St Anne’s offers some of the most delicious and affordable meals in Oxford. Check out below for the various dining hall meal options. Aside from meals in hall, you can also get smaller bites from our coffee shop, STACS.
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Regular Meals
During term (usually between 0th and 9th Week), there are regular, self-service meals in the dining hall, which do not require advanced booking. These meals must be paid using your University Card.
| Meals | Time | Prices |
|---|---|---|
| Breakfast (Monday-Friday) | 8-9.30 am | 0.35 GBP per item |
| Lunch (Monday-Friday) | 12.15-1.45pm | 2.90 GBP main, 0.90 GBP sides |
| Dinner (Monday-Friday, except Formal Hall nights) | 6.15-7.30 pm | 2.90 GBP main, 0.90 GBP sides |
| Brunch (Saturday) | 11-1pm | 0.35 GBP per item |
| Roast (2 Sundays/term) | 12-2pm | 2.90 GBP main, 0.90 GBP sides |
Formal Halls
Formal halls take place in preceded by drinks in the MCR and followed by port and chocolates in the MCR. The dinners are open to all MCR members, and each member may bring up to three guests. Prices and bookings are available on the college meal booking system.
Dress Code
The dress code for St Anne’s Formal Dinner is Smart. This includes suit and tie, national dress, cocktail dress, jacket, blouse and trousers. Unlike many other colleges, academic gowns are not required.
Special Dinners
A few times a term, traditional Formal Halls are replaced by special dinners to mark different milestones of the academic year and celebrate college traditions and history.
Freshers Dinner
Every year, the College holds a special formal dinner in Week 1 to welcome all incoming graduates. The seating plan is arranged according to your subject, and incoming students are seated next to fellows, MCR committee members, and college administrators with whom they share interests.
Christmas Dinner
College organizes a Christmas dinner every year to mark the end of Michaelmas Term. See it as a very fancy Formal Hall with pre-drinks and second dessert.
MCR Dinners & Exchanges
These dinners are a luxurious affair. While traditional formal halls gather undergraduate, postgraduate students and the college staff, MCR dinners only gather postgraduate students. 26 students gather and dine in the Upper Common Room (UCR). Dinner involves pre-dinner sparkling wine or orange juice in the Lower Common Room (LCR), a 3-course meal with optional wine option for each course, and chocolates and coffee after dinner.
On occasions, we will also host MCR of other colleges to the UCR dinner.
MCR Murder Mystery Dinners
Each term, the MCR organizes a whole evening, including a 3-course meal and various drinks, dedicated to one question: who’s the murderer?! You’ll be assigned a role beforehand, you will dress up accordingly, act as your character and receive new hints throughout the evening. At the end, you must decide who the murderer is. This decision is usually discussed extensively afterwards in the college bar.
Founders Dinner
A special formal dinner is organized each Hilary Term to commemorate the foundation of the College. This is the only formal of the year to which we wear our academic gowns.