Fengyi

All the Trinity Formal Halls I've been to have been uniformly pretty awful (even compared with other colleges....the only one I've been to that beats it for 'badness' is Caius), except for the in-college made ice-cream, which is actually edible. If you're joining as a post-graduate (i.e. graduate / MCR member/ BA society member), the BA dinners aren't that much better than regular Formal Hall....and the wine provided is TRULY terrible. Really bad. Really, really bad. Dr. Perry is wonderfully knowledgeable about wine and Trinity has some awsome cellars...but you won't get to those wines! Trinity also charge corkage for wines brought in from the outside (a couple of pounds) too Trinity ordinary (i.e. Buttery) food is also pretty disappointing...at least judging by the number of Trinity graduates who come around for supper at my house!!! However, if you can get a nice Trinity flat with a decent kitchen (yes, they DO exist...) Cambridge has some wonderful sources for fresh food as people have pointed out above. Trinity is also one of those colleges (I think) that sometimes give you the choice of paying more for High Table Food - which is actually pretty good, as it goes! For after dinner relaxing, Trinity has one of the poshest MCR/BA Soc (as they call it) rooms known to CU - very swish looking..... If you want any advice, do PM me (having rowed for ages and been on my MCR committee, I had the dubious pleasure of 'Formal-Hall-Exchanging' over many colleges and have experienced those 'delights' all too well!!). One bit of advice - if you're interested in doing the 'full-Cambridge' experience thingy, it helps to get some 'on-sale' black tie (i.e. tuxedo) when you get here or even before you arrive (I bought all my ballgowns in Canada on sale after graduation-season as it was SO much cheaper). Some of the best meals you'll get here are the black-tie events held by various societies,etc (my own college has such dinners for the MCR community once a term)... and most of these require black tie. If you're here for a PhD, it's definitely worth looking out for a cheapy one to save the enormous price of rental! and the hassle when gravy is inevitably split on it! Sorry to rabbit on so much in my first post, but just wanted to give you the 'heads-up'! HTH....