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Food in halls

Find out about your food or catering options while staying in UCL accommodation including menus, meal cards and special dietary requirement information.

Food in UCL Halls

UCL uses CH&Co as their catering provider.

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Both our catered accommodation halls - Ifor Evans Hall and Ramsay Hall - offer a variety of food, including vegan, vegetarian, fish and meat options. 

Breakfast and evening meals are provided Monday to Friday and bunch is provided at weekends. You need to make own arrangements for other meals at the weekends, on Bank Holidays, College closure days, the Christmas vacation (three weeks) and one week during the Easter vacation, as no meals are served at these times. 

Breakfast

Served 7:45-9:30 Monday-Friday, Students can enjoy a continental breakfast or a full English breakfast, all served with Fairtrade Union Coffee from our artisan roasters in east London, tea and a range of juices.

Brunch and Dinners

Enjoy delicious and healthy soups, a wide variety of hot meals, a salad bar and much more. On weekends there will be themed brunches including waffle stations and burrito bars. Brunch served 11.30-13:30 Saturday & Sunday. Dinner served 17:00-19:00 Monday-Friday.

Speciality meals

TBC

See our sample menus

Meal Cards

A meal card will be issued for students in Ifor Evans Hall and Ramsay Hall on arrival. You will be asked to show your meal card to the front-line team member at each meal time.

Meal tickets for guests

Meal tickets for guests can be purchased from the site offices and will be billed through your Portico account.

Please be aware that you are not allowed to share your meal card with non-resident under any circumstances. 

Sustainability

Food Made Good Award

CH&Co are part of the Sustainable Restaurant Association community. They are dedicated to making every meal served as sustainable as possible. 

Their three-star Food Made Good Award is the culmination of a year of ambitious progress and innovative change across their kitchens.

Our provider, CH&Co, offers:

  • Free range eggs
  • Red Tractor certified meat (including halal chicken and beef)
  • MSC certified fish

No disposables 

In order to minimise the negative impact on the environment, no disposable plates or cutlery are used in the dining halls.

Find out more about CH&Co sustainability commitments and our promise 

Packed dinner

If you know you are going to miss your dinner, you can order a packed dinner the day before. Please give the team at least 24h notice. Your packed dinner will include: 

  • sandwich or baguette
  • bag of crisps
  • fruit
  • confectionary item
  • a drink or bottle of water

Please follow the steps below to order your packed dinner. 

Order in advance

To ensure availability please order your packed dinner at breakfast the day before you need it. 

Complete order book

Place your order by adding the following details to the order book in the canteen (servery).

  • Date packed dinner required
  • Your full name
  • Your room number
  • Dietary requirements (vegan, allergies etc)
Collection

Collect your order on the requested day at breakfast. Remember to bring your meal pass. 

Allergies

Allergies are taken extremely seriously so every meal prepared on site has an allergen note. If you suffer from any allergy, please advise the CH&Co Team personally. 

Meat sourcing and Halal meat

In line with Company Policy along with the majority of catering facilities, supermarkets and restaurants in England, all the chicken and lamb that we use in our kitchens is pre-stunned before it is killed. The Muslim Council of Great Britain has agreed that pre-stunned meat can be deemed as Halal as long as a blessing/prayer is said at the time of killing. Download the PDF to read the statement in full.

Copies of our chicken & lamb Halal certificates are available to see from the Catering manager should you wish to do so.

Feedback

If you have any feedback on your dining experience at Ifor Evans Hall or Ramsay Hall, please email foodatUCL@gatherandgather.com.

The Gathered Table 

Every term CH&Co organise classes designed with UCL students in mind and taught by leading Industry Chefs from the Gathered Table. These classes aim to strengthen your cooking techniques, teach important life skills, tips and tricks around how to cook on a budget, the importance of cooking nutritionally balanced meals and how to make sustainable environmental food choices. You will be notified of this opportunity as a resident through email, but please note that these classes have limited space and are very popular.