UC Riverside students and employees have several new dining options to choose from this fall, including free delivery from the Barn and a remodeled dining hall. Other programs launching soon include acai bowls at Scoops, a smart store at the Student Success Center, and the return of the Barn’s fall concert series. The Lothian Residential Restaurant...
UC Riverside is making a major push to reduce waste with the introduction of reusable meal containers at the Highlander Union Building, or HUB, the most popular campus dining venue. In recent years, UCR has taken several steps to make its dining venues and operations more sustainable, said Marcus Van Vleet, executive director of Dining and...
UC Riverside’s Dining Services won top prizes in three categories in national awards recognizing innovation and excellence in campus dining. The department won a silver award and two bronze awards from the National Association of College & University Food Services, which presented the honors at its national conference in New Orleans on July 17...
UC Riverside’s Lothian Residential Restaurant is closed over the summer for a remodeling project that will give it a fresh look and add more seating. The student dining hall, which serves up to 1,400 diners a day, typically closes during the summer with the larger Glasgow Residential Restaurant remaining open for the smaller summer quarter student...
After a six-year hiatus, Thursday Night Live returned as a weekly event for UC Riverside staff, faculty, and graduate students to socialize and relax after work. The series began October 23 and runs until November 13, offering the UCR community a chance to enjoy live music, presentations, and food at The Barn from 5-7 p.m. Additional dates will be...
UC Riverside students and employees can look forward to more dining options this fall with a new market, coffee vendor, and Indian and Mediterranean-focused cuisines at two locations among the changes. Diners will also see new offerings at favorite spots, such as milkshakes at the Scoops Ice Cream shop and Wagyu cheeseburger sliders at the Stable...
Walking through rows of citrus groves on a sunny April morning, about a dozen UC Riverside Dining Services employees picked fruit off trees and loaded it in crates into the bed of a truck. A little more than a month later at the Scoops Ice Cream shop at the HUB, Brian Alcantara, retail restaurant manager for HUB operations, ladled ice cream freshly...
Dessert lovers have another sweet treat to enjoy at UC Riverside: Dining Services is now offering custom-made cakes baked fresh on campus. The cakes are available to order online through Sweet Tooth Bakery, the name used for baked goods made at the Glasgow Residential Restaurant and provided to other campus dining venues. Allison Eagan, who...
A new café, an ice cream shop, and Asian street food are among the new campus dining options that UC Riverside students and employees can discover this fall. The campus will also be able to enjoy expanded hours at NOODS: The Noodle Bar and look forward to the launch of an online cake ordering service. Meanwhile, campus venues like the Barn and the...
I scream, you scream, UCR ice cream. Highlanders will no longer have to look far for frozen treats on campus. An ice cream shop with exclusive UC Riverside citrus flavors is opening at the HUB. Scoops Ice Cream Shop will open Thursday, Sept. 26, the first day of instruction for the fall quarter. Located in the food court, the ice cream shop will...
A chef with UC Riverside Dining Services won a gold medal in a national cooking competition hosted by the National Association of College & University Food Services. Tye Nielsen, a culinary manager for Dining Services’ catering division, faced five other finalists at the National Culinary Challenge at the association’s national conference in...
As UC Riverside marks Earth Month with a number of activities, the campus is taking more steps to meet its zero-waste goal. Facilities Services now diverts over half of the material previously sent to landfills to recycling and composting streams. A recent change in waste haulers has allowed the campus to recycle and compost even more material...
UC Riverside students will have a new dining spot to satisfy late-night cravings with NOODS: The Noodle Bar. The restaurant will open to the public April 1 at the Market at Glen Mor at the dining station formally occupied by the Sizzle burger and sandwich counter. It features an assortment of noodles and sauces in different Asian styles. Customers...
UC Riverside students can now help shape the menus at campus dining venues as part of a new student dining committee. Dining Services launched the Dining Advisory Committee last fall, inviting students to meet with department leaders and offer their opinions on what they like and suggestions on what they’d like to see at venues like the Glasgow and...
The Barn Stable held a grand opening celebration Wednesday, Jan. 31, to mark a successful launch of its lunch service. The UC Riverside dining lounge at the Barn had a soft launch for its full-service sit-down restaurant experience last fall. The venue also began hosting happy hour events including a weekly trivia night. The soft opening allowed...
Freshly squeezed orange juice is back for sale at the Scotty’s convenience store at the HUB. It’s one of several new food and beverage products that UC Riverside Dining Services recently added to its stores. Campus customers may have also noted some new sandwich, salad, and snack options this quarter. Mary Ann Person, operations manager for the...
UC Riverside students, staff, and faculty can look forward to more dining options, including a reopening of the Stable and new concepts such as a french fry station, an ice cream parlor, and restaurants specializing in noodles and kosher food. The Stable dining lounge at the Barn, which had been closed over the summer, will open on Oct. 16...
Over the last few months, UC Riverside’s Dining Services reopened Emerbee’s café, held its first paid concert at the Barn, and continued to expand dining options at the Barn. The spring quarter developments are a sign of how the department is getting back to full operations after a difficult couple of years, said Marcus Van Vleet, executive...
Emerbee’s is back in business serving honey-infused drinks and sandwiches to hungry Highlanders. The 600-square-foot café near the center of UC Riverside opened in September of 2019 but had been closed since March 2020 when pandemic-related shutdowns began. Emerbee’s began serving customers again in early April as part of a soft launch that...
UC Riverside has a new dining option at the HUB with the grand opening of the Halal Shack. The restaurant, which opened on campus Thursday, Jan. 12, is the first campus venue to feature an entirely halal menu. Inspired by New York City street food, the restaurant offers Middle Eastern and Mediterranean flavors and spices with American-style fusion...
