Best Food Served At A Nuclear Site

[philpatton]

My vote would have to go to both FPL Plants.  The best food service of any plant I've been to.

[ex-turbine_cowboy]

Talk about a blast from the past...I remember the highly aclaimed $100.00 sandwiches that were served at a plant in South Jersey...had to eat them with a straw...not that I would know from any rumored experience...How about you Rapid...bring back memories?

[RADBASTARD]

I thought the $100 sandwiches were at turkey point?

I love a great steak salad at beaver valley!

I love a great cheese steak at salem!

I love a great shimburger at calvert cliffs!

I love those huge breakfast's at a resturaunt called linda's at seabrook.I think they use dinosaur eggs

[Fermione]

 I thought the food at Palo Verde was excellent.  Not always esay to get depending on which unit you were working.  The view at Pilgrim was great especially when the public provided live entertainment on the rocks below!  Anybody else remember that one?  Security steped in and ended the show.  

[Doc_REM]

Ft. Calhoun had a great caf. Good food with a veiw of the river and all those ducks and geasse on the other side of the river.
VERYONE stopped for lunch...and if you didn't play cards you only had 15 mins. to finish your lunch

[gmoney]

Prime Rib at Diablo Canyon's 'Canyon Cafe'. Great food at low prices. Excellent dining area, salad bar is great, sandwich line can't be beat, and grill and bakery are superb. Several top name coffee's always freshly brewed. Open 24/7 (except for a mere 30 min. change over at midnight)during outages and they are very friendly toward contractors. Conveniently located in the protected area. If you haven't been there yet ............you need to get on over-- and get ya some.:-)

It's been said an army runs on it's stomach,.....my opinion is: so does an outage. Overall, these courteous people do a tremendous job running the cafeteria at DCPP and rarely does anyone thank them for all their hard work.

I give the "Canyon Cafe" 5 stars ....thumbs up all the way any day.
  

[Pet_Cow]

You mean eating a donut and drinking coffee while dressed out at Maine Yankee doesn't rate an honorable mention? No wait a minute... I think this belongs under the "What's wrong with this picture" heading. I am so confused. Too many $100.00 sandwiches.

[idrum4food]

gmoney. I'll second the motion on DCPP. Best food ever at a power house.

[AMU]

Palo Verde has to get my vote.

[HydroDave63]

The #1 selling breakfast at Cooper, far and away, is the chicken strips and fries. Stop on by and get some  

[Phurst]

John Mojica's wife's breakfast burritos at Beaver Valley and the munudo for hangovers.

[Rennhack]

Did someone say chicken?  At plant hatch...."Whats for lunch today?" reply: "Fried Chicken, just like every day."

[Doc_REM]

Wait...at Hatch you had a choice!....fired, baked, or barbqued CHICKEN!!!!

[Atomic_Punk]

Palo Verde has to get my vote.

They don't get mine.  I got food poisoning from the place.  TWICE.  Once from the Kilowatt Cafe Grill and the other time from the Pizza Hut.

Diablo and Trojan both had some decent grub.

[feathersmoke]

Mmmmmm...Breakfast.....pancakes at Rocky Flats Building 750 Cafeteria:  $0.70 per pancake, and the pancake was as big as the plate!  I miss my morning pancake with Mountain Dew!  What a way to greet the morning!

[radgal]

Its been years but the Atomic Cafe at Quad Cities was awesome $1.00 for a pancake as big as a plate, if they didn't have it on the menu al ya had to do was ask and they usually made it.  Great food and inexpensive too.

[TENN-1]

EDF's Chinon Nuclear Power Station in Chinon France, salad, roasted rabbit with garlic and herbs, green beans, rolls, cheese and desert. Followed by espresso and dark chocolate with a hint of orange. Almost forgot, one glass of merlot from a local winery - right at the site cafeteria - for real!

[Rain Man]

Pimkin's Pizza @ Peach Bottom.........Yeah right.

[TNman]

Another vote for Diablo, great food! High profile jobs = many meal tickets for free dining pleasure.

[starving_dog]

Turkey Point - The Ropa Vieja was deicious.

On the other hand every Thursday is Mom's Meat Loaf.  If my Mom's Meat Loaf tasted like that, I would have left home a lot earlier!

[LaFeet]

In 1995 at VY John was the "Midshift Chef",..somma da best grub ever, Thank you John,......

John still has the show there and the food is still great

[hamsamich]

For commercial nuclear plants, I'd have to go with the cheesesteak wraps at Salem and the food in general at St. Lucie.  But the nachos from D1G cafeteria in the Nav at KAPL site were the bomb back in 89!

Don't even eat at Indian Point's cafeteria, HORRIBLE!

[kaveman32]

From what i remember Millstone's cafe was'nt to bad or grand gulfs burgers and roast beef sandwichs.

[LaFeet]

If ya wanna add in the navy time....  any beer cart outside EB had excellent sandwiches and that yellow fizzy stuff.

[RADBASTARD]

In the early 80's at salem the nuclear vice president named miltenberger liked this near beer drink,so he had it but in the new salem guard house on the left hand side in one whole machine filled with it.
Then somebody figured out that if you drank 6 of these beers it would equal 1 beer so they pulled it after about 9 months on site.It was in the cafe too.They were afraid the control operators would drink 36 to equal a 6 pack.

God I miss the 80's

[Atomic Frog]

I have to agree with hamsamich, St. Lucie's cafe was good.
One outage I had so many meal tickets that I Ate free 2 times
a day for the entire Outage.  

I Work For Food...

FROG

[JessJen]

In the early 80's at salem the nuclear vice president named miltenberger liked this near beer drink,so he had it but in the new salem guard house on the left hand side in one whole machine filled with it.
Then somebody figured out that if you drank 6 of these beers it would equal 1 beer so they pulled it after about 9 months on site.It was in the cafe too.They were afraid the control operators would drink 36 to equal a 6 pack.

God I miss the 80's

sounds like shandy bass thats the nearest near beer drink i can think of dont usually find it here stateside though

[LaFeet]

sounds like shandy bass thats the nearest near beer drink i can think of dont usually find it here stateside though

Why drink "near beer"  when you can have the full monty?

[JessJen]

its actually good stuff.....a shandy is typically a lemonaide and beer concoction the soda version just has next to no alcohol in it. 

now back to the subject at hand....calvert had a tolerable semi cheese steak sammich last time i was there, while ano had a good salad bar at thier cafeteria......I cant think of too many others that stand out though

[kaveman32]

have to agree the cheese steaks arent to bad at calvert...nor is the howard or romo.

[LaFeet]

Okay... I tried the cheese steak here (sans cheese) and it was pretty damn good.... especially with jalepenos

[kaveman32]

how about a side order of fries with a sprinkle of old bay

[AMU]

Log one vote for Palo Verde, it was a haul each night and worth it.   

[Fermi2]

I hear Fermi is closing their cafeteria or at least closing the seating portion and offering a limited selection.

I like the Sequoyah Cafeteria, especially on FRied Chicken day.

Mike

[Mike McFarlin]

Blimpies at Ginna.

[ps3081]

Does Nine Mile have any food service on site?

[TN-Man]

Brunswick.. Seafood and steaks cooked to your order. Probably get the seafood fresh from the intake screens. I haven't been there since '01 so it may have changed. Great food....

[Already Gone]

St. Lucie, Turkey Point, and TMI all have good onsite cafeterias.  Pickering beats them all.  But the best was that Winnebago that pulled up at SONGS.  That was the best roach-coach I ever dealt with, and the burritos...ahhh the burritos.

[HydroDave63]

St. Lucie, Turkey Point, and TMI all have good onsite cafeterias.  Pickering beats them all.  But the best was that Winnebago that pulled up at SONGS.  That was the best roach-coach I ever dealt with, and the burritos...ahhh the burritos.

Gaby's. They have a fleet of 3 or 4 of those now, of which I probably covered the lease on the first one....

[shovelheadred]

..Palo Verde..what ever you want,,specially southwestern...but that IGLOO cooler from the house always has some homegrown groceries inside..

[Mike McFarlin]

Diablo Canyon's cafeteria had some pretty good meals. A little pricey, but good food.

[UncaBuffalo]

Diablo Canyon's cafeteria had some pretty good meals. A little pricey, but good food.

Had a few nice meals there this time (the tri-tip was esp. good), but they have been slipping over the years.  Still good food if you catch it fresh, but along about 2330 the dishes that have been sitting under heatlamps since morning are looking pretty rough...glad they have the grill, too! 

I just found out this outage that they will make custom pizzas!  Call ahead at X4227.  Order a Pepperoni, Pineapple, & Jalepeno, and they'll know who sent you! 

[RDTroja]

...Order a Pepperoni, Pineapple, & Jalepeno, and they'll know who sent you! 

Does that come with a side of Pepto-Bismol?

To each his own, but YUCK! 

[xobxdoc]

I remember 3 different vendors in the parking lot at Peach in the early 90s. They made some good breakfast sandwiches. Frank Mojica's burritos were always good.

[stormgoalie]

The Ryder's sausage haus roach coach on the Lazy H   Gotta love a Death Dog heart attack on a plate w/lots of jalapenos   Have a bum like a Japanese flag, but worth it.

[LaFeet]

Can we be a bit arrogant and say that the food I bring in for the pot lucks is best .... no   Im sorry  I cant cook

[UncaBuffalo]

The Ryder's sausage haus roach coach on the Lazy H  

Yeah, I got food poisoning from the Lazy-H roach coach...it's the only job I've ever had that I was glad to get food poisoning, 'cuz it was better than going in to work...  :/

[MidnightMeterMan]

Palo Verde...If only you had time to walk all the way out to the cafeteria...

[Chimera]

St. Lucie, Turkey Point, and TMI all have good onsite cafeterias.  Pickering beats them all.  But the best was that Winnebago that pulled up at SONGS.  That was the best roach-coach I ever dealt with, and the burritos...ahhh the burritos.

I vote for Gaby's, also.

[HydroDave63]

I vote for Gaby's, also.

2 sights that warm an ex-sailor's heart.....seeing the mail bag come over the lines during UNREP and landing on the deck, and afternoon changeover of the Gaby's morning truck and afternoon truck, so you (and the raccoons in the switchyard) can smell the freshly fried food for swings! 

[fabshop64]

Norm the pizza man at Peach Bottom. We worked nights he pulled at 0430 and started baking his fresh bread for his sandwiches. And yes both Frank or John Mojica's Burritos with their homemade salsa. Them boys can cook!!
Calvert had good food but offsite gotta get a crab cake from STONEYS!