West Side Dining — Restaurant in Town of Brookhaven

The chefs and the people who work there are very nice and professional and the facility is clean and modern but thats not what I'm paying for. All the other positive reviews didnt take a lot of things into consideration, this place at most gets 3 stars. I understand there isnt enough time to produce enough for thousands of students in a matter of time, but oh boy a lot of the cooked foods are disgusting and atrocious. When a single student pays over 2,500$ for food per semester, there is an expectation that the food is cooked properly and that a student can consume other options. The best thing here is the pizza which fresh and delicious. The salads and sandwhiches are also fresh and delicious but those are the cold foods. Most of the heated meals are completely disgusting. Chickens and beefs arent heated enough so when you chew on them they feel like you are biting on a tire. Sauces such as tomato and alfredo sauces convert into solids when you put it on your pasta. When they try to make Asian food whether chinese or indian, its basically a DIY experiment gone wrong where they pick random ingredients and mix it together and call it day. They also mass produce french fries, hot dogs and hamburgers to the max. Who the hell is going to eat that stuff everyday for 120 days or 4 months. Either lower the price for the meal plan that way you pay less for very low quality food, or if students are going to pay thousands of dollars, up your game and increase the quality of the food by a lot. Staff is very professional, helping and kind...

The food variety is good and it is displayed very nice but when the quality is trash, what is the point? Unfortunately, the only concern is mass producing and increasing speed, meanwhile the quality is far below the expectation even from a buffet. Two years ago it was good (considering the price, I would have give it 3-4 stars) but in the last two years increasing the price and decreasing the quality consistently made this place an absolute zero (too bad the minimum score is 1 star). I strongly believe the person who is in charge in this place has a medical condition that cannot taste food, otherwise there is not any other...

If I could give this less than one star I would. This is so disgusting I would often go whole days without eating because eating food from here is only marginally better than starving. You might think, oh he's just picky, or oh he's just elitist, no, this is just that bad. I've eaten food from every corner of the world and I can definitively tell you that I would rather have to scavenge the fruit from the campus fruit trees and survive that way then eat the collection of soggy cardboard and rat tendons that they serve at this...