Dining Options

Patients can receive an extensive menu of fresh, cooked-to-order foods delivered to their hospital rooms, and tailored to the diet their physician has prescribed. Caregivers and guests of MD Anderson inpatients now have two options for ordering food.

How to order PATIENT meals: 

Choose from our extensive menu of fresh, cooked-to-order foods: 
Room service patient menu

• Orders can be placed anytime between 6:30 a.m. and 9:30 p.m., 7 days a week.
•  Place your order by calling 2-DINE from an MD Anderson phone line or 713-792-3463 from an external line.
• The Room Service Assistant will assist you with selecting menu items that meet your diet order.
• Your meal will be delivered to your room within 60 minutes.

How to order GUEST meals: 

Room service guest menu

• Orders can be placed weekdays between 6:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. and weekend/holidays 6:30 a.m. -10:00 a.m.
• Place your order by calling 2-DINE from an MD Anderson phone line.
• Payment via major credit card is due upon delivery. (No cash)
• Your meal will be delivered to your room within 60 minutes.

GET app guest 

• Pickup hours weekdays 11:00 a.m.. - 7:00 p.m. and weekend/holidays 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
• Place your order using the GET App for pick up in Café Anderson.
• Payment is due at the time of placing the order.
• Please reference the GET App Ordering Guide

Hot entrees, pizzas, soups, grilled classics made to order, restaurant rotation, Asian dumplings and hot rice and noodle bowls, and prepackaged sandwiches, salads, pastries, an innovation snack station and a wide variety of sweets.

Location: Main Building, Floor 1, near Elevator D, R1.2351 (Get directions)
Hours: Monday-Friday, 6 a.m.-8:30 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 7 a.m.-7:30 p.m.
Phone: 713-792-2288

Pastries, Starbucks espresso beverages, "We Proudly Serve" Starbucks coffee, and prepackaged sandwiches, salads, sushi and sweets.

Location: Main Building, Floor 2, in The Park (Get directions)
Hours: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Apicius Kitchen, located in the Jesse Jones Rotary House International hotel, open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It offers a full buffet, as well as a breakfast a la carte menu and an all-day a la carte menu. Apicius Lounge provides a casual setting for cocktails, conversation and light snacks

Location: 1600 Holcombe Blvd., across from the Main Building (Get directions)

Restaurant Hours:
Monday-Friday, 6:30 a.m.-10 p.m.
Saturday/Sunday, 7:30 a.m-10 p.m.

Lounge Hours: Daily, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

The Rotary House also offers the following dining choices:
 

• Market Best: hot breakfast and lunch, convenience foods, toiletries
  
• Rotary Café: Starbucks beverages, frozen drinks, freshly baked pastries and cookies
• Fresco’s: salad bar, build a sandwich, Krispy Krunchy fried chicken, Pizza Hut pizza and pasta
• Fuzions: self-serve frozen yogurt with more than 40 different candies, fresh fruit, syrups and sauce toppings.

Hot entrees, pizzas, soups, grilled classics made to order, breakfast tacos, breakfast breads, Asian dumplings and hot rice and noodle bowls,  "We Proudly Serve" Starbucks coffee, prepackaged sandwiches, salads, sushi and sweets.

Location: Mays Clinic, Floor 2, near The Tree Sculpture, ACB2.2402 (Get directions)
Hours: Monday-Friday, Breakfast 6:30-10 a.m. & Lunch 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Cool Beans Café and Bakery

Starbucks espresso beverages, "We Proudly Serve" Starbucks coffee, pastries, prepackaged sandwiches, salads, sushi and sweets.
Location: Duncan Building, Floor 2, near Elevator Q, CPB2.3050
Hours: Monday-Friday, 6:30 a.m.-10 a,m. 

Express Eatery

Variety of grill classics, soups, snacks, candies, frozen entrees and prepackaged sandwiches, salads, sushi and sweets.
Location: Main Building, Floor 5, near Elevator D
Hours: Monday-Thursday, 7 a.m-3 p.m.; Friday, 7 a.m.-2 p.m.

Light Bytes

Starbucks espresso beverages, "We Proudly Serve" Starbucks coffee, pastries, and prepackaged sandwiches, salads, sushi, Asian dumplings and hot rice and noodle bowls and sweets.
Location: Pickens Tower, Floor 3, near Elevator N
Hours: Monday-Friday, 6 a.m.-4 p.m.

Vending machines for patients and family members are located throughout the Main Building and Mays Clinic:

• Main Building, Floor 1, near The Pavilion and Café Anderson
• Main Building, Floor 2, near Elevator B, R2.1854
• Main Building, Radiation Treatment Center, Waiting Room H, GB.5225
• Main Building, Floor 7, in Staff Elevator GB lobby
• Mays Clinic, Floor 4, Outpatient Surgery waiting area, ACB4.2110
• Mays Clinic, Floor 7, near Elevator U, ACB7.1900
• Mays Clinic, Floor 8, near Elevator T, ACB8.1201
• Duncan Building, adjacent to Cool Beans Café and Bakery