Residental Dining Locations

Dining at Benjamin Franklin beautifully blends tradition and modernity. Indulge in a variety of updated elements in the servery, highlighted by a daily featured bowl station, gourmet pizza (Benjamin Franklin is one of 5 dining halls with a stone hearth pizza oven), and soft-serve frozen yogurt machine. Ramen, bibimbap, salami and honey pizza – what more can you ask for? The dining hall’s grand ceiling, chandeliers and large communal tables greet you upon entering the dining room, while pocketed alcoves provide a quieter atmosphere for a study break. Memorable experiences and first-class dining await!

Berkeley is consistently a crowd-pleaser, especially as one of 5 dining halls with a stone-hearth pizza oven. There’s truly something unique to please every palate. Take your seat and enjoy dining beneath the open timber ceiling. Mark your calendars: you won’t want to miss Berkeley’s culinary traditions – including the elaborate Yale-famous “Thunder Brunch,” Lunar New Year Celebration, and the Bishop Berkeley Birthday Dinner for fellows and seniors. “Life tastes better in Berkeley!”

Dining at Branford is an inviting and satisfying experience. Take in the large, vaulted hall and grand fireplace as you make your way to a variety of delicious and healthy specialties within the servery. Mark your calendars: you won’t want to miss Branford’s culinary traditions – including Cheese Night, Fabulous Pancake Fridays, “Fruit of the Week” Night – and more!

Davenport’s striking two-story dining room features broad-wood floors, ornately carved wooden wall details and a coffered, barrel-vaulted ceiling from which hangs a beautiful Waterford chandelier. The college’s mascot, a 400-pound carved redwood gnome donated by a former alumnus, guards the dining hall. The experience of dining at Davenport is welcoming and unforgettable – including the custom of singing “Happy Birthday” to all students and staff! 

The dining hall at Ezra Stiles offers a striking departure from the design of more traditional college halls and is dominated by grid-like rafters, contemporary lighting, and stone and glass verticals that soar 30 feet.

Expect exceptional food from our talented team when dining at Ezra Stiles & Morse – come be part of the Herd! The two college dining rooms share an open kitchen servery at one end, complete with a large brick hearth oven, rotating grill, and wok station. Stilesians are proud to gather here to share meals, study breaks, and events.

Grace Hopper’s dining hall contributes enormously to day-to-day life for its residents. “Hoppers” and “Hoplites” enjoy their meals in a dining atmosphere which boasts columned arches, rich wood-paneled ceilings, and two fireplaces – one with the Hopper crest, the other with a portrait of Roosevelt “Rosey” Levander Thompson.

Dining at Hopper is an experience with the warm comforts of home! Our team will go above and beyond to know our guests by name and the special requests they may have. Hopper is known for a variety of over-the-top pop-up events. Hopper hosts their own “Fall Fest” in the courtyard with candy, caramel apple dipping and pumpkin carving. And we can’t forget the famed Hogwarts night!

The eponymous residential hall at Jonathan Edwards (JE) boasts an Elizabethan banquet hall with a high, timbered truss ceiling, an alcove entrance topped with Victorian fretwork and oak-paneled walls, and two large fireplaces that are the only working ones among the colleges. Dining at JE is a unique experience: it’s a fun, happy environment with lots of laughs shared between students and staff. Enter the hall’s servery to discover a plentiful selection of beautifully cooked, healthy and comforting foods.

Morse’s dining hall boasts approximately 40-feet floor-to-ceiling windows that bathe the dining room in light during the daytime, and illuminate the courtyard and outdoor dining patio – which boasts a quietly babbling water feature.

Expect great food from our talented team when dining at Morse & Ezra Stiles! The two college dining rooms share an open kitchen servery at one end, complete with a large brick hearth oven, rotating grill, and wok station. Morsels are proud to gather here to share meals, study breaks, and events. From San Gimignano Night in September (inspiration for the architecture of the colleges and Eero Saarinen’s home town) all the way through final exams in May, we want Morse to be your home.

Pauli Murray dining hall’s grand ceiling, chandeliers, and large communal tables greet you upon entering the dining room, while pocketed alcoves provide a quieter atmosphere for a study break.

Dining at Pauli Murray beautifully blends tradition and modernity. Indulge in a variety of updated elements in the servery, highlighted by gourmet pizza (Pauli Murray is one of 5 dining halls with a stone hearth pizza oven) and soft-serve frozen yogurt machine. Ramen, bibimbap, salami and honey pizza – what more can you ask for? Memorable experiences and first-class dining await! 

The Pierson dining room is a slight departure from many of our traditional dining halls with its bright-white wood paneled walls. Piersonites dine in a space that captures Georgian Revival style with large arched clerestory windows and walls lined with replicas of New England church pews.

Dining at Pierson is a memorable experience. Upon entering, you’ll find a light and bright servery with large metal and glass frameworks displaying pictures of the Early Yale Years. Pierson’s traditions include The Inferno, an annual Halloween dance with much costumed pageantry; the Tuesday Night Club (a weekly lower-court gathering); and Pierson Day, held each year on the last day of academic classes, when the community gathers for a spring festival involving food and outdoor games.

Built in the English Tudor style, Saybrook’s dining room features a dark wood-vaulted ceiling, two-story banks of leaded windows, and the famous Saybrook Arras, an impressive needlepoint stage curtain featuring the college’s grapevine motif on the dining hall’s back wall.

Dining at Saybrook is a heartwarming experience. Saybrook’s servery boasts extensive gluten-free offerings, surprise “pop up” selections like guacamole or trail mix – and more. Saybrook traditions include the annual Saye and Sele Day, a picnic lunch and carnival event in the Spring; a midnight breakfast program during exam week; and the infamous “Saybrook Strip,” performed at the end of the third quarter of Yale’s football games. Say What? SayBROOK!

The Silliman dining hall is spacious and airy, with high ceilings and tall, arched windows, and gold chandeliers, with a beautiful Steinway concert grand piano reserved for use in recitals.

Dining at Silliman is a memorable experience. Silliman’s large servery boasts delicious & flavorful cuisine served in a warm and inviting dining room. Some of Silliman’s best-known traditions include movie nights in the courtyard, a ski trip to Vermont, apple picking in the fall, and a series of events over Halloween week — including an elaborate haunted house in the Head of College House.  

The Timothy Dwight (TD) dining hall is modeled after a traditional New England Town Hall, with weathered, hand–hewn ceiling beams and trusses, paneled walls, large circular chandeliers, and furnished with long maple tables and black captain’s chairs. 

Dining at TD is a welcoming experience. Take in the grandeur of the hall as you make your way to a variety of delicious and healthy specialties within the servery. Longstanding traditions include the annual TD weekend — with BBQ dinner on Friday, a crawfish boil on Saturday, and a widely popular (but unofficial) tailgate party held on the morning of the Yale-Harvard football game. One of TD’s best-known traditions is the snowball fight with rival college Silliman, that it holds each year on the night of the first snowfall.

Modelled after King’s College, Cambridge, Trumbull was designed in the Collegiate Gothic style, with a Norman-style dining hall that features carved stonework, intricate leaded windows and seating alcoves along its walls.

Dining at Trumbull is a thoughtfully engaging experience. Take in the intricate details of the dining hall as you make your way to a selection of carefully crafted, mindful & delecta-BULL menu creations. Longstanding traditions at Trumbull Dining include the annual Pamploma Day, Fellows Holiday Celebration, and many exciting pop-up events.