Portola Dining Commons - Goleta

I was a Gaucho for a couple of years and the UCSB dining commons are nothing but special to me. Pizza, burgers, pasta, sandwich bar, salad bar, waffle machine, unlimited soda, all-you-can-eat everything all with a simple card swipe! (or $20 for non-students Seriously, some of you guys' complaints make no sense. You really expect French Laundry quality here? Yeah right! This place's job is to provide us with glucose for our brains to complete our studies, and for that I'd say it's beyond satisfactory. Ranking of the DCs: 1. Ortega (sushi baby! 2. DLG (late night cravings 3. Carrillo (best breakfast 4. Portola (too far, had it once

Got food poisoning multiple times from this dining common in 2019. Beware of the salad bar, they don't seem to replace the dressings often. I was ignored when I tried to warn them of the health safety issue. I even tried escalating it to UCSB dining and they were incredibly dismissive.

Aesthetically pleasing dinning commons with nice views. Breakfast usually has the same menu with some minor changes. Lunch is always a delight. Dinner is a hit or miss. Overall fine quality food with nice workers. Shout out to Tina who's a sweetheart of a worker and is worthy of some tips!

I understand you close at a certain time. But, of someone is concluding their meal and you see them eating...and you've put away food products, I think its rude to rush them to eat. An employee did this today and it was not very nice. I felt rushed and there were more cleaning tasks to be done that wouldn't take away from me finishing my meal. There were even dishes still sitting to be clean once I put mine away. Please have your employees consider this in customer interactions. Thanks

Fantastic! I loved having breakfast and dinner here. Great choice, everyday there was something new and, the most important thing, the food was absolutely healthy!!