There are not many reasons to come to Baltimore. However, one of the chief reasons is it is home to the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Public Health, and various associated labs and medical libraries. While you are toiling away in a classroom or waiting for medical exams, you might want to grab a bite. The following are places to eat at JHH. Please note, this is list is not comprehensive.

1. The hospital cafeteria: located in the ground floor of the hospital directly past the main entrance (on Wolfe Street), this large eating depot affords some of the most interesting and depressing people-watching to be found. While the food is the normal cafeteria-fair, with soggy pizza and sandwiches, there are also stalls selling subway sandwiches, coffee, etc. The ice cream is quiet tasty (sometimes they even have sprinkles!), but everything else is somewhat sub-par. It is open from 6:15 AM to 7:15 PM every day. The coffee and pastry stall is open from 5:30 AM to 2 AM
   
2. Tower Terraces: this is a posh, sit down restaurant located across from the cafeteria. While the meals look tempting, I have never heard anyone be too excited by it. However, housed within the restaurant is an excellent sushi place (they do have a small dining area, but most people do take-out) Winners of Baltimore City Paper’s best hospital food award, the sushi is usually nice and tasty, and the servers are always ready to do rush orders in case you are late for an emergency appendectomy. Both are open from 11-3 Monday-Friday
   
3. Grille 601: known to locals simply as The Grill, this restaurant is located off of Broadway St., on level 2 of the outpatient center (if you are entering from Broadway, this is the entry level). A tasty and fresh salad bar is offered. Wraps (which are particularly tasty), fruit, Jell-O, pudding, etc are also available. There is also a sub stall, as well as a pizza and hamburger stalls. Breakfasts are available, but expect your arteries to ache at the sight of the bacon, sausage and scrabbled eggs. It is open from 7AM to 3 PM, but because many of the hospital staff frequent this restaurant, be prepared to wait if you go during rush times.
   
4. Women’s Board Coffee Bar: this place claims to sell coffee and pastries, but I have honestly never been able to locate it, much less sample their wares. Allegedly it is open from 7AM – 3PM Mondays through Fridays on level 1 of the outpatient center
   
5. Juice and Java: This store, manned by some of the more surly food workers of JHH, can be found in the main lobby (on the first floor) of the Weinberg Building. It offers tasty breyers ice cream, in addition to the standard coffee, sodas, chips, and snacks. It is open Monday-Friday, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
   
6. Daily Grind: this café has 2 locations: second floor of the School of Public Health, and first floor of Hampton House. While snacks such as warps and salads are available, the premier draw is the tasty coffee and other beverages. The hot chocolate with whipped cream is especially not to be missed! However, be sure to time your visits carefully, especially at the school of public health locale. The 10:30 AM rush is particularly dangerous, as students desperate for caffeine fix before biostats jockey for position on the line. Open in both locations, 8AM-5PM Mondays through Fridays
   
7. Medical School Cafeteria: I have never eaten here but it looks tasty enough, though not particularly interesting. However, right next door is a large computer lab where you can see real live medical students in their natural habitat. Open on the first floor of the medical school, 7AM-3PM Mondays through Fridays
   
8. Jay’s Café at the School of Public Health: Located on the 9th floor of the school of public health, this café is run by a popular catering company. Offering a range of food from sushi to hot food (there is a daily rotating menu) to salads it is, for institution food, supposed to be pretty tasty, and the lines are rarely line. A wide mix of personnel, from professors to nursing, med, and public heath students to doctors can be found the café. While the food may give them something to eat, the main draw is the glassed in eating space, offering amazing panoramic view out over eastern Baltimore and the harbor area. open Monday-Friday 7AM-3PM
   
9. The Grind: not to be confused with the Daily Grind, this coffee shop is located on the fourth floor of the Ross Research Building. The coffee is lackluster and the pastries are sub-par, but the view is not bad. Open 7AM-3PM
   
10. Coffee Bar: located in the lobby of the hospital, this coffee and pastry stall is quick and easy for those in a rush. They also have amazing muffins. Open 7AM-3PM