Tercero Dining Commons — Restaurant in Davis

A lot of great options. The chefs do a wonderful job of crafting a menu of diverse and creative dishes. They serve you quickly and have great attitudes. I love how the cereal and milk is available all day for when I want to have it for dinner. Salad and fruit bar is always refilled in a timely matter, enduring us lots of fresh and healthy options. Mongolian Wok is always delicious. My favorite dishes are the mushroom corn quesadillas, pasta dishes, $10,000 chicken, and BBQ chicken pizza. They also had theme dinners (Harry Potter, Star Wars) which were super fun and the food was amazing! There's always open seats for my friends and I to sit in. Always lots of great conversations with good food here. The only complaint I have is that they're not super careful with foods that contain ingredients that people are allergic to (one of my friends has an almond allergy and had a few reactions during the school year because...

This place is amazing. They have lots of healthy food choices and vegetarian choices as well as always having pizza and hamburgers for the typical college pallet. There is a salad bar that includes lettuce, carrots, beets, fruit, peas, artichokes, and much more. Are usually two choices of soups and an area where you can make your own sandwich. You can eat any and all that you would like for the one very low price. The price depends if you were a student, staff, or visitor at the most you pay is about $12 I believe. There is fresh fruit and several choices for deserts including ice cream. The place is always clean. You do have to clear your own plate and put it in an area where it gets washed but that is how they keep the cost down in savings on labor and quickly keeping the tables clear for so many people eating there. Staff wipes the tables and refills all the food and prepares...

Tercero Dining Commons is peak UC Davis: overhyped, overpriced, and underwhelming. It looks sleek on the outside, but inside it’s crowded, chaotic, and bland. The food? Repetitive, low-quality, and barely worth what they charge. It’s less about feeding students and more about selling a campus “experience” that doesn’t exist.

Like everything else at Davis, it’s branding over substance. They push flashy campaigns while ignoring real feedback. Honest criticism gets shut down, not addressed. The focus isn’t on improving student life — it’s on maintaining the illusion.

Tercero isn’t a community space — it’s a cafeteria dressed up for a brochure. Another hollow corner of a campus that cares more about image...