Lunch at School

One of my favourite things about school was lunch time, for obvious reasons. College doesn't have an official "lunch time" but if you've got a gap and an empty stomach, you can have a culinary adventure. Now in high school I was a pretty regular hot-lunch kid.(Meaning I bought my lunch at school) Sometimes I would take the time to make myself something the night before and bring it to school, but since my school didn't have microwaves, you could only bring food you were happy eating cold.

Hunter does have a cafeteria, its in the West Building. To be quite honest with you all - don't waste your money there. The food is dismal, the prices are outrageous, and its just no fun. So then where do you eat??? I like the Roadside Grill. Its a food truck that sits right outside Hunter every day. You get food similar to what you could get in the cafeteria- chicken nuggets, burgers. But you can also get gyros and chicken over rice, they have good shish kabobs, decent falafel, and the prices are standard for cart food. There is a pizza place on 3rd Ave that isn't half bad, and a few doors down from that is a Chipotle. Two blocks south on Lexington Avenue is a deli that makes very good egg bacon and cheese sandwiches in the mornings.

 For those of you who choose to bring your lunch with you (I did that today!) Hunter's cafeteria does have a microwave and utensils you can use. You can also get hot water from the cafeteria to make cup noodles or instant mac'n'cheese.

 Okay so now you have food, you just need somewhere to eat it. The cafeteria does have tables and chairs, but getting a seat is sometimes tricky. This is a school of 15,000 after all.

Now if the weather is nice out, my recommendation is to eat in Central Park. Its only a few blocks West, its green, its pretty, and its peaceful. And you get to send pictures of you eating lunch in Central Park to all your friends and family.

If you haven't got the time to luxuriate in the park, you can eat on one of the balconies. On the eighth floor of both the West and East buildings, there are balconies that Hunter students can access. They give really impressive views of the Midtown skyline and the area surrounding Hunter.

 And, in the event of bad weather, there are bridges over Lexington Avenue that give spectacular views. We actually have the only sky bridges that pass over Lexington Avenue. When the school was built is was a humongous controversy about it, but thankfully they managed to save them. There is one on the seventh floor, and two on the third floor.