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Dining

MCAD Café and Micro Market

Whether you need a full meal or just a coffee, the MCAD Café has you covered. The Café serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner during the academic year, offering a wide variety of fresh food options. The staff can accommodate those with special dietary needs and preferences such as vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free diners. The Café is always striving to use sustainable and ethical practices.

A Micro Market is located in the Café and offers a wide variety of items including sushi, sandwiches, heat-and-serve meals, beverages, and snacks. The self-serve market is open 24 hours, 7 days a week. Credit/debit cards and MCAD Café flex meal cards are accepted.

New Cafe menu item

Resident Student Dining Plan

While MCAD’s residential apartments provide fully equipped kitchens, MCAD also has an on-campus café and Micro-Market serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and meal kits daily during the academic year. To promote healthy eating habits, and to provide a convenient method to pay for meals, students who live in MCAD housing select a declining-balance food plan to be used in the MCAD Café when completing the housing application. The food plan will be charged each semester along with tuition, fees, and MCAD housing charges. Students may choose to add funds to the minimum plan once the semester begins.

Dining plan is subject to change.

Food from the MCAD Cafe

Other Food Options

If you like to cook, convenient campus shuttles make regular trips to nearby grocery stores. MCAD's on-campus apartments offer full kitchens, including refrigerators, ovens, and stovetops.

If you like to eat out or cook in, campus is two blocks from the famous Eat Street on Nicollet Avenue, which boasts more than fifty destinations for eating out or grocery shopping. To name a few stores within walking distance of MCAD's campus:

  • Aldi Foods
    2601 Lyndale Avenue South
    Minneapolis, MN 55408
  • Shuang Hur Supermarket Minneapolis
    2712 Nicollet Ave
    Minneapolis, MN 55408
  • The Wedge Co-op
    2105 Lyndale Ave South
    Minneapolis, MN 55405

Here are some of students’ favorite food spots, all within walking distance from MCAD:

Food Support

Some of these costs can cause stress and impact your academic success and personal well-being. Help comes in a variety of forms.

MCAD has established an Emergency Parachute Fund. Available to current MCAD students, this fund provides limited financial assistance to students who are unable to meet essential expenses.

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2501 Stevens Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55404

Contact Us

612.874.3700
800.874.MCAD (6223)
Fax: 612.874.3701

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Land Acknowledgement

The Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) acknowledges it is located on traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of Indigenous people. This is the ancestral homeland of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, who were forcibly exiled from the land because of aggressive and persistent settler colonialism. We recognize that this place has a complex and layered history. As a community dedicated to creativity, MCAD is committed to ongoing efforts to support and advocate for American Indian Nations and peoples.


Nondiscrimination Policy

MCAD admits students of any race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, or marital status to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, or marital status in the administration of its educational policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school-administered programs.