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Where to eat near Gonzaga University
Gonzaga University sits inside a city, which means the problem is not finding somewhere to eat — it is that there are hundreds of options and the same six get recommended to every new student. The good places are usually one neighbourhood over from the ones with the queue.
Savor Scout picks one restaurant near Spokane, WA and shows you why it picked it. Say what you are craving — including a budget, a dietary need, or that it has to be open right now — and it reads menus and reviews for those specific things rather than sorting places by overall star rating.
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The campus
- Location — Spokane, WA
- Setting — in a city
- Size — 5,000 to 9,999 students
- Type — Private, not-for-profit four-year institution
Campus figures are from IPEDS, the US Department of Education's institutional survey. Size is reported as the survey's own bracket rather than an exact headcount, because that is what the public dataset gives and we would rather quote it than estimate.
Eating near a mid-sized campus in a city
Campus-adjacent blocks are priced and designed for students who will eat there twice a week for four years, which keeps them cheap and keeps them honest. The better cooking is often a short ride out, in the neighbourhoods where people actually live.
A student body this size supports a real cluster of restaurants without supporting a huge one, which tends to produce a small number of very good places rather than a wide field of average ones. The upside is that the good ones are easy to find. The downside is that you will have been to all of them by your second year.
The nearest city of any real size is Spokane, WA, about 1 mile away — worth knowing for the nights when the usual options near campus have run out.
One thing that catches everyone out: term time and break are different towns. Hours shrink, some places close entirely, and the listings almost never keep up — so a place that shows as open in July may not be.
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Nearby cities
Savor Scout searches a wide radius, so these are all in range:
- Spokane, WA — about 1 mile away
- Spokane Valley, WA — about 8 miles away
- Coeur d'Alene, ID — about 29 miles away
- Pasco, WA — about 126 miles away
- Kennewick, WA — about 129 miles away
Deciding as a group
Most campus meals are group meals, and a group chat is the worst possible way to choose a restaurant. Savor Scout turns it into a 90-second vote with one veto each — how that works, and why the veto is the move that matters.
Guides worth reading
- What to eat during finals week
- Where to eat when you're broke
- Where to eat late at night
- Where to take visiting family and friends
- Eating out with a dietary restriction
Other campuses in WA
- University of Washington-Seattle Campus — Seattle
- Washington State University — Pullman
- Bellevue College — Bellevue
- Eastern Washington University — Cheney
- Western Washington University — Bellingham
- Central Washington University — Ellensburg