Dining

Eat fresh, explore new flavors, and grab meals to go from Dining Services. Order from the grill or enjoy a famous pub shake from the Piasa Pub. Get snacks and drinks for late-night study breaks from the College Store.

Dining Room

• Vegetarian entrées

• Salad bar

• Pasta Station

• Burger Top – Custom built burger with your choice of five different burgers, six buns and twenty-two different toppings

• Macstravaganza – Custom built bowl of Mac and Cheese, choice of three different cheese sauces and twenty-two different mix-ins.

Grab and Go

• Naked Juice and canned drinks, fruit, and soda 

• Clif Bars and Luna Bars 

• Uncrustables 

• Homemade sandwiches 

Frozen Meals

• Amy's Kitchen (vegetarian and vegan meals) 

• Evol (burritos and frozen meals) 

• Hungry Planet 

Have a favorite recipe from home? Dining Services will try to add it to their lineup.

Piasa Pub

With a diner-like atmosphere and a stack of board games to play, the pub is a great location to get your favorite grilled foods, meet and hang out with your friends, and finish off every night with a famous Pub Shake. Everyone has a favorite!

College Store

At the College Store (known as the C-Store) students can pick up snacks and basic school supplies. Find out what else the C-Store has to offer here.

Nearby riverside towns Grafton and Alton offer a range of dining from independent cafés and restaurants to familiar chains.

Student favorites:

• Elsah General Store—a great selection of fun, local sodas and pastries within walking distance

• Pearl Café—Thai

• Riviera Maya or El Mezcal—Mexican

• Maeva’s, Germania, and Post Commons—great local coffee shops

• Shivers, Whole Scoop, Grafton Fudge and Ice Cream—delicious ice cream treats

• Chic N Pig—southern BBQ heaven

• Bakers and Hale—supplied by local farms

• Joe K’s—local breakfast and lunch joint

• Brown Bag Bistro—specialty sandwiches, soups, salads, appetizers and desserts

• Loading Dock—BBQ and grill on the Mississippi

• My Just Desserts

• Mister Donut

Plus, all the chain restaurants you know and love (e.g. Steak ’n Shake, International House of Pancakes, Fazoli’s, Panera Bread Co, and all the pizza) can be found in Alton just 15 minutes away. Or, you can find an abundance of restaurants from 24-hour diners to South Grand’s ethnic eateries in St. Louis, a 45-minute drive away.