Leo J O’Donovan Dining Hall

I have been to a lot of colleges, and even the world of college dining Halls (Gold Standard being Notre Dame), this is pretty terrible.
1. Cleanliness — seriously, there were flies floating in the drinks area
2. Yes this is all you can eat for about $ 10 (oh and it is cash only — no card — nuts) — and they have generous portions, but no one is going to eat all that they put out.
3. The lines — wow seriously not enough stations.
4. The food was blah (even for a college dining Hall — probably barely a step above military dining halls)
The good things about this is that:
1. Does have a great view
2. I like the vast amount of ice cream options
3. I do appreciate that they try to use local ingredients

Everything tastes like shit. Do not eat unless you’ve been starving for five weeks. DO NOT eat!!!

Really good. It is a a big efffing buffet.

Like Rebecca, I wish I could give Leo’s 0 stars. I’ve never eaten such bad and unhealthy food in my life until being forced to dine at Leo’s.
Most days after dinner I would get really horrible chest pains. These chest pains disappeared after I didn’t have to eat here anymore.
I saw feathers in chicken dishes on more than one occasion.
Leo’s was responsible for poisoning a large amount of students in the fall of 2008. So many students were in the hospital from the poisoning that midterms for many classes had to be rescheduled. Unbelievable.
The Grab&Go section is even more unhealthy and horrible than the food inside but they don’t let you take out food from inside and even used to check my bag. Absolutely no hope of being healthy.
Finally I just started only consuming yogurt for every meal. Everything else made me very sick.
If you are visiting the campus, avoid Leo’s. DO NOT EAT HERE. Instead, there is a nice sushi lunch special for $ 10 at Epicurean (
) near Leavey.

Ah the Dining Commons, what can I say, it’s food. Came here on a Saturday night with a friend after being swiped in. Was pretty disappointed in the selection offered here. For anyone that’s not an undergrad, this place isn’t worth it, skip this, go to epicurean or down M Street. For undergraduates, I’m sorry that they force you to buy the meal plan.
Wouldn’t pay to come here, ever.

Very poor quality. Very expensive and Aeromark treats their employees terribly.

I honestly think that Leo’s deserves three stars, but the 5 star rating is just to average out the 1 star and 2 star reviews.
INTRODUCTION
Now, I’m not going to tell you that the food at Leo’s is amazingly wonderful or that the customer service will make you feel like a king/​queen, but for what it is, Leo’s gets the job done, and I would think compared to most university dining halls, it does it better than most. Georgetown University is small enough to have only one dining hall but is large enough that the dining hall has quite a good variety.
SHORT VERSION
The Bad
It’s expensive, quality’s not top-​notch, there are hours when the hot food isn’t served, and some made-​to-​serve dishes are slow to be served, and you’ll get tired of it.
The Good
It’s a conveniently located dining hall and there’s plenty of choices to pick from, including made-​to-​order food and a wonderful assortment of desserts.
LONG VERSION
First, the bad. Now, I’ve got a few complaints about Leo’s, which is why I believe it deserves only 3 stars:
1. It is horridly expensive. Georgetown is a buffet, so viewed in this respect, its prices are not unreasonable if it is treated as such. When I go to a regular buffet and pay so much for a meal, I just pig out and eat as much as I can. In the interest of health, I don’t do that every time I go to Leo’s. There are also times when I do grab and go, which are basically prepackaged meals you can take on the go, and they are definitely not worth the ~$ 10 price tag you pay per meal.
2. You’ll get bored of it eventually. When I first ate at Leo’s, I thought the food was pretty good, and there was plenty of choice. You’ll eventually have tasted everything there is to taste, and by the end of your first semester with Leo’s nothing should really surprise you. But there’s really nothing Leo’s can do about that unless it gets a new supplier every year/​semester (Hah!)
3. The food is not A+ material (more like B/​B-​). There are certainly exceptions, every now and then, but overall the quality is definitely not as good as a decent restaurant, but I’ve never come across a buffet below $ 20 with better quality food.
4. Inactive hours. I suppose it makes sense that there are times when none of the hot foods are served, but come on, this is a school and there were times when I had to literally modify my schedule so that I could eat during Leo’s hours.
5. Cooking speed. This has mostly to do with the Diner portion of Leo’s, which serves burgers and omelettes, they’re a little slow sometimes.
The good. Yes, Leo’s has a few good qualities about it:
1. If there’s one thing going for Leo’s, it’s that there’s quite a good amount of choice, and there are plenty of made-​to-​order dishes, from burgers and omelettes to stir-​fry and pasta.
2. It’s a dining hall. A place to socialize, study, etc. and it has wi-​fi.
3. It’s close. I mean it IS on-​campus, and fairly close to most on-​campus housing (sorry, Darnall residents).
4. The dessert options are fantastic. If Georgetown can do their food like they do their dessert, there would be nothing to complain about. Frozen yogurt (vanilla or chocolate) for those watching their health and plenty of great ice cream choices for the rest of us! There’s also all sorts of pie, cakes, cookies, muffins, cupcakes, and other sweet delicacies that make it really damn hard to keep one’s weight in check.

LOL, I love how Leo’s is on Unilocal.Wish I could give this place 0 stars. Can’t wait to bitch this place out!
If hell was on earth, Leo’s would be it. If hell had a gatekeeper, Anna at the Grab&Go station would be it. I can smell their nastyass salty burnt dried-​out chicken from all the way across campus. How do you screw up grilled chicken? Unfathomable. You can make awesome grilled chicken with a George Foreman!
Their hours blow. When I’m out of class, they have no food. When I’m in class, they’re serving lunch/​dinner. I have found more creatures in my food here than I have seen at the National Zoo. I have found woodchips in my Grab&Go salads. All of their Grab&Go sandwiches are extremely salty. I have gotten food poisoning a number of times from cooked meats to the salad bar. There is straight-​up dirt and who knows what else on many of the veggies in the salad bar. The fruit is rarely fresh and rarely the color it’s supposed to be. The oranges are green, the apples are waxy and bruised, the bananas are either rotting or green, the pears are bruised. I never go to the juice or water machines anymore; I found a bunch of small flies in my OJ and a big one in my water. The flies can apparently go through the vents in the machine and infiltrate the juice. They often serve expired milk in the milk machines and expired soy/​almond/​rice milk in the coolers. I had definitely swallowed some expired almond milk last semester and wound up throwing up the whole night before my Chinese test.
The labeling of vegetarian/​vegan foods is often incorrect. The nutrition info on the Grab&Go items is often incorrect; the PB&J sandwich went from 300 calories one day to being 700 calories the next. The sandwich looked exactly the same. Riddle me that. The only delicious things here are the unhealthy things (ex: Chicken Finger Thursdays, heated up chocolate chip cookie, etc).
And the website is ridiculous, featuring pictures of fresh veggies and fruits, succulent cuts of meat, fresh sandwiches, etc. BITCH PLEASE! When I saw this, I laughed so hard because it is the biggest lie ever. The power of advertising (e.g. lying with pictures).
Thank you so much, Leo’s, for failing health inspection every year, giving us norovirus and a host of other food-​borne illnesses, robbing me of the nutrition and quality of food I need to get me through a tough day of classes/​studying, and producing this nasty stench that clings to my clothes forever and ever. I call it «Leo’s Stank.» To anyone who’s ever been here, you know what I’m talking about!
And thank you, GU, for making us buy this shit for TWO years in a row. $ 4,000 and two years of shitty food later, I’m SO GLAD that I am off the meal plan and never have to eat here ever again!
I hate Leo’s more than I hate any other place in this whole entire world. Georgetown is a great school, but I love food and eating here every day was enough to make me consider transferring elsewhere.

Wow, what a huge selection. Why did none of it ever QUITE satisfy?
The sophomore year food poisoning wasn’t helpful.
Could do better, Georgetown. Kudos to the staff, though. The staff do their thing well.

A wonderful variety of fruits, vegetables, and salad dressings, cookies, cheeses, and children’s cereal… but somehow lacking in quality… somehow, TOO much variety. The pizza tastes alright, but you soon realize that something’s not right… this cannot be real mozzarella.
If you have to come, come on Thursday. That’s when Altagracia and her fellow Marriot-​employed lunch ladies serve up chicken fingers by the dozens. Is that a bone in my mouth? No, it’s just a bit of grissle, snuck into your chicken finger. There is nothing to worry about at Leo’s.
Unfortunately, there is no love going into this food. About the best I can recommend is the cinnamon toast crunch and milk, and maybe some slices of lunch meat. The omelette maker or the stir-​fry chef does a good job now and then, but now it’s Monday and they’re not at work: you’re eating the Pizza again… the bread has gone stale, the grilled chicken dry… the only upside is the fries.
My post-​graduate diet of peanut butter and jelly and bananas is healthier than any of the eating choices I made in college. Coming down the stairs to the lower level, you may notice the sequestered training table for the Georgetown football team. What are they feeding them? Chicken Fingers? Vegetarian Lasagna? No wonder our football team sucks; there’s nothing good for them to eat.