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East Side Dining / Chávez Hall

Buffet, mexican, grill, barbecue, italian, pizza, deli, dessert, salad, international, american · Stony Brook

3.5 · 267 reviews Google
stonybrook.edu

About East Side Dining / Chávez Hall

East Side Dining, located in Chávez Hall at Stony Brook, offers a diverse and welcoming dining experience. Known for its significantly improved dine-in options, the restaurant provides a variety of all-you-can-eat choices at competitive prices. Customers appreciate the wide selection of foods availa...

East Side Dining, located in Chávez Hall at Stony Brook, offers a diverse and welcoming dining experience. Known for its significantly improved dine-in options, the restaurant provides a variety of all-you-can-eat choices at competitive prices. Customers appreciate the wide selection of foods available, including halal options, pizza, tacos, burgers, and a delightful buffet, alongside grab-and-go items. While some have noted occasional temperature inconsistencies, the overall consensus highlights the tasty food and plentiful options. East Side Dining is committed to inclusivity, offering a wheelchair-accessible environment, and identifying as both Black-owned and women-owned, while also fostering an LGBTQ+ friendly and Transgender-safe space. Payment options include credit and debit cards.

What Customers Say About East Side Dining / Chávez Hall

East Side Dining offers a variety of food options, including Halal, Kosher, and vegetarian. While some find the food mediocre and overpriced, others appreciate the variety and improvements, especially the dine-in segment. Cleanliness and food quality are concerns for some.

Popular Dishes

pizza (3) Starbucks burgers Island Soul omlettes Cocina Fresca mozzarella sticks French fries

Best For

Solo Dining Quick Bite Groups Casual

Tip: Check the menu online before going to ensure something you like is available, especially for dine-in.

Features

Accessible

What to see nearby

Charles B. Wang Center
A 153m

Charles B. Wang Center

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Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium
A 351m

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Explore the area around East Side Dining / Chávez Hall

East Side Dining / Chávez Hall is located in Stony Brook, surrounded by cultural and historical points of interest. Here are some of the most notable places nearby.

Other Points of Interest

  • Charles B. Wang Center (A 153m) — Asian American center at Stony Brook University
  • Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium (A 351m) — multi-purposes stadium in Stony Brook, New York

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Frequently asked questions about East Side Dining / Chávez Hall

East Side Dining / Chávez Hall is located at John S. Toll Drive, Stony Brook, NY 11794, Stony Brook.
Near East Side Dining / Chávez Hall you can find points of interest such as Charles B. Wang Center, Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium.
East Side Dining / Chávez Hall offers buffet;mexican;grill;barbecue;italian;pizza;deli;dessert;salad;international;american cuisine.
East Side Dining / Chávez Hall has regular opening hours. Check their profile for updated schedules.
East Side Dining / Chávez Hall offers the following services: dine-in, takeaway.
The most recommended dishes at East Side Dining / Chávez Hall based on customer reviews are: pizza, Starbucks, burgers, Island Soul, omlettes.
East Side Dining / Chávez Hall is ideal for solo dining, quick bites, groups, casual dining.
East Side Dining offers a variety of food options, including Halal, Kosher, and vegetarian. While some find the food mediocre and overpriced, others appreciate the variety and improvements, especially the dine-in segment. Cleanliness and food quality are concerns for some.
Check the menu online before going to ensure something you like is available, especially for dine-in.
267
Reviews

East Side Dining / Chávez Hall Stony Brook Reviews

3.5
267
5★
32%
4★
23%
3★
25%
2★
6%
1★
13%
Reviews (100)
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Tianyi Wang
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Aiyedun Monsur
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Irina Ardashnikova
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Kicheon Park
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HEX ME
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Fierce- Rithim
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DIANA MELAN
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Christopher Hibbert
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Ragib Mubtasim Khan
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Nick Dell'Aquilo

It's ok

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Syed Haider Ali Jafri

Very clean,neat

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Jacob Kadoe

good food, fast service

C
Chitoge Kirisaki

Not really good

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Rolling Hill Driving School Inc

Great food

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Carlos.r 21

Berry good

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Harrison Feusi

🤤🤤🤤🤤

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Tyler Bossous

I always enjoy my interactions with the staff here. They are extremely pleasant, friendly, and always willing to take the time out to talk, especially Judy! Sharing stories with one another has given me a different perspective of life and something to look forward to whenever I go to east side dining!

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Xigao Li

以前吃east现在口味刁了我天天west,但是还是推荐

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Robert Mackay

Friendly people,,, good food and good food choices

R
Robert Seaman

The fish is pretty good

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marcia hurlow

Nice choices for fast lunches

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Frederick Koo

This place has a wide selection of very good food. There is a lot of seating.

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Gregory Petrillo

Great selection of foods and dining styles. Seating isn't terrible either

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Rohan Sharma

One of the last few good retail halls with eastern food, burgers, and pizza. Also has dine in.

M
Ming Yu

Very nice! One of the best university dinning venues.

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Alejandro Rivas

My fav place to go and have breakfast! :D

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Jeremy Liu

A much of options and healthy eats! Love it!

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ido keren

very very crowded but good food

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israngie lozano

This was in Stonybrook and have lots of food options.

A
Abhilash Gadakh

Best place to eat on campus

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M C

Many GOOD choices of food.

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Jeffrey Speciner

My son Evan eats there.

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Nasif Quadir

Lots of great different varieties of food. Island Soul is the best out of all the cuisines in this dining hall

C
Chrizzy J.

It is campus food but it has better cereal choices than West Side Dining.

Albert Brucker
Albert Brucker

There was such a variety of food offered for every taste

Time Alter
Time Alter

East side has vastly improved since it has opened, especially the dine in segment, providing unique, delicious all you can eat for a relatively low cost compared to other on campus options.

Chris Wilson
Chris Wilson

Now the best dining hall on campus. They have legit halal food! Food is generally healthy and tasty. So much better than the state of campus dining a few years ago.

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Messina
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Sanjay Kapur
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Atharv
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Sora
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Gil Jesús
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Isabel

As good as it's suppose to be.

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Pratik Kumar

Cheap, lots of choices, lots of seating.

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Nudge Nudge

Lovely atmosphere.

김동현

good enough

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Harsha Vardhan Reddy

Not so good, No multicultural dishes

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akeru itsuno

food is normal taste, sometimes it is expensive if you dont have a meal plan

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Ahmad R. Pratama

The only place to provide Indonesian food in the area. If only it was not as expensive.

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Jorge Lam-Ki

Plenty of variety and healthy options at the buffet for $14.99.

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Husain Sodawalla

Lots of food. Not of all of them is tasty though.

Mujin
Mujin

Food cold sometimes but pretty good, much variety.

jasdeep singh Grover
jasdeep singh Grover

A very suitable place for students to dine in. Has Starbucks, Mexican, Pizzas, Buffets and snacks but not the cuisines like Indian, Continental etc.

sila
sila

Nice selection of foods from Starbucks, pizza, and halal to the marketplace that offers grab and go options.

Rae Oh
Rae Oh

Different stalls to buy food, pretty tasty. If you don’t have dining dollars you can also get takeout/packaged foods from Island Soul!

Jason Jason
Jason Jason

A jewel of fine dining within the Stony Brook Campus. Ranging from tacos to burgers and a deliteful buffet. East Dining is far superior than West Dining and the SAC with it's pentiful food options that include Kosher, Halal, and vegetarian.

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Tanzir Islam
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Lenny G. Ancona
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Michael Campana

Better than Roth...

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Sabir Ahmed

Ok

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Vincy Mathew

Meh

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Saurabh Sandilya

Average

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Catherine Huang

自助区的餐盘经常没洗干净,牛奶时不时断货,食物普普通通

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Shi Fen

餐桌沒清洁

구원

Worse than west dining and feel like overpriced but edible and has good desserts.

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Kenya Lewis

Ate at the Mexican Cucina. Had a bowl. The entire meal was cold.

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Mahdin Mahboob

Good on campus eatery with halal options 👍

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Sanjay Kapur

Wish food quality was better

Mandy Yu
Mandy Yu

Food is mediocre. The only good thing are the breakfast omlettes but they shut down at 10:30 instead of 11 which is nowhere to be found on the website. Please update the website and stop misleading students!

Jared Stern
Jared Stern

It's good food if your a student and can't afford anything else but don't come here by choice I promise you it ain't worth it

Yett D.W
Yett D.W

I am a student in this school, and I know West Side Dining is better than East Side Dining. But for me, I live in Irving College, which just beside East Side Dining. So it is super close for me find food. More than that, East Side Dining locates in the centre area of teaching buildings, which is convenient for every one to eat here. At last, East Side Dining is close to West Side Dining. Although it looks like u need to walk for a quarter to get there on the map, actually u just need to go across the parking lot next to Engineering Building and u will see the West Side Dining. It will take u no more than 7min.

Edison Sandoval
Edison Sandoval

Food is alright. Dine in is notoriously bad. Island soul (the Jamaican restaurant) is actually pretty good. Halal place used to be great but went completely down hill. Everywhere else is average

A A
A A

It's slightly overpriced, mediocre food. Dine-In is hit-or-miss. Make sure to check the menu online to ensure that something you like is available. Some of the late night options can be quite tasty. Cocina Fresca is pretty similar to Chipotle in style, though there have been no complaints of e. coli here. Overall, it's main benefit is convenience since it's on campus. But beware that it has the most health code violations of any location on campus.

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Lawrence Lin

West Side Dining is better

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Gabrielle Marks

The staff were curt.

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Unbeatable Farhan

Wak

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Ahmed Rafid

West side dining has more variety of food than east side.

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K P

Great food would recommend.

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Jacklyn Yeh

actually this place is rly bad

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Lex Wu

Genuinely abysmal food in the dining hall, and just okay food in the retail locations. Pizza is often soggy or stiff, vegetables aren't washed through in the salad bar, and I've found mold in the bread multiple times before. However, the service workers are doing their best, and the atmosphere is somewhat nice (if not a bit crowded during lunch and late night hours).

Nick Esteves
Nick Esteves

The food is only good during the week before classes and while the high schoolers do the tours.

Mike Nazar
Mike Nazar

Most of the food throughout the day is burnt or not nutritious at all. Burgers are either burnt or cold, French fries have burnt fry oil or something like that on them, food is generally tasteless. Not to mention overpriced. Fruit is good though.

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Zirong Li
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Brian Chen
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John Klecker

Terrible.

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Daniyal

Nothing is ever good

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Alex Spoon

Food poisoning

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Jo Smith

a gourmet experience

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Henry Wang

狗时

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Amar Persaud

Bad food. Food poisoning.

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Robert Bui

you should only eat here if you attend this college or you work here, otherwise eating at other places isn't such a bad idea

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Rhee

The type of foods served at this place should not be served to students. Avoid this place at all cost

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Brian Mahoney

You spend more time online waiting to pay then the time it takes to eat.

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Munthasir Islam

The Halal store has terrible food and everything is double the price it is in the city

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Anik Kundu

Tasteless food and way too expensive compared to the food quality.

Mateo Laforestrie
Mateo Laforestrie

This place has never heard of hygiene, work ethic, or seasoning, and it really shows. Not worth the price for meal plans. 👎😔

Joseph C
Joseph C

Bad food notorious for food poisoning, rude workers, and poor selection for vegetarians. I’d rather eat slop.

Kehang Lin
Kehang Lin

Their dishes are dirty and the food is not always fresh and clean. I do not understand that I have to pay thirty hundred dollars for the meal plan but their don’t allow me to use my own take out box, every time the to go box I used from this dining hall was greasy. I think this poor food hygiene will cause some students to be sick.

CJ Hamblin
CJ Hamblin

the fact that east side has a 3.5 boggles the mind. Food so bad its literally illegal, cullinart is getting sued for embezzling money from the university

alexa thiro
alexa thiro

the food here is genuinely the most putrid thing i would rather starve than eat here.. the cheese on the pizza is so gamey and oily. the mozzarella sticks, french fries (anything from the grill) tastes burnt. the cold cuts taste like literal rubber. they serve the same stuff every other day with limited options. the utensils , plates and bowls r FILTHY. everytime i eat here my body feels so gross. the east side store has airport prices. i cant believe i pay 29 thousand dollars a year to get served prisoner food

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buffet;mexican;grill;barbecue;italian;pizza;deli;dessert;salad;international;american
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🕐 Hours Today
9AM-11PM
Rating
3.5/5
💬 Reviews
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📞 Phone
+1 631-632-6000
🌐 Website
www.stonybrook.edu

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