Lunch today in a new eatery on the ground floor of a new building the University has just erected.

Mixed experience - the real downside is that it replaces a cafeteria where you could get a proper meal (cheap and cheerful - but at least a proper main meal of the day). Now you can get sandwiches, baguettes, jacket potatoes and even a pie - but nothing in the way of cooked vegetables or carbohydrates (i.e. chips or rice) to go with them. Rather a shame for the nights I'm at work till 9 or so. There are other places to eat, but cheap and cheerful was sometimes the order of the day and no longer available.

In its defence I suppose you could say it was nice enough venue. Staff separated from students, comfy sofas and newspapers provided, pleasant touches such as the sciencey quotes on the flags for food orders (to go with the cosmologists who have moved onto the second floor (teaching space on the floor in between).