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Lenoir Dining

Lenoir Dining offers a different menu every week and is open to all UM students, faculty, staff, and community members on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

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Ole Miss Nutrition and Hospitality Management students prepare and serve meals at the Lenoir Hall dining facility.

About Lenoir Dining

Come enjoy a meal at Lenoir Dining, a full-service, non-profit restaurant lab located in historic Lenoir Hall on Sorority Row. We offer a cozy 40-seat dining experience where every dish is prepared fresh and served by students in the Department of Nutrition and Hospitality Management.

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Dine With Us

Lenoir Dining isn’t just a great place to eat — it’s also an experiential learning course and restaurant lab operated by students. Throughout the semester, students gain hands-on experience in the ins and outs of running a restaurant, rotating through every role from preparing meals in the kitchen to managing operations and providing table service. It’s an opportunity for students to put what they’re learning in the classroom into practice while gaining real-world experience in the hospitality industry.
Biscuits at Lenoir
Shrimp dish at Lenoir

Our Menu

The menu changes weekly at Lenoir Dining in an effort to expose our students to new food ideas and concepts as well as to allow them to express their creativity through food.

Each meal consists of:

• A choice of drink (coffee, tea, water, etc)
• Freshly made bread-of-the-day served with spread
• Soup or Salad
• Entrée and accompanying side items
• Dessert

 

Menu posted weekly on Instagram
Ole Miss Nutrition and Hospitality Management students prepare and serve meals at the Lenoir Hall dining facility.
Ole Miss Nutrition and Hospitality Management students prepare and serve meals at the Lenoir Hall dining facility.

How to Dine at Lenoir

We are open to all UM students, faculty, staff, and community members on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Confirmations will be made the day of your reservation.

Payment is taken in the form of credit card (MasterCard or Visa), or Interdepartmental Sale (checks, Flex, nor Express will be accepted).

Ole Miss Nutrition and Hospitality Management students prepare and serve meals at the Lenoir Hall dining facility.
Ole Miss Nutrition and Hospitality Management students prepare and serve meals at the Lenoir Hall dining facility.

Why Dine at Lenoir?

When you dine at Lenoir, you’re experiencing a restaurant lab where students put their classroom learning into practice. From preparing and serving meals to managing restaurant operations, students gain valuable hands-on experience while building the skills, confidence and professionalism they’ll carry with them into their hospitality careers.

Who Works at Lenoir?

Lenoir Dining is entirely run by students enrolled in NAHM 4620/4720, Quantity Food Production and Service (with lab). The course covers principles and fundamentals of quantity food production and service in commercial and institutional operations including:

  • Menu planning
  • Recipe standardization
  • Human resource utilization
  • Food safety
  • Culinary skills
  • Hazard analysis of critical control points, and
  • Costing