Description
Carrillo Dining Commons is a buffet restaurant found at Ocean Rd in Santa Barbara, CA, noted for 126 reviews. Featured offerings include fruit and Apple Cinnamon Crepes, waffles, and New England Clam Chowder. The busiest times with up to 15-minute waits typically occur Monday through Thursday around lunch hours and also Saturday noon to early afternoon. Fridays and Sundays are generally wait-free.
Amenities
- Outdoor seating
- Dine-in
- Delivery
- Solo dining
- Wheelchair accessible entrance
- Wheelchair accessible parking lot
- Wheelchair accessible restroom
- Wheelchair accessible seating
- All you can eat
- Coffee
- Comfort food
- Healthy options
- Salad bar
- Vegan options
- Vegetarian options
- Dessert
- Table service
- Restroom
- Wi-Fi
- College students
- Accepts reservations
- Credit cards
- Debit cards
Reviews (126)
4 Superb Reviews Out of 126 Reviews
Amazing
69
Great
29
Okay
14
Not Great
7
Terrible
7
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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)
Wow, what good food! It is certainly much better here than any other dining commons that I've been to. The Berkeley food is kind of nasty and has no options compared to Carrillo. I did not like their pork loin, though. It was dry.
Dinning hall on campus. It was decent dorm food that offered a variety of choices for our orientation visit
Carmeluzzo was so hangover he did not know what we were doing. In compens, the all you can eat breakfast was a hit! I also stole an apple because i couldnt get enough
This is a great buffet for students to bring their parents and friends too. There are always people here and it can get quite busy, but that's all just a testament to how great the food is. Don't get me wrong, this isn't gourmet style foods, but for a UC, Santa Barbara really knows how to serve it up. The food is prepared right in front of you and comes with a great flavor, cultural diversity, and freshness you usually get from home cooked meals. I love coming here.
This place is great! There's tons of options to choose from that accommodates different dietary needs and some stuff is just plain good. There is also good variety. Today for lunch we could have anything from chicken shwarma to pizza to salad to cheeseburgers. It's just awesome.
this is my favorite dining Commons on campus. Each dining Commons has at least three distinct food areas such as Italian, Asian, American. Burgers, pizza, Asian cuisine, large pastry area, lots of drink options, awesome Chef. Always kept clean, always busy. Get there early. Great indication on Food as to potential allergy concerns
great burgers at the grill , and the cream cheese brownies are delicious ! also the employee at salad, the girl wearing glasses named Alex, was great at helping me , super nice, and overall made me feel welcome my first year at UCSB. i will be visiting salad again because i am vegan! glad to have that employee always helping me. the other employees are also nice but not as helpful. salad is my favorite!!