DINING

Villanova's Dining Services is committed to bringing you a variety of fresh, nutritious and sustainable dining options on the Cabrini Campus. Student meal plans are active across both campuses.

Villanova Dining Locations

BELLESINI HALL

Bellesini Hall offers all-you-care-to-eat dining for breakfast, lunch and dinner (beginning 9/6) - as well as weekend brunch - with menus similar to all-you-care-to-eat dining locations on the Villanova Campus.

Later this fall, we'll also introduce Table 1842, a reservation-based, restaurant-style experience at Bellesini Hall featuring elevated menus, chef-led cooking demos, etiquette dinners and other special events designed to foster connection through food.

Bellesini Dining Stations

Table 1842

CASCIA HALL

Cascia Hall, the newly renovated student center at the heart of the Cabrini Campus, includes several dining options for students, faculty and staff.

Enjoy only-at-Cascia dining opportunities, including:

Local Grounds x Holy Grounds: Your favorite Holy Grounds, reimagined as a full coffeehouse experience featuring local roasters and a warm, community-focused atmosphere;
Rooted: A fresh, customizable concept offering acai bowls, smoothies and grain and salad bowls, powered by local Pennsylvania and New Jersey farms and alumni-owned Pitaya Foods; and
The Menu Maker: A rotating, student-driven dining concept featuring the types of menus and pop-up experiences students want to see.

Local Grounds x Holy Grounds Coffee Shop

LOCAL GROUNDS X HOLY GROUNDS

Rooted at Cascia Hall

ROOTED

The Menu Maker at Cascia

THE MENU MAKER

ALLERGY-FREE OPTIONS

Launching later this fall, the Cabrini Campus will feature Nourish, a dedicated kitchen free from the top nine allergens. Nourish will provide a safe, certified dining experience for those with severe food allergies.

EXPLORE MORE OF THE CABRINI CAMPUS

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

LIVING AND LEADERSHIP COMMUNITIES

TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING

RECREATION AND FITNESS

A GUIDE TO YOUR SOPHOMORE YEAR

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CABRINI CAMPUS FUN FACTS

There’s a lot to discover about the Cabrini Campus. Here are a few facts and figures you may not know.

2,000+ Undergraduate and Graduate Students
are taking classes at Cabrini Campus this fall semester with every undergraduate class year represented.

75% of Undergraduate Students
taking classes on the Cabrini Campus live on the Villanova Campus or off campus.

75+ Full-Time Faculty
have offices on the Cabrini Campus—about 10% of Villanova's faculty.

Bellesini Hall
is one of Villanova's three largest academic buildings by number of classrooms.

HONORING OUR CATHOLIC HERITAGE

Mother Cabrini Statue on the Cabrini Campus

Building names on the Cabrini Campus honor the heritage of St. Augustine and Mother Cabrini. The Student Center is named Cascia Hall after St. Rita of Cascia, an Augustinian nun, and student study spaces is housed in Tagaste Hall, named after the North African city that was the birthplace of St. Augustine. Two residence halls—Francesca and Xavier Halls—both honor St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (Mother Cabrini, who was born Maria Francesca Cabrini). Additional buildings are named in honor of Augustinian friars and nuns.

OUR PLAN IN ACTION

EXPANDING THE VILLANOVA EXPERIENCE

The unique community spirit that makes Villanova University a “new home” for students extends to the Cabrini Campus, where Villanovans will discover the Augustinian Catholic ideals of veritas, unitas and caritas in all aspects of campus life. The same rigorous academics, vibrant extracurricular activities, commitment to service and caring atmosphere feature prominently in our new facilities and halls, and students will find their physical and mental well-being supported as strongly as it is on the Villanova Campus. Learn more about how we’re planning to care for Villanovans in mind, body and spirit.

REVITALIZING OUR NEW HOME

Villanova spent two years addressing infrastructure updates and renovation work on the Cabrini Campus, creating a full Villanova experience for all community members who live, work, study and visit the new campus. Projects included full renovations to provide a new student center, classroom and residence hall updates, technology upgrades for a seamless IT experience and landscape enhancements, among many others.

Supporting Villanova's Strategic Mission

The Cabrini Campus furthers the goals of the University's Strategic Plan and the Espiritus Nova comprehensive campaign by enhancing Villanova’s campus to foster collaboration and innovation. The University received a $5 million gift to help fund the Cabrini Campus revitalization from Andy ’86 CLAS and Kayellen Reisinger.

Preserving Mother Cabrini's Legacy

As the Augustinians were in the early years of establishing Villanova College in Pennsylvania, Frances Cabrini was growing up in a small Italian village near Milan in the 1850s. Over the course of the next decades, Villanova’s founders expanded their educational mission, and Mother Cabrini, as she came to be known, worked her way to the United States to establish schools, founding the Institute of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.Mother Cabrini was canonized in 1946 and was named patron saint of immigrants in 1950, in honor of her dedication to the needs of Italian immigrants in her early years in New York City. Mother Cabrini’s dedication to education led to her namesake institution being founded in Radnor in 1957.

A Sustainable Effort

Among the many logistical matters Villanova needed to address with the Cabrini Campus renovation was responsible deployment and disposal of equipment, materials and furniture. Villanova staff got to work to find ways to reuse and recycle as much as possible. Through these efforts, not only did these items escape the landfill, but they also found new homes with Villanova offices and local, regional and international nonprofit organizations.