Campus Center
The Blue Wall Café
Fall 2010 Hours of Operation
9:00 AM – 11:00 PM, Monday – Friday
8:00 AM – 9:00 PM, Saturday & Sunday
A perennial favorite among UMass students, faculty, and staff alike, serves an extensive menu to accommodate a wide variety of tastes. In addition to full-service grill and deli facilities, the Bluewall Café serves several types of pizza made fresh daily and served hot and ready when you are. For those who crave change and excitement as well as nutrition, we are proud to offer the Lemongrass Noodle Bowl Station. This exciting addition to the line up allows patrons to select ingredients from a plethora of fresh vegetables, meats and sauces, which are then sautéed to order for a taste that’s out of the ordinary and out of this world. But that’s not all, the same array of fabulous soups, which draw hungry diners to The Hatch, can be found at the Bluewall Café when The Hatch is closed.
The Hatch
Fall 2010 Hours of Operation
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM, Monday – Friday
Located on the ground floor where the Student Center and the Campus Center meet, The Hatch eatery offers a variety of theme stations for the hungry lunch crowd. Options include Tamales – great Mexican food that’s good for you, The Noodle Bowl, offering up a variety of tantalizing Asian dishes, and Sunset Strips, serving chicken so tasty it would make even the Colonel’s mouth water. In addition, The Hatch offers 8 different soups which rotate daily in order to provide the freshest and most exciting possibilities to the University Community.
The Market Place Café
Fall 2010 Hours of Operation
8:00 AM – 3:00 PM, Monday – Friday
Café Talesai: features authentic, fast but upscale Thai cuisine. Vilai and Prakas Yenbamroong, a mother and son team, have owned and operated Talesai, the Art of Thai Cuisine, for 23 years, located on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. They have brought the exciting Talesai dining experience to the UMass campus. From Pad Thai to Thai Sloppy Joes, all priced around $5.95, it is the best Thai food around. Let’s break rice together.
Pitas 101: Pitas 101 is home of fresh made to order pita sandwiches of all types. Whether you crave turkey, chicken, beef, seafood or vegetarian pitas, we have what you like. Salads are also available. Every pita sandwich or salad is made to order and you will love it with the first bite.
For the breakfast lover and luncheon crowd, The Marketplace Café continues to serve a full-grill selection of breakfast items including omelets, bagel sandwiches and English muffins, as well as burgers, fries, onion rings and chicken sandwiches.
French Meadow Café
Fall 2010 Hours of Operation
7:00 AM – 7:00 PM, Monday – Friday
Located on the main concourse of the Campus Center, French Meadow offers natural, organic, and sustainable foods. Choose from Salads, Paninis, Fresh Cookies, Locally Baked Pastries, and so much more. French Meadow serves People’s Organic Fair Trade coffees and features a variety of specialty coffee beverages and organic teas.
Café Pura Vida
Fall 2010 Hours of Operation
7:00 AM – 7:00 PM, Monday – Friday
Located across from the Bluewall Café it is serving delicious Fair Trade and organic coffees, teas, and cocoa. 100% of the resources of this company are used to provide hope for at-risk children living in coffee growing countries. Customers will like the coffee and the cause that it supports. Plus one will find an all-day selection of croissants, pastries, donuts, cookies and beverages for those moments when time is of the essence. Pura Vida coffee, is changing the world, one cup at a time. For more information about this company go to www.puravidacoffee.com .
Freshens
Fall 2010 Hours of Operation
10:00 AM – 7:00 PM, Monday – Friday
Located across from the Bluewall Café and right next to Pura Vida in the Campus Center, Freshens Smoothies offers fresh blended, vitamin fortified and Kosher certified fruit smoothies. Ice Cream is also available.
