Forest Dining Hall — Restaurant in Bloomington

The pizza is first class. They keep making them every 20 minutes. This dining hall is known for its Asian selection, with rotating Indian, Korean, and Chinese. It's also constantly open between lunch and dinner. Asian station closes between, but stir fry is always open. Excellent fruit selection with melons, strawberry, grapes. Pancakes is available only in the morning. Lots of hard, soft ice-cream choices. Very limited options on weekends. Always available are ceramic plates. Hot and cold water available to drink. Although forest has less selection than mcnut, mcnut doesn't have asian food. The taste of the food is average, with its pizza being the best. Their advantage is their available hours,...

Best places here are definitely the The Clubhouse, the smoothie shop, and the place that sells the flatbread pizza. Other than that, Forest’s food court is mostly hit or miss. Stone Grill’s burgers are mid, but the philly cheesesteak from there is pretty solid. A Cut Above is boosted, Caliente is forgettable, and the pizza from the Italian place is probably the worst on campus (definitely get their pasta an garlic knots). The salad bar isn’t bad, but I was always a bit sus of the chicken. On the other hand, Fusion, and its “legendary” bip-n-bop, is bad. The food here is comparable to Wright, however the restaurants and cafeteria are probably the...

I am here for an Infosys Pathfinders workshop for teachers. This dining hall is designed to police your portion sizes, implying that you can't do it yourself. Staff are directed to dole out tiny servings on small plates and trays are not provided. This means you either have to juggle many small plates or make several trips. This is so frustrating and I've heard many other diners complaining about it. The only reason I gave two stars instead of one is because the chefs have been great about accommodating my dietary needs and most of the staff are friendly and share frustration at not being able to serve people the...