Cafe 3

Daniel Tyler

The food was excellent!! Everything was fresh, variety of great healthy choices, soups, salads, vegetables, and several main courses that were prepared well. I'd recommend Cafe 3 to anyone.

Jaime Zendejas

My favorite dining by far! Great food and plenty of vegan/vegetarian options for those dietarily inclined.

At Café 3, you get what you pay for: a decent meal and a nice place to eat. The food isn't world class, but it's usually pretty good. I'm perfectly happy to eat here on a regular basis.

Cafe 3 is my favorite dining hall on campus. Keep in mind that I'm unable to visit dining halls like Clark Kerr and Foothill due to their distance, but I've found that it's better than Crossroads and Golden Bear Cafe. Although Brown's offers good food, it isn't all you can eat, leaving me hungry in the end. Cafe 3's buffet-style operation, friendly staff, and cozy atmosphere make it the perfect environment for my study sessions. And when it gets a bit crowded and loud, there are outside seating options where it isn't as much of a problem. When the harsh bright lighting of Croads makes me feel like a bug on an examination table, Cafe 3's ambient yellows and earthy browns makes me feel right at home. Although the food options can be somewhat limited and repetitive, it's still overall very good. In the mornings, they have plenty of plant-based foods, but when lunch or dinner come around, it can be a bit more difficult to find something if you are vegan. The plant-based foods leave something to be desired, but they are rather filling. Dessert options for vegans can be very limited sometimes; and although they'll always have something available for you, it might just be an oatmeal cookie, which isn't very appealing compared to the pies and cakes that others get to enjoy more frequently than you. The saving grace of Cafe 3 for a vegan is the salad bar, stocked with all kinds of veggies. My go-to salad, if you'll withhold your judgement of my tastes, consists of lettuce, corn, black beans, beets, cucumber, and chickpeas.

It's pretty good for a dining hall. Especially good if you're vegan or vegetarian. They keep the station with the meat separate which is nice. The employees are much nicer than the ones at crossroads. It's not that big though so sometimes it can be hard to find a seat.

Though much smaller in space and more limited in food selection than Crossroads, Cafe 3 has a convenient location for Unit 3 and Blackwell Hall residents. The quality of the meals is comparable to Crossroads and other dining halls. I love that salads are always an option for lunch and dinner, and that there is usually some kind of meat available for these meals. I dislike that breakfasts are generally extremely limited in variety (always eggs), though there are some passable options such as cereal, yogurt, and cottage cheese always available.

Gabriel Classon

At Café 3, you get what you pay for: a decent meal and a nice place to eat. The food isn't world class, but it's usually pretty good. I'm perfectly happy to eat here on a regular basis.

Snehamay Bhattacharya

The food is good, but it is overpriced and not as good as what you'd get at UCLA or even UC Santa Barbara.

Nick Kisel

Though much smaller in space and more limited in food selection than Crossroads, Cafe 3 has a convenient location for Unit 3 and Blackwell Hall residents. The quality of the meals is comparable to Crossroads and other dining halls. I love that salads are always an option for lunch and dinner, and that there is usually some kind of meat available for these meals. I dislike that breakfasts are generally extremely limited in variety (always eggs), though there are some passable options such as cereal, yogurt, and cottage cheese always available.

Sarah B

It's pretty good for a dining hall. Especially good if you're vegan or vegetarian. They keep the station with the meat separate which is nice. The employees are much nicer than the ones at crossroads. It's not that big though so sometimes it can be hard to find a seat.

Amazing food. They prepare many things. Café 3 was not crowded when I went. It can be loud. The café has it's days when the food can be bad.

Same deal as my review for Croads when it comes to the lows being pretty low and the highs being incredibly good. I'd say this place is definitely better than Croads, though there are fewer options. It's not the most vegetarian friendly, but there's stuff to have, and a lot of times I'd say it's enjoyable.

Manthan Shah

Same deal as my review for Croads when it comes to the lows being pretty low and the highs being incredibly good. I'd say this place is definitely better than Croads, though there are fewer options. It's not the most vegetarian friendly, but there's stuff to have, and a lot of times I'd say it's enjoyable.

Jeff

Amazing food. They prepare many things. Café 3 was not crowded when I went. It can be loud. The café has it's days when the food can be bad.

They have ALWAYS given me this weird look when I ask for anything vegan. Vegan friendly? Not so much if you’re actually vegan.

The google description for this place is "fine dining". Wow. Worst of the UCB dining halls, normally a bad and low quality selection of food.

Mostly garbage food. Also very unsanitary. Milk is often spoiled so watch out before you enjoy that cereal youre forced to eat because everything else is innedible. The eggs served in cafe 3 are fondly known as "laxative eggs," because the fiery trip to the bathroom after a cafe 3 brunch is second to none.

Anyone who thinks Cafe 3 is good is dealing with a case of Stockholm Syndrome. You are not eating Cafe 3: Cafe 3 is chewing you up, spitting you out, and leaving you to starve, sad and alone in the courtyard. I am physically repulsed by the sight of pasta at this point. If you have dietary restrictions, Cafe 3 is a rough experience. Cafe 3 brunch is kinda gas though, and so are the waffles at Breakfast.

Dessert is good because all the desserts are not made in house but besides that, there are very few highlights at Café 3. Quality of food is very consistently terrible and presentation makes you lose your appetite. Out of my seven times dining at this establishment, only once did I enjoy my meal. That being said, the dining experience you receive at Crossroads or Clark Kerr far exceeds the standards here at Café 3. tl;dr: go to Crossroads or Clark Kerr

Alok Thakrar

Anyone who thinks Cafe 3 is good is dealing with a case of Stockholm Syndrome. You are not eating Cafe 3: Cafe 3 is chewing you up, spitting you out, and leaving you to starve, sad and alone in the courtyard. I am physically repulsed by the sight of pasta at this point. If you have dietary restrictions, Cafe 3 is a rough experience. Cafe 3 brunch is kinda gas though, and so are the waffles at Breakfast.

Alvin Shuh

Dessert is good because all the desserts are not made in house but besides that, there are very few highlights at Café 3. Quality of food is very consistently terrible and presentation makes you lose your appetite. Out of my seven times dining at this establishment, only once did I enjoy my meal. That being said, the dining experience you receive at Crossroads or Clark Kerr far exceeds the standards here at Café 3. tl;dr: go to Crossroads or Clark Kerr

NeflixNChill

Mostly garbage food. Also very unsanitary. Milk is often spoiled so watch out before you enjoy that cereal youre forced to eat because everything else is innedible. The eggs served in cafe 3 are fondly known as "laxative eggs," because the fiery trip to the bathroom after a cafe 3 brunch is second to none.

Alexandra Feldman

The google description for this place is "fine dining". Wow. Worst of the UCB dining halls, normally a bad and low quality selection of food.

Alex M

They have ALWAYS given me this weird look when I ask for anything vegan. Vegan friendly? Not so much if you’re actually vegan.

Honestly, the chubby asian guy with black glasses(on gbo week). During GBO WEEK IS TERRIBLE. He is calling names and SHOUTING WHAT IS YOUR GROUP! I was just walking to exit. He has the audacity to shout at students FOR NO REASON

Staff likes to tell students no smoking when they smoke at that same spot with a bunch of cigarette butts on the ground.

I already gave a little insight into the horrors of Cafe 3 in my review for unit 3 as a whole but I believe it deserves a review on its specific page as well. Cafe 3 is not far off from eating food straight out of a trash can in downtown LA. You may think it’s edible at first glance but once you try to eat it, it’s like chewing on a rock that taste likes puke from the depths of Hell. It just doesn’t make any sense since they serve the same dishes as Crossroads which are decent there but at Cafe 3 they work wonders to make it taste as bad as possible. If you can even make it to the dining hall props for you because there are so many flies at the entrance of unit 3 you’d think you’re in cow country. Don’t waste your time waiting in the outrageous lines for food you can’t swallow. Hope this reaches as many students as possible.

Michael Mulligan

I already gave a little insight into the horrors of Cafe 3 in my review for unit 3 as a whole but I believe it deserves a review on its specific page as well. Cafe 3 is not far off from eating food straight out of a trash can in downtown LA. You may think it’s edible at first glance but once you try to eat it, it’s like chewing on a rock that taste likes puke from the depths of Hell. It just doesn’t make any sense since they serve the same dishes as Crossroads which are decent there but at Cafe 3 they work wonders to make it taste as bad as possible. If you can even make it to the dining hall props for you because there are so many flies at the entrance of unit 3 you’d think you’re in cow country. Don’t waste your time waiting in the outrageous lines for food you can’t swallow. Hope this reaches as many students as possible.

Katy D

Staff likes to tell students no smoking when they smoke at that same spot with a bunch of cigarette butts on the ground.

Nikki bob

Honestly, the chubby asian guy with black glasses(on gbo week). During GBO WEEK IS TERRIBLE. He is calling names and SHOUTING WHAT IS YOUR GROUP! I was just walking to exit. He has the audacity to shout at students FOR NO REASON