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Experience
Dining & Weekly Lunch Menu
The Dining Experience: Family-Style Dining
The Coleman Family Dining Room at Country Day is an integral part of our school community. Students, faculty, staff, and parents share this experience through family-style service in a rustic dining room with cypress panels and oak floors. Tables are set with china, utensils, and white tablecloths. Students in various grades are assigned seats, including a designated server who is also their classmate. The day’s lunch offering is retrieved from the kitchen set on a tray in serving bowls and baskets. Students pass the bowls, serve each other, and can return to the kitchen for unlimited refills. Dessert is offered, on a limited basis. Health, nutrition, flavor, creativity, quality, local-sourcing, and balance are our priorities. Nutrition complements tradition in a warm setting overlooking an organic garden.
In the entrance foyer, guests are greeted with baskets of fresh produce that are available all day and a world-class salad bar that offers over 70 items, including hot soup du jour, vegetarian entrée, and alternative menu offerings. There is special attention to students with specific food allergies, including gluten-free and lactose-free preparations. Country Day Dining Services nourishes students’ hearts, minds, and bodies.
The Coleman Family Dining Room at Country Day is an integral part of our school community. Students, faculty, staff, and parents share this experience through family-style service in a rustic dining room with cypress panels and oak floors. Tables are set with china, utensils, and white tablecloths. Students in various grades are assigned seats, including a designated server who is also their classmate. The day’s lunch offering is retrieved from the kitchen set on a tray in serving bowls and baskets. Students pass the bowls, serve each other, and can return to the kitchen for unlimited refills. Dessert is offered, on a limited basis. Health, nutrition, flavor, creativity, quality, local-sourcing, and balance are our priorities. Nutrition complements tradition in a warm setting overlooking an organic garden.
In the entrance foyer, guests are greeted with baskets of fresh produce that are available all day and a world-class salad bar that offers over 70 items, including hot soup du jour, vegetarian entrée, and alternative menu offerings. There is special attention to students with specific food allergies, including gluten-free and lactose-free preparations. Country Day Dining Services nourishes students’ hearts, minds, and bodies.
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Friday Lunch Menu
Blackened Chicken Legs (Df, Gf)Roasted Potatoes (V, Gf)Sauteed Green Beans (Vgn, Gf)Buttered French Bread (V)
Matzo (Vgn) -
Monday Lunch Menu
Beef Meatballs or Meat Sauce (Df, Gf)Penne Pasta (Vgn) or Polenta (Vgn, Gf)Cauliflower (Vgn, Gf)Parmesan Cheese (V, Gf)Buttered French Bread (V)
Matzo (Vgn) -
Tuesday Lunch Menu
Sweet & Sour Chicken (Df)Long Grain White Rice (Vgn, Gf)Vegetable Spring Rolls (Vgn)Orange Dipping Sauce (Vgn, Gf)
Matzo (Vgn) -
Wednesday Picnic Lunch Menu
Pulled Pork Nachos (Df, Gf)Corn Tortilla Chips (Vgn, Gf)Queso Cheese Sauce (V, Gf)Corn (Vgn, Gf)House Salsa, Sour Cream, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Jalapenos (Vgn or V, Gf)
About the Chef
Chef Mark Uddo is a veteran of the hospitality industry and advocate of healthy, imaginative, and locally sourced foods implemented through Country Day’s unique Dining Services program. His accomplishments at Country Day and service within the Greater New Orleans community were recognized by the University of New Orleans as their Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism School’s Distinguished Alumnus of 2008 and the American Culinary Federation’s Best Chefs of Louisiana in 2011. Then, in 2013, he was elevated to ACFNO Legend status. In 2015, he was chosen as a Role Model by the Young Leadership Council.
300 Park Road, Metairie, LA 70005 (504) 837-5204
Established in 1929, Metairie Park Country Day School is a coed private school for New Orleans area students in early childhood through Grade 12. From the elementary grades through upper school, the care and cultivation of each child comes to life in our exciting academic program, creative arts, and competitive athletic offerings.
Country Day accepts qualified students without regard to race, color, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national or ethnic origin.
