Dining

Dining hall / cafeteria

Formal Hall

Formal Hall

The dining hall is a focal point for our College. It is used for both Formal and Informal dining. Members are invited and encouraged to take meals in College as often as possible, to aid in the fostering of the community spirit that is so important to our College life.

Formal dinners are subject to dress codes, timing and guest restrictions. Details of how to book and what to expect can be found in the Guide to Formal Dining and Guide to Formal Meal Booking pages.

Times and dates of meals

In the St Edmund’s Dining Hall:

  • Breakfast                                                 08:00 – 09:30   (Wednesday Only)
  • Lunch                                                      12.30 – 13.30   (Monday – Friday)
  • Dinner                                                     18.30 – 19.45    (Monday – Friday)
  • Saturday Brunch                                     11:00 – 12:30   (Saturday)
  • Sunday Lunch                                         12.30 – 13.30   (Sunday)

A hot meat and vegetarian/vegan option will be available during lunch and dinner.

Changes to the above times and dates will be notified on the weekly menu page of the website and in the Dining Hall.

Dietary requirements

The College will seek to respond to the needs of members with special dietary requirements.

Vegetarian and vegan options are routinely available, while other special dietary requirements should be discussed in the first instance with the Catering Manager, who will try to prepare appropriate meals if this can reasonably be arranged (though the College cannot guarantee to fulfil all individual requests).

If you are on a special diet because of medical or religious reasons, you are encouraged to speak to the Catering Manager who can prepare a menu plan for you.

The College should be informed if a member has a serious food allergy; this should be discussed immediately on arrival with the member’s Tutor and with the Catering Manager, who will be able to advise on the ingredients and labelling of College meals.

 

College Catering Charges

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING CATERING CHARGES

The College is going to change the way students support the catering service at St Edmund’s. Kitchen Minimum Billing (KMB) is to be replaced by a Catering Credit (CC). The key difference to the new charge is that unused CC at the end of each academic year can be refunded.

CC is included in your invoice at the beginning of each term and that money is then added to your meal card account. This provides two important benefits:

  1. The ability to book into Formal Dining events using the Dinner Booking System, which requires a balance on your meal card account to make a booking
  2. The benefit of not paying VAT on sales which is applied to debit / credit card sales.

Once used up, the meal card account can be topped up simply using the St Edmund’s catering app. Catering App – My St Edmund’s (cam.ac.uk)

Your meal card account provides a method of easily using the various catering services at St Edmund’s.

  • You have access to our informal offering of the cafeteria and Edspresso café free of VAT.
  • You are able to use the meal card account for Formal Dining events including Formal Halls (Tuesdays), Guest Nights (Fridays), and a variety of other events organised by the College designed to provide a community for students to enjoy.

At the end of Easter Term, unused meal card balances over £15 can be reclaimed (details on how to reclaim will be provided in due course).