Bruin Café plates up a variety of new entrees
By Janae Yip
Jan. 13, 2016 7:41 a.m.
Bruin Café recently released a new dinner menu, which includes new entrees such as chai-spiced roasted chicken with sweet potato mash on the side and barbecue pork ribs served with four-cheese macaroni and cheese.
These dishes are available on a rotating basis during weeknight dinner periods, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Three employees from UCLA Dining Services developed the menu to offer a larger variety of meal options, especially to vegan and vegetarian students, said Jeff Berman, a Bruin Café general manager and senior food services manager, in an email.
He added that the cost to produce these dishes fit within UCLA Dining Service’s budget. Each entree costs students one meal swipe.
Jeanette Fields, a first-year applied mathematics student, said the new menu experiments with flavors that are uncommon in meals from other restaurants on the Hill.
Charles Wilcots, UCLA Dining Services associate director, said Covel Commons is currently expanding their Mediterranean cuisine, and Rendezvous will begin to offer additional items such as Japanese udon noodles and sopes, a Mexican dish.
He added dining officials plan to add new entrees to other dining restaurants’ menus as well, but did not specify when they would be available to students.
