Halls Cafe

The Halls Café located next to the Operations Office is open for lunch and dinner seven days a week. At Clayton Residential, the Halls Cafe serves as a key dining facility and aims to provide nutritious and freshly prepared meals for residents whilst every endeavour is made to keep prices as low as possible. Big-screen LCD TV, radio and daily newspapers are provided in the dining room where residents can relax and catch up with friends over a coffee or a meal.  

Food in the Halls Cafe is not cooked to order as in an a la carte restaurant but is served cafeteria/canteen style from bain-maries.

The Lunch menu generally consists of sandwiches, salads, hot snacks and 4 varieties of hot main meals such as a variety of pasta, chicken, fish, stir-fries, etc.

The Dinner menu is slightly more extensive where up to 6 varieties of main meals are offered. In addition, dessert and side dishes like fries, baked potatoes, salads, steamed vegetables, etc. are also available. The dining room operates on cyclic menus thus menus change on a daily basis. Please click here  for an example of the 4-week cyclic dinner menu or call  internal Xn 57863 if you wish to listen to the menu for the evening meal.

Costs of main meals range from $5.90 to $6.40 and Meal Cards are available for purchase from our Operations Office at $58.00 each. The Meal Cards provide 10 main meals at up to 12% discount, for use in the Halls Cafe, valid for the month of issue and for main meals only. Meal Cards are not valid for side dishes, drinks or desserts/sweets. Any meals not consumed in that month are not redeemable and cannot be credited to the following month. Lost or stolen Meals Cards will not be replaced.

The Halls Café is connected to the Monash wireless network which enables residents to use their laptop to study, email or surf the web whilst having a coffee and/or meal. The Halls Café has a friendly and inviting atmosphere and is a great place to meet friends and socialise.

Opening hours -

Morning Café:    11am – 12noon

Lunch:               12noon – 2pm

Dinner:              6pm – 7.30pm 

Halal Meals

Monash Residential Services recognises that residents come from a wide variety of backgrounds, cultures and religions. To service a large multicultural community, all meals served are halal. MRS has successfully engaged Monash University Mosque as our advisory body in the on-going implementation of Halal Assurance System in all aspects of our food preparations. This means any food that is prepared in our kitchen is compliant to the halal guidelines. MRS Halal Assurance System does not replace but acts as a complimentary guideline to the Food Safety Program approved by the City Council.

Golden Plate Award

Since 2007 Clayton Residential Halls Cafe has been participating in and successfully received the Golden Plate Award presented by Monash City Council. Eligibility for this annual award requires all food outlet participants to successfully achieve excellence in Healthy Food Options, Hygiene, Safe Food Handling and Environmental Sustainability.