Farm Table Dinners
Farm Table Dinners, offered a few times a semester, are held in various scenic spots on campus. Twelve interested students are randomly selected through social media. The popularity of the free multi-course meal, which begins with an amuse-bouche (a single-bite hors d’oeuvre) and ends with dessert, has tripled since the dinners first started in 2018. The chefs interact with the group while they plate the courses, and students ask questions and learn about organic, locally-sourced ingredients.
Food Trucks
Food trucks come to campus several times a month in the fall and spring semesters. Tickets can be purchased with Food Dollars, Meal Dollars, Phoenix Cash, debit, credit card or cash. Bulkogi, The Shrimp Truck, How Bout Burger, El Jefecito, Ultimate Egg Roll, Las Gringas and Lawrence & Perry BBQ are just a few of the options offered.
Pop-Ups
Through the academic year, Elon Dining hosts impromptu pop-up tables on campus that give students the opportunity to try a variety of products. From fall-themed salads in a jar to tacos, peaches and cream, coffee and biscotti, nitro matcha latte shots topped with oranges, popcorn bars and caramel apple and hot cider, students love stumbling upon them after classes.
Restaurant Takeovers
Throughout the year, chefs from local restaurants takeover a station in one of the three dining halls and serve up fare from their menus. Whether it’s Indian or Mediterranean delicacies, bagels or rice bowls, students enjoy the culinary invasion and get to interact with a local chef. It’s a partnership that brings the local community on campus and introduces students to various cuisines available in the surrounding area.
Teaching Kitchens
Do you want to learn knife skills or how to make a buffalo chicken season salad? Have you ever tossed dough in the air and made your own pizza? Need help making overnight oats? Elon Dining chefs share their culinary expertise with students, providing interactive cooking demonstrations. Students create the dish with the chefs, enjoying good food and laughter.
Chef’s Tables
Elon Dining’s chefs create special menus centered on dishes they love that they feature at a chef’s table on occasion. From three different nut butters and homemade jams served up on bread made locally to Elon’s Bison Bliss, a sandwich made with locally sourced bison, smoked goat cheese, kale, caramelized onions and rosemary on scratch-made focaccia, these creative dishes add additional pizazz to the dining menu.