Exploring Harvard Dining Halls: Pforzheimer House

Harvard has a total of twelve upperclassman dining halls and Annenberg, a freshman-only dining hall. Each dining hall has different configuration, and although the type of food is similar across board, their taste varies depending on the chef's cooking skills. I would say Pforzheimer House falls in the middle rank.

This section is for main entrees (usually two meat dishes and a vegetarian dish), some kind of carbohydrates (grains, rice, bread, potato), and two types of vegetables.

The salad bar is equipped with fresh mixed greens, lettuce, or romaine, cucumber, tomatoes, carrots, brocoli, beans, beets, yogurt, cottage cheese, apple sauce, and pre-made salad.

Fruit baskets full of granny smith apples, red apples, oranges, and bananas. There is a frozen yogurt machine and many different types of cereal.

This section at the back of the dining hall features the special Make-Your-Own bar of the day. Depending on the day of the week, it features a fajita bar, Korean BBQ bar, baked potato and chili bar, greek salad bar, and Peking chicken bar (as seen in this picture, complete with chicken, tofu, mushu wrap, and sauce).

Pforzheimer House is famous for its two-level "double dining hall." The food is on the first floor, but you can bring the tray up to the second floor for more privacy and quiet dining.