Cafeteria at Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center Review
Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:58Over in our foodblogging forums, we have a new review of the Cafeteria at UCLA’s Santa Monica Medical Center. Sounds like a prescription for a bargain:
“The Cafeteria� (as it’s know to those who frequent it) is on the first floor of Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center which is on the corner of Wilshire and 16th in Santa Monica. It’s a bit hard to find from the 16th St. approach, I’d recomend coming in the 15th St. entrance as it’s much more of a direct route and parking is more available on that side of the building. Hey, you don’t want to read about getting there, you want to read about eating there!
The Cafeteria has good food at great prices. You can buy a hamburger, fries, and a coke with a $5 bill and still have change. Besides hamburgers they have a salad bar, soups, pizza and Chicago style hot dogs (M-F only). Breakfast is an even better deal with eggs, bacon and juice for $2 and change. The staff is friendly and helpful and there are plenty of health care proffesionals to chat with. The drink selection is great, they have your typical soda pops like Coke and Diet Coke, but also 4 flavors of Fanta, which was news to me. Coffee? How about Starbucks buster! Desert? Check mark, plenty of deserts in the display case for you.
Anyone know how this stacks up to other hospital food around town?
By Jonah (see more of his posts). Jonah is the founder of la.foodblogging and also created Digesty, a food blog aggregator and Cheww.com, a spam free foodblog search engine.
Jeff says:
March 23rd, 2006 at 10:24 am
My dad being a doctor, I must admit that hospital cafeterias are surprisingly worth it. Of course, they mostly offer burgers, fries, etc., but you can’t beat the prices. It must be because they want to keep the docs and nurses happy so they can focus on saving people.
VeggieGal says:
March 24th, 2006 at 10:00 am
I remember reading on someone’s blog about the amazing cafeteria in a Glendale hospital - I think. It’s all very healthy, high-quality food, and you can get a veggie burger, a side and a drink for less than $4. I wish I could figure out where!