Brandywine Commons

I can't believe I forgot to rate this place..This dining commons is my 2nd favorite (Lot 5 is a close 1st). The variety of food is always delicious and made to perfection each time. The grill serves excellent, juicy, and tender chicken breasts. Additionally, the beef, grilled cheese, patty melts, fries, and every thing is always consistently fresh. They have two sides for drinks, VERY delicious soft serve ice cream (sometimes even green tea!!) and the salad bar is always green and tasty. I usually got chicken breasts and some salad last year. Get a hard boiled egg too; it's worth.Dessert sections eh. Just the soft serve in my opinion. Sometimes brownies or cookies.

Food is aight. Service is aight. Ambience is terrible don't play music please, the entire experience will be saved.

Like the Brandywine dining hall in the Middle Earth housing area. Maybe 2 months old as of 11/19. All u can eat. Sorry to say music did not thrill wife, but 92 year old mother in law liked it a bit. Thankfully, easy to park with handicap placard. Helps to be hungry. $12.50 flat fee for brunch at 2:30 pm on a Sunday. Included lunch, breakfast, and dessert items. Nice salad bar, pizza, Stromboli, garden burgers, fries, soups, smoothies, coffee, fruit drinks, pancakes, eggs, sausage, hash browns. Liked the posters and maps from Middle Earth, signs to places in Middle Earth, second breakfast area (see The Hobbit). Lots of trees on campus, many bike users, handy paved paths. Fun to people watch - walked around campus after. Pretty idyllic setting - and pleasant service.

The food here is terrible. Very very overpriced and very very low quality. At the same price you can get really any option across the street. Also most of the reviews for this place are like from 10 years ago. It should not just be a means to an end and even if it was, it would be better than it is now. There's no love in this food or attention. This place is just a way for the school to profit off of the students who are already being exploited and paying way too much for things that are worse than they would get at an alternative place.

Food is expected to be bad. Meat is dry and some are over salted. Stations are always closed for some reason. Not sure why lunch always has more options. And it's always the same food every week.

The Brandywine is kind of a new dining hall for me and it has become one of my favorite spots for lunch already. I think it is amazing that they have a bunch of outdoor tables in the dining hall and the staffs are super nice.

Incredible food choice! The versatility of brandywine chefs are showcased as there are fine dining options and the ability to get greasy pizza as well. The range of the dining in this dining hall is PHENOMENAL. Walking in here at least 3 times a day never gets old. The surprise behind what dishes they are serving each day is the only thing giving me reason for staying alive on this godforsaken planet. The smell of the dish drop is so exhilarating, I wish it existed as a candle. One of my favorite pastimes is emptying the salt shakers every time I come in to have a meal. I love trying to get my favorite drink, and being presented with a surprise EVERY TIME! Sometimes it's sweet tea, sometimes it's just water, sometimes it's unknown juice, and you know what? It is all worth the surprise as it reflects the unknown miracle of the meaning of life. I might dislike every single option they have, so I'm forced to go to the deli, but the workers at the deli work with such a sense of urgency that cannot be beaten anywhere else. I can get a sandwich in at least 20 minutes! Finding the occasional hair in my food delights me as I now have floss to last me at least a week! Additionally, there is ALWAYS seats available inside brandywine. You can always count on finding one by watching someone until they're done eating, and then sprinting to take over their seat. Lastly, one of my favorite things about brandywine is finding everyone's leftovers on the table you just sat at. If I went to every single table, and gathered every piece of lettuce left behind, I would have enough to make my own salad! How incredible is that?! Anyways, brandywine is a once in a lifetime experience, meaning you only want to go there once. Thank you brandywine! You've changed my life

Like any college dining hall, don't expect too much of the food. The food is well prepared, and the staff is always friendly. Honestly, that is all I can ask for. The menu changes often, and they have daily specials that are fun to try. It's a great place to stop by for lunch when you don't feel like walking a few more steps to Pippins.

I loved being a UCI student, and I loved living in Middle Earth even more! Brandywine is a dining spot right between where Middle Earth ends and Ring Road begins - I think only former/current UCI students will know what I'm talking about.Popular for their soup in bread bowls and their custom pasta stations, BUT it's kind of small and the ventilation isn't that great so the common complain was that going to Brandywine will make you smell like no other! In class, I'd always know if someone went to Brandywine for lunch cuz you can smell it on their clothes.

Whaaa......?Students eat here?Students eat here every day?I don't know whether, when I was a freshman, I lived in a dorm with better food, or maybe when I was a freshman I had totally different standards for food. Probably a little of both. But I stand by the stamp of inedibility I branded upon nearly everything I tried today.Gyros? Cracking, peeling dry pitas stuffed with... oh no wait, not stuffed, because you can't stuff ONE limp and cardboardy sad skinny strip of beef in anything. Plus drenched lettuce and tomatoes and a microscopic teaspoon of yogurt... I lost my train of thought here.Chicken pho? Soggy rubber bands drenched in weird bouillon with canned chicken. Yep - canned. You can taste it. There were about two carrots and some brown bean sprouts hanging around too. Also included were the only jalapeños known to man to not taste like anything.Lentil soup with ham? Salty salt with salt - the end.Fries? They expanded in my mouth and almost choked me going down. I tried to wash the mass down with liquid, but:Strawberry pineapple smoothie? OK, this was the weirdest one. I actually watched them make it because they ran out right before I got to the front of the line. It consisted of a blender full of green foamy water, plus one scoop each of strawberries and pineapples. The end result tasted like a hybrid of Crystal Light, five hundred sugar cubes, and fruity mop water.Call me the snobbiest snob that ever snobbed but I even had a not so mini meltdown in front of surrounding undergrads. Hopefully none of them were my students. Although now I have more patience for bad student work when I see it, knowing that THIS is what is "fueling" them.