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THE UNIVERSITY CANTEEN

The University has refectory services in its all buildings. They
provide a range of meals including vegetarian and other specialties
prepared from fresh food on the University premises. There are several
canteens, refreshment rooms and a cafe to suit different tastes. Many
University students have their meals there, especially their midday meal,
at lunchtime.
Our canteen works on the self-service basis. This means that
there is no waiter or waitress to wait on us, and we get the dishes
ourselves. There is a counter along one of the walls. First the customers
get a tray, spoons, knives and forks. At the beginning of the counter they
help themselves to bread. Then they move on and get the hors- d'oeuvre,
the first and second courses and the sweet. At last they come up to the
cash-desk. The cashier looks at the tray and adds up the bill.
In our canteen table d'hote is usually cheaper than a la carte,
when you order each dish separately from the menu. Sometimes we dine
table d'hote, but as a rule we choose different dishes.
For hors- d'oeuvre we can choose from salad , sauerkraut, herring
or kipper. Of all possible soups, I prefer cabbage soup or beetroot eoup
with sour cream. My friend usually has noodle soup or rice soup with a
meat pie. Our canteen has a great variety of vegetarian, meat and fish
dishes; namely, fried and steamed fish, roast and boiled meat, chops ;
beefsteaks, rumpsteaks, rissoles, chicken, goose, duck with fried, boiled
or mashed potatoes, buckweat, rice or boiled vegetables, pancakes with
cream or jam, as well as other dishes.
For sweet, we can take cranberry jelly, stewed fruit, tea, ice-
cream or fruit.
When we stay at the University quite late, we go to the refresh-
ment room to have a bite to eat. It can be a sandwich and tea, milk,
coffee or cocoa.

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