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.

List of 4 events.

  • May
    7

    Tuesday Lunch Menu

    Cincinnati Style Beef Chili Mac (Df, Gf)
    Elbow Macaroni (Vgn)
    Cheddar Cheese (V, Gf)
    Fritos (Vgn, Gf)
    Slivered Onions (Vgn, Gf)
  • May
    8

    Wednesday Lunch Menu

    Chicken & Sausage Jambalaya (Df)
    Fried Okra (Vgn)
    Buttered French Bread (V)
  • May
    9

    Thursday Picnic Lunch Menu

    Steakburgers (Df, Gf)
    Butter Wheat Buns (Vgn)
    Chips (Vgn, Gf)
    Fixin’s
  • May
    10

    Merry Meeting Menu

    Country Day Seafood Pasta (Pesc)
    Roasted Broccoli (Vgn, Gf)
    Garlic Toast (V)
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  • Photo of Mark Uddo

    Mark Uddo 

    Director, Dining Services
    (504) 849-3149
  • Photo of Dominic Maley

    Dominic Maley 

    Sous Chef, Varsity Cross Country, Track & Field Assistant Coach

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.