Eating/Socialising on Campus
Whether you want a coffee while studying or meeting a friend, grabbing a snack on your way to your next lecture or a delicious sit-down meal with a glass of wine, we have the perfect venue for you, at whichever campus you study.
City Campus
The Studio at CitySpace – On City Campus we have a stylish space, providing all your culinary needs as well as a bar in the evenings with large screens within the CitySpace building, showing live sport and any other requested programmes. The Studio is open daily and offers everything from bottled soft drinks, beer, wine & spirits to delicious hot food from around the globe.
The Gateway Café offers a comfortable and luxurious dining area. The perfect location for a great tasting coffee along with a wide selection of grab and go items, at a pocket friendly price.
St Peter’s Campus
Reg Vardy Atrium – On the Sir Tom Cowie Campus, offers an extended seating area serving a range of hot and cold snacks and homemade cakes.
Prospect Balcony offers Costa coffee alongside a full range of sandwiches, snacks, cold drinks. Finally, the Riverside offers a modern and stylish area for you to sit and relax whilst enjoying tantalising food and drink, with a fantastic view of the River Wear.
Wearside View offers a limited range of grab and go food and drinks.
Sustainability
All of the disposables used at the University are provided by Vegware, which is a visionary brand, and the only completely compostable packaging company operating globally: their award-winning catering disposables are low carbon, made from renewable or recycled materials and can be recycled along with food waste.
We are committed to reducing food miles at the University and therefore we rely on as few deliveries as possible. To achieve this, we have our deliveries on one single truck that is able to deliver frozen, chilled and ambient products which allows us to reduce deliveries by up to 40%.