Rachel Carson/Oakes Dining Hall
6 College Eight Service Rd, Santa Cruz
(831) 459-3547
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We love Rachel Carson Dining! This is our go-to, all you care to eat, salad / deli bar, international foods, pizza bar, desert bar, with organic and gluten-free options dining hall. This place is nicknamed by us as Hogwarts. You can use a credit card here or get dining bucks called banana bucks or Flexi Points because they do not accept cash. Kids under 12 are $8 and everyone else is $16 for entrance to dining hall.
The food is fine. We have to use plastic or wooden utensils and paper plates because the dish machine is broken. Eating here is quite wasteful because of this. The soft-serve is also almost always broken or just not maintained, the coffee often runs out fairly quickly.
Vegetarian options: They're okay. It's pretty much either food with meat, cheese, and eggs, or vegan. It's like this at every dining hall on campus.
Vegetarian options: They're okay. It's pretty much either food with meat, cheese, and eggs, or vegan. It's like this at every dining hall on campus.
Shout out to college 8 dining hall. Staying open late night for all the Westside students has helped me very much. They now regularly have 4 stations open compared to 3 last year. It's a long walk to the dining area, but worth it
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