HKS Cafe

Welcome

HKS Cafe

Dining at the Harvard Kennedy School is as diverse as the community who studies and works there. The HKS Café has extensive seating, including in the beautiful, plant-filled atria, but you can also take lunch outside to nearby JFK Park for a lovely break in the day.

HKS is a 3 Star Certified Green Restaurant!

Menu Features:

  • Breakfast: freshly baked pastries, traditional American breakfast selections and breakfast sandwiches, steel cut oatmeal, fruits and yogurts
  • Lunch: thin and thick crust pizzas, classic and specialty deli sandwiches, American grill classics, an extensive salad bar with soups, a daily destination international street food, made-to-order ramen and rice bowls, and a climate-friendly plant-based station.
  • Extensive selection of grab-n-go snacks, sandwiches, salads and beverages
  • Explore the online menu
interior shot of cafe showing salad bar island

M – R, 7am-2:30pm; F 7am-2:00pm

HOURS OF OPERATION
  • Hot Breakfast: 7:00– 10:00am
  • Coffee & Grab and Go: 10:00-11:30am
  • Lunch: 11:30am – 2:00pm
  • Café remains open until 2:30pm for Grab & Go items, hot/cold beverages, pastries, and snacks.
  • Closed on weekends & University holidays

Opening & Closing Dates of Note: Closed during Harvard’s Winter Break 

Harvard Kennedy School

LOCATION

19 Eliot Street, Cambridge

Catering & Graduate Meal Plans

Catering

HUDS supports all your catering needs within the building, from a continental breakfast for 10 to a sit-down dinner for 200. We welcome the opportunity to discuss your event and design a menu to tantalize any palate. Beyond our standard catering menu (available to the HKS community in EMS), we can also work with you to design custom menus and events unique to your needs. In addition to your food requests, we can also support your larger events by coordinating rentals such as tables, chairs, and décor, as well as certified bar services.

Contact Serie DeMelo, General Manager, 617-494-5789 or at serie_demelo@hks.harvard.edu.

The Sustainable Meeting and Event Guide will help you in making choices for your next event that promote nutritional and environmental health, in partnership with our catering team! 

Interested in a Meal Plan?

Any Harvard graduate or professional school students may elect to purchase a GradPlus declining balance meal plan for use in designated Harvard University Dining Services Campus Cafes. Recognizing that food is a universal connector, the meal plan fosters and nourishes your community experience. Nothing is as unifying as a shared meal! Learn more and enroll!