisfying meal. Take a seat on our spacious patio and soak up the California sunshine - it's the perfect spot to unwind after a long day. We're grateful for our loyal customers who rave about our food quality, cozy atmosphere, and attentive service, making every visit feel like a warm gathering with friends.

What Customers Say About Café Ventanas

Café Ventanas is a campus dining hall with friendly staff and a nice environment. Food quality is inconsistent, with some finding it bland or repetitive. It's popular among students, especially for breakfast, but ordering can be problematic.

Popular Dishes

crispy chicken sandwich Impinger's pasta bowls chicken tenders grilled cheese and fries

Best For

Solo Dining Quick Bite Casual

Tip: Go early for breakfast (before 9:00 am) to avoid the rush.

Features

Accessible

What to see nearby

Marshall College Field
A 432m

Marshall College Field

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Biblioteca Geisel
A 710m

Biblioteca Geisel

biblioteca

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UC San Diego Library
A 716m

UC San Diego Library

biblioteca

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University of California San Diego Park
A 798m

University of California San Diego Park

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Warren Mall
A 874m

Warren Mall

parque

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Casa William Black-SDM-W-12 Locus A (CA-SDI-4669)
Heritage
A 929m

Casa William Black-SDM-W-12 Locus A (CA-SDI-4669)

yacimiento arqueológico

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Explore the area around Café Ventanas

Café Ventanas is located in Del Mar, surrounded by cultural and historical points of interest. Here are some of the most notable places nearby.

Historical Heritage

  • Casa William Black-SDM-W-12 Locus A (CA-SDI-4669) (A 929m) — place in California listed on National Register of Historic Places Lugar inscrito en el Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos

Parks & Gardens

  • Marshall College Field (A 432m) — park in San Diego County, California, United States of America
  • University of California San Diego Park (A 798m) — park in San Diego County, California, United States of America
  • Warren Mall (A 874m) — park in the United States of America

Other Points of Interest

  • Biblioteca Geisel (A 710m) — main library building at University of California, San Diego
  • UC San Diego Library (A 716m) — academic library

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Frequently asked questions about Café Ventanas

Café Ventanas is located at 10006 Scholars Dr N, La Jolla, CA 92093, Del Mar.
Near Café Ventanas you can find points of interest such as Marshall College Field, Biblioteca Geisel, UC San Diego Library, University of California San Diego Park.
Café Ventanas offers dining_hall cuisine.
Café Ventanas has regular opening hours. Check their profile for updated schedules.
Café Ventanas offers the following services: dine-in, takeaway.
The most recommended dishes at Café Ventanas based on customer reviews are: crispy chicken sandwich, Impinger's pasta bowls, chicken tenders, grilled cheese and fries.
Café Ventanas is ideal for solo dining, quick bites, casual dining.
Café Ventanas is a campus dining hall with friendly staff and a nice environment. Food quality is inconsistent, with some finding it bland or repetitive. It's popular among students, especially for breakfast, but ordering can be problematic.
Go early for breakfast (before 9:00 am) to avoid the rush.
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Café Ventanas Del Mar Reviews

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Tony Wu

Best breakfast dining hall on campus. Hands down. If you’re a regular, you will get noticed. Best to come right when it opens or before 9:00 am (rush hour). Also fine for lunch too. Lots of options and they account for holidays as well. Was closed for renovations last spring quarter but should look a lot nicer now. Definitely give it a shot if you haven’t already!

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Sean

Ordering is usually scuffed but looks nice. Dining hall food is dining hall food

Tony Wu
Tony Wu

Best breakfast dining hall on campus. Hands down. If you’re a regular, you will get noticed. Best to come right when it opens or before 9:00 am (rush hour). Also fine for lunch too. Lots of options and they account for holidays as well. Was closed for renovations last spring quarter but should look a lot nicer now. Definitely give it a shot if you haven’t already!

Sean
Sean

Ordering is usually scuffed but looks nice. Dining hall food is dining hall food

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Gene Peterson
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Joori Kim
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Brian Tuey
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Stephan Spangenberg
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Georgia Tassier
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Julio Dominguez
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Rafael Torres

no place liked greeeeeeaaaat

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Gabriel Talledo

Delicious food ❤️

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ayoub daoudi

how much coffe

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Luxiao Wang

除了炸鸡都很好吃

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ELDER GARCIA

Excelente lugar con una super y hermosa vista rodeada de unas plantas naturales bellísimas y con una deliciosa gastronomía 🤤🤤

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Tommy Acero

Buen servicio y muy rico

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Pin Wang (Patrick)

咖啡不错

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Sasha Yu
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Abarajithan Gnaneswaran
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Roger CPA
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Akhil Ramshankar
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Janice Wu
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Janet Lake

The food is awesome! The staff are helpful and friendly.

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Roberto Padilla

Love it and good price and service!

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E

Great food and service!

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Avery Charneski

all of the employees are hot 😳

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Bofan Chen

A great selection of food, and wonderful service, from my experience (apart from an occasional long wait - mostly for in-high-demand stir fry this quarter). My personal favorite place to eat on campus. :)

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Jack Whitney

The crispy chicken sandwich is like the Spotify premium of your highschool chicken sandwich. I be scarfin down that godsend 24/7. Global got some cool dishes that will give you that feeling of a white mom that just discovered the spice drawer. Impinger's pasta bowls never miss as well. The seating area is pretty cool, with a raised middle section in case you want to lord over your peers as you slave away at MMW. Overall, I know it ain't the best dining hall at UCSD, but I rep cafe V 4ever 😎👍

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Speedstor

The food is satisfactory. The place's environment is very nice. Surrounded with windows as it's name suggests. Would recommend if one is stuck with ucsd's dining plan.

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Jaci Gibson

It took me a bit to figure out how this works. Mostly students call ahead and pick up orders to go back to their rooms. They do allow outsiders to drop in but only take credit or debit cards.

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Jiani Li

Surprisingly tasty food

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Neeco Beltran

Nothing but positive vibes here. Friendly staff, fairly tasty food, and did I mention friendly staff? The workers there are the best!

Jiani Li
Jiani Li

Surprisingly tasty food

Jaci Gibson
Jaci Gibson

It took me a bit to figure out how this works. Mostly students call ahead and pick up orders to go back to their rooms. They do allow outsiders to drop in but only take credit or debit cards.

Jack Whitney
Jack Whitney

The crispy chicken sandwich is like the Spotify premium of your highschool chicken sandwich. I be scarfin down that godsend 24/7. Global got some cool dishes that will give you that feeling of a white mom that just discovered the spice drawer. Impinger's pasta bowls never miss as well. The seating area is pretty cool, with a raised middle section in case you want to lord over your peers as you slave away at MMW. Overall, I know it ain't the best dining hall at UCSD, but I rep cafe V 4ever 😎👍

Speedstor
Speedstor

The food is satisfactory. The place's environment is very nice. Surrounded with windows as it's name suggests. Would recommend if one is stuck with ucsd's dining plan.

Bofan Chen
Bofan Chen

A great selection of food, and wonderful service, from my experience (apart from an occasional long wait - mostly for in-high-demand stir fry this quarter). My personal favorite place to eat on campus. :)

Neeco Beltran
Neeco Beltran

Nothing but positive vibes here. Friendly staff, fairly tasty food, and did I mention friendly staff? The workers there are the best!

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Daniel Miles

Grilled cheese and fries a good combo, 9/10 times is perfect, sometimes the cheese is not very melted.

Daniel Miles
Daniel Miles

Grilled cheese and fries a good combo, 9/10 times is perfect, sometimes the cheese is not very melted.

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Some Person
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Rafi Overton
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Marcos Soler
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Nhat Phu Tsoi
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David Figueroa-Martinez
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Irene Lopez
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Derpy Popo

It's a pretty dining hall. The food is UCSD food, so don't expect much, but it's one of the better options in my opinion.

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Isihizuka Hiroki

サービスはよかったのと、土曜の遅くまでやってるのがよかったです。味は普通……

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Lizbeth
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Mika Hong
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Chrisanny Salmon
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Roger Lee

Decent food compared to what people say, nice atmosohere.

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Andrew Nguyen

Tasty and varied options and would be 5 stars if not for the location and price.

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Preston Keightley

Very good service, very friendly. Good food aswell

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YJ K

Not bad for the price, but great place to chat with cohorts and do homework

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Cody M

Food is good. Environment is great with amazing view.

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Charles Lu

Expansive but one of the best dining halls oncampus.

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Tyler Bailey

Decent enough food for a college dining hall

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Anish Thakkar (Doc Thakkar)

As a dining hall, I have no opinion (I've only gotten water here). But as a meeting place, this is a great facility! Shoutout to JSA for their Japanese Conversation Hours, which used to take place here :)

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Kira “Killer” Sin-Chao

The food is good but very repetitive, however, there is a great atmosphere.

Anish Thakkar (Doc Thakkar)
Anish Thakkar (Doc Thakkar)

As a dining hall, I have no opinion (I've only gotten water here). But as a meeting place, this is a great facility! Shoutout to JSA for their Japanese Conversation Hours, which used to take place here :)

Kira “Killer” Sin-Chao
Kira “Killer” Sin-Chao

The food is good but very repetitive, however, there is a great atmosphere.

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Anne Zhang
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Andrew von Plitt
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Unduwap KandageDon
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Masanobu HIRAOKA_SD
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Gooster SD
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Juan Salazar
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Tommy Sharkey

On Campus Cafeteria. Extremely salty.

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Junru “Thomas” Ren

Pizza no good...

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Khoi Nguyen

Long waiting time

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K T.

This place is hard to find.

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Heather S

Sigh. Education.

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Will Wu
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Mary
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diedra washington
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Bianca Flores
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Virginia Shih

Not much to say. Some days it's good, some days there's more to be desired. The view is always beautiful.

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Andy Nguyen

Yummy food great way to spend dining dollars. Lots of windows

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Gary Chen

The stuff here is edible, sometimes...

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Daniel Call

The staff was friendly and the service speed was pretty good. The food quality, on the other hand, left much to be desired. In addition, they only offer ice cream in chocolate, strawberry and coffee. In what universe is coffee a flavor preference over vanilla, generically speaking?

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Bryan Wu

I'm a freshman starting at UCSD in ERC. The overall food quality and environment of the restaurant are good, but every time I try to order something off of the triton to go app, my order is either not received or late. (Not a restaurant. I’d recommend going to if you're in a hurry)

Bryan Wu
Bryan Wu

I'm a freshman starting at UCSD in ERC. The overall food quality and environment of the restaurant are good, but every time I try to order something off of the triton to go app, my order is either not received or late. (Not a restaurant. I’d recommend going to if you're in a hurry)

Daniel Call
Daniel Call

The staff was friendly and the service speed was pretty good. The food quality, on the other hand, left much to be desired. In addition, they only offer ice cream in chocolate, strawberry and coffee. In what universe is coffee a flavor preference over vanilla, generically speaking?

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Alejandro Peña
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Nina M
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Åshild Telle
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Joseph Hwang
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Jerry Zhou

tastes bad, environment desirable

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kristie wong

Bruh

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Srent Biegel

It is common knowledge the worst dining hall on campus, crazy prices

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Bill Moore

Not much of a selection, basic stuff, overcooked buffet food

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Richard Wang

Cereal could've been better

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Aly

Got a stomachache from having a burger here

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Reuven Reyman

Ever since the new menu, food quality and taste has decreased. And no music :(

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ifearedfate97

My first impression of the exterior and interior of the dining hall was, "wow that's very nice". The food however, is mediocre, overpriced, overcooked and sometimes undercooked. The pizzas are not fresh daily, you can tell by the taste that they have been reused from the day before. The dining hall from what I heard from a friend that works there, barely passed the health inspection. The dining hall allegedly suffered from cross contamination in the meats, so vegans and vegetarians beware. Furthermore, the burgers are incredibly bland. I either receive a bland overcooked burger or a bland undercooked burger that when I bite into it tastes like oily mush. The fries that accompany it are decent, the ones that come with the asada fries are better. I don't know why chefs or students don't season their meats like they would the fries. Breakfast is boring, the sausage in the breakfast burritos are incredibly salty. To top it off the chopped up sausage is old leftover sausage from the morning before. The fruit is decent, also bland at times. I don't know how people would feel about knowing that allot of their fruits and vegetables are washed with antifungals. Nonetheless, it's convenient.

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Patrick Lazo

Food is often not very good and very inconsistent. Sometimes I do feel a little sick throughout the day after eating there. Service is pretty robotic besides a few nice longtimers. As a student, I typically avoid it if I can.

Reuven Reyman
Reuven Reyman

Ever since the new menu, food quality and taste has decreased. And no music :(

ifearedfate97
ifearedfate97

My first impression of the exterior and interior of the dining hall was, "wow that's very nice". The food however, is mediocre, overpriced, overcooked and sometimes undercooked. The pizzas are not fresh daily, you can tell by the taste that they have been reused from the day before. The dining hall from what I heard from a friend that works there, barely passed the health inspection. The dining hall allegedly suffered from cross contamination in the meats, so vegans and vegetarians beware. Furthermore, the burgers are incredibly bland. I either receive a bland overcooked burger or a bland undercooked burger that when I bite into it tastes like oily mush. The fries that accompany it are decent, the ones that come with the asada fries are better. I don't know why chefs or students don't season their meats like they would the fries. Breakfast is boring, the sausage in the breakfast burritos are incredibly salty. To top it off the chopped up sausage is old leftover sausage from the morning before. The fruit is decent, also bland at times. I don't know how people would feel about knowing that allot of their fruits and vegetables are washed with antifungals. Nonetheless, it's convenient.

Patrick Lazo
Patrick Lazo

Food is often not very good and very inconsistent. Sometimes I do feel a little sick throughout the day after eating there. Service is pretty robotic besides a few nice longtimers. As a student, I typically avoid it if I can.

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Keguang Zhang
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Aryaman Sinha
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Jon Hoadley
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Keguang Zhang

吐了

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Amir R

Overpriced. You easly spend 15$+ just for lunch here. Preying on students...

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Roger Zhang

Very low efficiency, waiting for hot dog for more than 30mins, lazy staff……

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Christian Davis

The only place that you can pay two dollars for half a potato or five for a whole

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Edward Lin

The best meal of my life.

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Michael Wu

Often cold food at high campus prices

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Pol Campos-Mercade

Bad food and unreasonably high prices

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Fernando Fernandez

It's 7:18pm and they close at 9pm. They love either hanging up the phone or have it off the hook so calls don't come in. Called there multiple times.

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Laurence Mach

Horrible dining hall food. Very bland. On the plus side, their chicken tenders aren’t bad :) and the staff is amazing!

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Pooy Pooy

Inconsistent serving sizes of terrible, bland, overcooked/dry food for high prices. Some of the student staff (Javier) are extremely unfriendly and rude.

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Kay Chambers

You have to watch out for the Cook's they never changed gloves, eating out the food on the line to serve for the customers. They never changed gloves or aprons

Fernando Fernandez
Fernando Fernandez

It's 7:18pm and they close at 9pm. They love either hanging up the phone or have it off the hook so calls don't come in. Called there multiple times.

Kay Chambers
Kay Chambers

You have to watch out for the Cook's they never changed gloves, eating out the food on the line to serve for the customers. They never changed gloves or aprons

Laurence Mach
Laurence Mach

Horrible dining hall food. Very bland. On the plus side, their chicken tenders aren’t bad :) and the staff is amazing!

Pooy Pooy
Pooy Pooy

Inconsistent serving sizes of terrible, bland, overcooked/dry food for high prices. Some of the student staff (Javier) are extremely unfriendly and rude.

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10006 Scholars Dr N, La Jolla, CA 92093

Del Mar, CA 92093

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🥡 Takeout
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🕐 Hours Today
7AM-9PM
Rating
3.4/5
💬 Reviews
107
💰 Price Level
$$
⏱️ Typical Visit
People typically spend 20 min to 3 hr here
📞 Phone
+1 858-822-1975
🌐 Website
hdh.ucsd.edu
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