Nutrition & Food Services

Your meals are important to you and to us. If you are on a diet that allows you to select your own food while in the hospital, you may choose your menu for each meal from a variety of foods. If, for medical reasons, you are on a special diet, you will be given food choices that meet specific dietary guidelines set by your doctor. For most of our patients, a host or hostess from Nutrition & Food Services will visit your room before each meal to tell you about our daily specials and other options and take your order. Some patients will receive menus to complete before each meal. Nutrition education is available for patients with special needs. The department provides professional consultation by clinical dietitians who work with patients, doctors, nurses, and other patient care team members to provide education and nutritional information.

Patients will receive meals at the following times:

The department also provides meals and snacks for staff, visitors, and students. If you have any questions, or would like to speak with someone about food services, call 966-4750.

A variety of dining options are available to UNC Hospitals patients, family and staff. In addition to the following listings, vending machines are located throughout the hospitals and the Ambulatory Care Center.

Terrace Café
Our Terrace Café, located on the first floor Terrace of the Children’s Hospital, offers many dining options for our employees, visitors, and patients, and its always open 24/7/365.

We offer these venues at the Terrace Café:

Fast Breaks
Always Available
Fresh grab and go sandwiches, gourmet soups and salads, healthy snacks, and yummy desserts, available all day every day.

Continental Traders
Monday-Friday
Lunch: 11 a.m.- 2 p.m.
Dinner: 4:30 p.m.- 7:30 p.m.
Continental Traders offers great meals from right around the corner and every corner of the globe.
Selections include BBQ chicken, fried chicken, rotisserie chicken, Dot’s Famous BBQ, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, and much more including a daily feature.

Cosimo’s
Lunch: 10:30 a.m.-4 a.m. (fresh made pizza only after 4 p.m.)
Pizza, pasta, garlic knots, and fresh side salads served for lunch and dinner daily.

Flatiron Grill
Brunch: Midnight-6 a.m.
Breakfast: 6 a.m.-10 a.m.
Lunch:11 a.m.-6 a.m.
The Flatiron Grill offers your All American favorites for breakfast and lunch including made-to-order omelets, pancakes, breakfast sandwiches, and biscuits and gravy for breakfast, and hamburgers, cheeseburgers, French fries, onion rings and more for lunch.

Max Mangoes
Monday-Friday
10:30 a.m.-7 p.m.
Hand dipped ice cream, fresh blended smoothies, floats, ice cream sundaes, frozen yogurt, and more.

Red Ginger
Monday-Friday
Lunch, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Asian inspired, wok fired dishes made fresh to order. Daily specials as well as General Tso’s chicken and beef or tofu stir fry every day, served with white, brown, or fried rice and a choice of dumplings or egg roll.

Sujin Sushi
Always Available, and Rolled to order from 11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., Monday-Friday
Right from the sea: made to order sushi, seaweed salad, edamame, and spring rolls, rolled fresh right in our café every weekday.

Corner Café
The Corner Café is open 7 a.m.-2 p.m. on weekdays, and is located on the ground floor of the Children’s Hospital down the hallway past the kinetic sculpture.

Caprese’s Deli
Monday-Friday
11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Made to order subs and sandwiches with over 20 toppings to choose from!

Bandelero’s
Monday-Friday
11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Our famous burrito (and burrito bowl) spot, with three homemade salsas made daily.

Overlook Cafe
Monday-Friday
Our newest venue, the Overlook Café, is open 7 a.m.-7 p.m. It is located on the 2nd Floor Hallway connecting the N.C. Neurosciences Hospital with the N.C. Cancer Hospital.

Mezza Luna
Monday-Friday
11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Made to order salads with your choice of lettuces, toppings, and dressings, all mixed fresh when you order.

Brick Oven
Monday Friday
11 a.m.-7 p.m.
NY Style Pizza, flatbread and panini.

Baker St
Monday Friday
7 a.m.-7 p.m.
Fresh baked breads and pastries with local Larry’s Beans coffee in the morning with sandwiches and more for lunch.

Starbucks
6:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.

Starbucks is now open on the ground floor of the N.C. Cancer Hospital, featuring all your favorite Starbucks coffee drinks, plus fresh made sandwiches and salads.