East Side Dining

Stony Brook, NY · Cafeteria

Rating
3.5/5
★★★★☆ 3.5
Reviews
20
Rank in Stony Brook
#52
of 62 restaurants
City Percentile
8%
rating percentile
Address
East Side Dining, John S. Toll Drive, Stony Brook, NY 11794
Phone
(631) 632-6000
Website
www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/dining/locations/east-side-dining.php
Status
Opens soon · 9 AM

East Side Dining is a restaurant located in Stony Brook, NY. It is one of 62 restaurants listed in Stony Brook. Its 3.5-star rating is slightly below the Stony Brook city average of 4.2 stars. There are 10 photos associated with this location.

About East Side Dining

East Side Dining offers a dine-in (all-you-care-to-eat) venue that is nut-sensitive, the Emporium Market and several retail restaurants. Dine-in offers hot breakfast, salad bar, soups, pizza, pasta, grill station, deli, desserts and soft serve ice... More

Hours

Saturday9 AM–11 PM

Customer Reviews

★★☆☆☆ 2.0 Lex Wu · Feb 2026

Genuinely abysmal food in the dining hall, and just okay food in the retail locations. Pizza is often soggy or stiff, vegetables aren't washed through in the salad bar, and I've found mold in the bread multiple times before. However, the service workers are doing their best, and the atmosphere is somewhat nice (if not a bit crowded during lunch and late night hours).

★☆☆☆☆ 1.0 Kehang Lin · Sep 2024

Their dishes are dirty and the food is not always fresh and clean. I do not understand that I have to pay thirty hundred dollars for the meal plan but their don’t allow me to use my own take out box, every time the to go box I used from this dining hall was greasy. I think this poor food hygiene will cause some students to be sick.

★☆☆☆☆ 1.0 alexa thiro · Mar 2023

the food here is genuinely the most putrid thing i would rather starve than eat here.. the cheese on the pizza is so gamey and oily. the mozzarella sticks, french fries (anything from the grill) tastes burnt. the cold cuts taste like literal rubber. they serve the same stuff every other day with limited options. the utensils , plates and bowls r FILTHY. everytime i eat here my body feels so gross. the east side store has airport prices. i cant believe i pay 29 thousand dollars a year to get served prisoner food

★★★☆☆ 3.0 Yett D.W · Sep 2019

I am a student in this school, and I know West Side Dining is better than East Side Dining. But for me, I live in Irving College, which just beside East Side Dining. So it is super close for me find food. More than that, East Side Dining locates in the centre area of teaching buildings, which is convenient for every one to eat here. At last, East Side Dining is close to West Side Dining. Although it looks like u need to walk for a quarter to get there on the map, actually u just need to go across the parking lot next to Engineering Building and u will see the West Side Dining. It will take u no more than 7min.

★★☆☆☆ 2.0 Mike Nazar · Oct 2022

Most of the food throughout the day is burnt or not nutritious at all. Burgers are either burnt or cold, French fries have burnt fry oil or something like that on them, food is generally tasteless. Not to mention overpriced. Fruit is good though.

Accessibility & Amenities

✓ Wheelchair Accessible Entrance ✓ Wheelchair Accessible Parking Lot ✓ Wheelchair Accessible Restroom ✓ Wheelchair Accessible Seating

Services

CafeteriaFood court

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