I am one of those people that need a hot meal for lunch, and ideally a bit of sunlight to an fro. One of my goals is to eat at all the colleges in Cambridge, either lunch or dinner. I am slowly making my way through the colleges, and after three years in Cambridge I have Christ, Clare, Emmanuel, Magdalene and Sidney Sussex left on my to do list.
A while back I compiled a list of which colleges you as a University Member could go to and pay cash. If you want to try a new place for lunch then perhaps this list could be of interest. Let me know if I have missed a college that lets you pay cash.
- Pembroke College (cash or pre-charged card)
- Downing College (cash)
- Selwyn College (cash)
- Fitzwilliam College (cash)
- Churchill College (cash)
- Robinson College (cash)
- Girton College / Wolfson Court (cash)
- Queens’ College (cash)
- Murray Edwards College (cash)
- St Edmund’s College (lunch coupon from porter’s lodge)
- Lucy Cavendish (weekend brunch?)
- Homerton College (cash)
- Newnham College (cash)
- Clare College (cash? – unconfirmed)
Yesterday we did something a bit different: a Three College Lunch. It all started as a joke over lunch a couple of months back but somehow the idea stuck. With me were Ellese Cotterill and Stephen Kissler.
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For something like this to work you need to make sure you do not get stuck in any unnecessary queues. I guess it helps that term just ended. We began our lunch with a starter at Queens’ College, which opens their lunch serving at 12:30. Then from there to King’s College for the main course. We rounded off with a nice dessert at Trinity College that closes their lunch at 14:00.
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Queens’ College, King’s College and Trinity College were a pretty great combination. It felt like we had a sort of Royal Theme to this lunch. To be honest, we could probably have done a fourth college as some of them start serving lunch at 12, which makes me wonder, how many colleges can you eat at in one day?
– Johannes
Here’s my list so far: http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ssb22/buttery.html
Unfortunately my link had to change; my list is now at http://ssb22.user.srcf.net/buttery.html