For any college student living in the hostel, the mess is one of the first places to get familiar with.
Metrolife speaks to hostellers from different colleges of the City to find out whether they avail of their mess services at all and if there is enough variety to make them go back there every single day.
In Dayananda Sagar Institutions, for example, the hostel mess isn't always appealing to the students. "The tea, coffee and breakfast are awesome here and lunch is average. But dinner is a big problem. Even if there's a lot of variety in the food, it isn't always tasty or nutritious," shares Suraj Singh, a fourth-year biotechnology student.
According to him, the cleanliness is also something to frown at. He says, "The plates and glasses are not cleaned properly and you can spot chunks of food on them even after they are washed. In the name of 'washing', they are probably just dipped in a tub of water."
On the contrary, there are other college hostels where the students are quite content with the food on their plates. Students in the IIM-B hostel are more than happy with their mess food.
"It's excellent for the money we pay for it. There are options for vegetarian and non-vegetarian food everyday," notes Jai, a student here.
"Most of the common items are fresh. They have a system where they give an item for dinner, rather than a thali like they give for lunch. This means that for dinner, you'll get a burger one day, puri the next day and dosa the day after. Breakfast is the same on all days and one can have dosas, idli-vada, scrambled eggs, cornflakes etc. The only downside is that if you take extra eggs or a bowl of mutton for lunch, the mess guy marks you in a register and it comes in your mess bill," he laughs.
When it comes to staying in a hostel, one of the main issues that everyone keeps talking about is the mess facility. But at Christ's University's Jonas Hall hostel facility, the fact that there isn't a mess is surprisingly not an inconvenience to the students staying there.
"We go out to new restaurants everyday, which is more often than anyone staying in a PG or an apartment would. In fact, people staying in PG accommodations don't like the food there and end up eating out with us 'Jonas Hallers' anyway and they might as well not have a mess," notes Bineetha Reddy, a first-year student of BBA finance and accounting.
"There are a number of restaurants nearby — Forum Mall is just across the road and Koramangala has quite a few places to try out," she adds — confessing, though, that she has had food poisoning quite a few times from eating out so regularly.
Metrolife speaks to hostellers from different colleges of the City to find out whether they avail of their mess services at all and if there is enough variety to make them go back there every single day.
In Dayananda Sagar Institutions, for example, the hostel mess isn't always appealing to the students. "The tea, coffee and breakfast are awesome here and lunch is average. But dinner is a big problem. Even if there's a lot of variety in the food, it isn't always tasty or nutritious," shares Suraj Singh, a fourth-year biotechnology student.
According to him, the cleanliness is also something to frown at. He says, "The plates and glasses are not cleaned properly and you can spot chunks of food on them even after they are washed. In the name of 'washing', they are probably just dipped in a tub of water."
On the contrary, there are other college hostels where the students are quite content with the food on their plates. Students in the IIM-B hostel are more than happy with their mess food.
"It's excellent for the money we pay for it. There are options for vegetarian and non-vegetarian food everyday," notes Jai, a student here.
"Most of the common items are fresh. They have a system where they give an item for dinner, rather than a thali like they give for lunch. This means that for dinner, you'll get a burger one day, puri the next day and dosa the day after. Breakfast is the same on all days and one can have dosas, idli-vada, scrambled eggs, cornflakes etc. The only downside is that if you take extra eggs or a bowl of mutton for lunch, the mess guy marks you in a register and it comes in your mess bill," he laughs.
When it comes to staying in a hostel, one of the main issues that everyone keeps talking about is the mess facility. But at Christ's University's Jonas Hall hostel facility, the fact that there isn't a mess is surprisingly not an inconvenience to the students staying there.
"We go out to new restaurants everyday, which is more often than anyone staying in a PG or an apartment would. In fact, people staying in PG accommodations don't like the food there and end up eating out with us 'Jonas Hallers' anyway and they might as well not have a mess," notes Bineetha Reddy, a first-year student of BBA finance and accounting.
"There are a number of restaurants nearby — Forum Mall is just across the road and Koramangala has quite a few places to try out," she adds — confessing, though, that she has had food poisoning quite a few times from eating out so regularly.