Article created on: 16.11.2018 Last updated: 10.05.2024
Campus Inffeldgasse is the fastest growing campus at TU Graz. The culinary selection is not quite growing at the same pace as the campus buildings, but it is growing. It’s worth a visit.
In this multi-part food story, TU Graz’s News+Stories editorial team introduces the range of food offered at Campus Alte Technik, Neue Technik and Inffeldgasse – from rented suppliers to vending machines.
Don’t praise the noodles before tasting the sauce...
... is the slogan of Trudl’s Noodle Truck. The varied sauce compositions – with at least one changing weekly, one Styrian and several vegan options – more than lives up to the truck's motto. Reinhold and Michael Rodler spoil their customers with international pasta dishes in Styrian style from 6.90 euros, and for a supplement of 1 euro, you can have an XL portion. You can find them at ’Blue’ square (Blauer Platz) between Inffeldgasse 11 and 13 from Monday to Thursday. If you want to save on waste, you can order your meal in a ceramic bowl and pay a deposit or bring your own food container and save 40 cents.
The name Trudl’s Noodle Truck doesn’t come from the proprietor but the Trummer Mill near Ilz, where the noodles come from. Image source: Reinhold Rodler
When tasting the Styrian pasta with giant runner beans, beetroot and (optionally also without) bacon, it becomes immediately clear that these aren’t your usual ‘bog-standard’ noodles. The pasta products made of durum wheat or whole-grain spelt come from the traditional Trummer Mill near Ilz. The successful combination of Trummer and ‘Nudl’ lends its name to Trudl’s Noodle Truck.
Wide selection at the Inffeldgasse canteen
Traditional cuisine with meat or fish, vegetarian, curries and wok dishes. Nobody is sent away hungry from the Inffeldgasse canteen to the Study Centre at Inffeldgasse 10. Here, the kitchen team conjures up 700 to 800 meals onto the table on weekdays. Prices for a main meal are between 4.70 and 12.50 with soup and dessert extra.
Openness and freshness is the concept of the canteen at Inffeldgasse. Dishes are prepared from regional products.
Some 200 persons altogether can fit in the generous, open-plan main space with adjoining M-Café and terrace. On the top floor there are two VIP rooms which can be rented for events – on request also with service.Some 200 persons altogether can fit in the generous, open-plan main space with adjoining M-Café and terrace. On the top floor there are two VIP rooms which can be rented for events – on request also with service.
The weekly offer, prices and opening times of the TU Graz canteens and M-Café Inffeldgasse are on the website of Austrian canteens. Here is detailed information about the canteen bonus club system.
Mediterranean flair at Mercato in Sandgasse
In the Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) building at Sandgasse 34, the cosy Café Mercato invites you to linger. The cafeteria location on the Inffeldgasse campus is a mixture of café and cafeteria with a light Mediterranean touch in the food selection. Every day there is a different soup, vegetarian dish, pasta dish, fish dish, meat dish, tajine dish and dessert. Prices range from around €7 to €12.40 for a main course.
Ten vending machine locations in the Inffeldgasse
You can find drinks and – in some cases – snacks in numerous buildings at the Inffeldgasse location. The Coca Cola vending machines quench your thirst with chilled drinks – from Coca Cola and iced tea to Cappy spritzz and Emotion. The Dallmayr automatic dispensers for hot drinks offer an astonishingly wide selection of sustainable take-away coffee and cocoa drinks. The milk-drinks vending machine from Veit Milch stops that between-meals hunger gap with mild and yoghurt drinks of different tastes. And there’s almost everything for in-between meals from the For 4 you drinks and snacks vending machines: from mineral waters, fruit juices, energy and soft drinks, chocolate and muesli bars, jelly babies, Manner Schnitten (Austrian wafers) and Zotter chocolate to peanuts and chewing gum.
Here is a list of all the vending machines in the Inffeldgasse:
- Inffeldgasse 10: Drinks vending machine, hot drinks vending machine
- Inffeldgasse 11: Drinks vending machine, hot drinks vending machine
- Inffeldgasse 12: Drinks vending machine, hot drinks vending machine
- Inffeldgasse 13: Drinks and snacks vending machine
- Inffeldgasse 18: Drinks vending machine, hot drinks vending machine
- Inffeldgasse 21A: Drinks and snacks vending machine
- Inffeldgasse 23: Drinks vending machine, hot drinks vending machine
- Inffeldgasse 25: Drinks vending machine, drinks and snacks vending machine, hot drinks vending machine, milk-drinks vending machine
