Student Reviews

• Adalea Khoo

  The dining halls as of 2022 do label vegan entrees and vegan desserts, but the labelling is often wrong. Multiple times there has been food that is clearly meat or contains meat labeled as vegan. Sometimes they have tofu scramble in the mornings, but its not consistent. Often the breakfast options are potatoes, oatmeal and fruit. Lipton hall is the best for vegan food and the other dining halls are severely lacking. Lots of good vegan food around campus, would not reccomend staying on the meal plan or getting more than the minimum.

• Tanner Nelson

  NYU is so ridiculously accepting and diverse…but really only in regards to human rights. A lot of people are vegetarian, so those options are readily available (though sometimes they are not really vegetarian…like including parmesan or gelatin candies or whateva). And every actual NYU staff or volunteer usually goes above and beyond to make vegans feel comfortable at school-sponsored events, etc. But sometimes the dining hall staff are less knowledgable. One grill worker incessantly asks me what kind of cheese I want on my vegan burgers. Additionally, most students think veganism is a little extreme. But at least they know what the definition of it is. (unlike the grill worker lady/cheese advocate) Luckily most of the dining halls will label their pre-made meals as vegan or vegetarian, but some are a bit lazier with this. This photo is from Hayden dining hall that does a great job at labeling. This is their cute little vegan dessert section which makes me happy (though it is next to the outrageously large regular dessert section). Although this hall has a vegetarian/vegan friendly “meat-less” monday, they also have some weird ass fish market friday where they showcase two giant severed fish heads that are horribly disgusting to look at….but it could be worse..like cow heads or something? Maybe not. Overall, once you’ve mastered the dining halls, it’s relatively easy to get good tasting, fresh vegan food. They’ve got all the ingredients, you just have to be a little creative sometimes.

• Ariana

  NYU’s vegan options vary pretty vastly between dining halls–at Third North on bad days, your best option is a hummus sandwich, salad, and soy milk; while on the other end, Hayden always has full vegan meals in addition to sandwich/salad stations. NYU certainly has room to improve in the vegan department, but hey, so does the rest of the world. They’re doing pretty well compared to other schools, for sure.