Hughes Dining

This is really the only place on campus that does a high quality fast food style burger. The blue cheese burger with fried onion was absolutely fantastic. It might just be the best burger under $ 7 in all of Tompkins county. They also have very good BBQ entrees. The steak cut fries are just OK though. Unfortunately this gem of a location does not do much business, and probably not enough to warrant the operational cost of such a massive kitchen. Unless a miracle happens, Cornell’s best kept secret will shut down soon. Eat here while its still open!

Coffee RUB Burger is the best burger at Cornell. Hands down. Hands Down again. Keep them down. This is the shit that nobody has ever heard of either because they are too lazy to go down there to the law school or because they have never heard of it due to its relatively isolated location.
Waffles are gigantic and you can get fruit with them too which is tasty. Breakfast sandwiches are nice too and relatively big for how much they cost. Eggs are great and everything tastes fresh even though it doesn’t look the freshest.

Eh. I was severely disappointed with how ordinary Hughes was. I was honestly expecting something really amazing, but it was alright. The food is a bit too greasy for breakfast food, and the waffles are a bit too much. A decent place to get food if you’re too lazy to go far from collegetown for brunch.

WOW. This is easily the greatest Big Red Bucks place in Cornell. Located on the Law School wall facing Collegetown, a trip to this sweet little dining room will make you stagger out in the happiest way possible. There are two reviews on the breakfast already, but it is the lunch here that got me addicted. The grill has the largest selection of any on campus and every single option is tasty tasty, no lie. Mike the grill guy is awesome. He has a huge arsenal of rap and hip hop CDs, each of which gets him hopping and cooking like a pro. The price is more than fair for each item, as you get a lot of deliciousness for what you pay. The best deal is easily Dagwood’s big brother, a humongous sub loaded with meat for just $ 9. Eating this is its own experience. An attempt to finish it in one sitting attracts the attention of both Mike and the equally-​entertaining cashier as they egg you on on your tough task. Overall, a trip to Hughes is guaranteed to quench your hunger and it would be a huge error for any Cornellian not to come here.

the law school kids probably didn’t like us undergrads raiding their dining hall, but hughes dining is not-​to-​be-​missed. i tend not to like pancakes, but the chocolate chip pancakes there were so delicious. quality! sometimes i’d bring my little plastic container of pancakes to lecture and people would give me (or my pancakes) rapacious eyes. eyes and hands off!
they also had pretty great wraps and raps! you totally forget you’re in the basement of the law school with the old school boombox blasting beats.

This is the somewhat hidden a la carte dining hall in Cornell’s law school building. I used to treat myself to breakfast here every week or two while I was there as an undergrad. Not only is it the best french toast I’ve ever had, Hughes Dining got me into rap. Every time I hear «What’s the Difference» by Dr. Dre featuring Xzibit and Eminem, I think fondly of Hughes.