Where to eat during arrival weekend and Welcome Week

Food available on campus The University has a wide variety of catering outlets across Docklands and Stratford campuses, offering menus to suit all tastes, from hot and cold snacks to substantial meals.

On your first day, you will be provided with a free lunch at our Welcome Food Festival. A range of dietary options will be available, and we will do everything to meet your needs. However, if you have very specific dietary requirements and you are worried about not being able to obtain a meal, please feel free to bring your own a lunch just in case.

All outlets have varying hours of operation.

Docklands Campus Costa Coffee Costa Coffee is a fully franchised store located in the West Building on the Docklands campus. Fully trained baristas deliver hand-crafted speciality coffees made to your dietary needs or preference. The counter service offers hot drinks, iced coolers, sweet snacks and sandwiches.

The Edge The Edge Restaurant is a food court emporium, offering home comfort meals, meal deals, rotating guest street foods, a salad bar, jacket potatoes, freshly made soup and a live theatre station with chefs cooking food to order. It is open for breakfast from 8am.

Munch Café The Munch Café is located the SportsDock building on the Docklands campus and serves 53 Degrees Fairtrade coffee as well as iced drinks, sandwiches, sweet and savoury treats and grab-and-go snacks with nutritional and healthy takeaway options available. It is open from 8am.

The Pump House caters as a space for students and has a vegan / flexitarian menu. Open 11.00-16.00 Monday to Friday.

Starbucks Starbucks is located in the East building along the Atrium on the Docklands campus. It provides speciality coffees, Frappuccinos, iced teas, freshly baked pastries, sandwiches, paninis and delicious cakes for a morning, mid-morning or afternoon treat. It opens at 8am and meal deals are available.

Premier Retail Shop The shop is located in the East Building opposite the Hub. It is a one-stop campus shop for all snacking and household needs. Rollover hot dogs are available at lunch time and, in the morning, there are also freshly baked savoury pastries and sandwiches. Ready meals and refrigerated snacks are also provided.

Underground Bar The Underground Bar is based on the Docklands campus and plays host to regular comedy, karaoke, open mic, sports and party nights attracting DJs and bands from across the musical spectrum. It is a student meeting point for socialising and meeting new friends. It is located on the Docklands campus between main reception and Cyprus DLR Station and is open Monday to Friday and some weekends. The bar offers competitively priced drinks from draught beers to cocktails and all in-between.

Stratford Campus The Buzz Café The Buzz Café is located inside the Arthur Edwards building and serves Starbucks coffee. You can get your favourite speciality coffee, Frappuccinos, iced coffees and sweet and savoury pastries, confectionery, sandwiches, paninis as well as a range of grab-and-go foods.

Subway Subway is on the Stratford campus located in the Arthur Edwards building in the food hall along with the Green Restaurant and Buzz Café. It offers all the High Street options of a Subway – six-inch to Footlongs, crisp fresh salads and meal deals with great offers available with a Subcard or Subway app.

Green Restaurant The Green Restaurant is based on the Stratford campus in the Arthur Edwards Building and offers home comfort food, meal deals, soft drinks and grab-and-go food.

USS The Bean Machine Café The Bean Machine Café is a Starbucks outlet located at University Square Stratford in the reception area. It provides speciality coffee, Frappuccinos and sweet and savoury snack along with confectionery and soft drinks.

Upay is a global payments, loyalty and promotions platform, used in all the retail and hospitality outlets at UEL operated by UEATWELL (excluding the retail shop and Costa Coffee). The app can be used for both redemption and collections of points for use against future