Food & catering
All Victoria University (VU) campuses offer a range of food options for students, staff and the wider community. This includes VenU, our award-winning, student-run restaurant at Footscray Nicholson Campus.
We strive to cater for dietary requirements. However, offerings vary from campus to campus.
Free drinking water is available from new drinking fountains and from free essential kitchen facilities available to staff, students and visitors on across VU campuses.
All VU food and beverage outlets have strict health and safety practices in place.
City Campus
VU's City Tower has two cafes, which focus on serving up fresh and healthy food. Grab a coffee on the ground floor, or head to Level 10 for a 'grab and go' option between meetings or classes.
Footscray Park Campus
Footscray Park Campus offers a variety of delicious food and drink options for you to choose from, including sushi, noodles, baguettes and focaccias. Head down to buildings M and P at Footscray Park Campus for a bite to eat.
Footscray Nicholson Campus
The Common Café is focused on providing a range of healthy, fresh and innovative offerings. They use the Victorian Government's Healthy Choices guidelines 'traffic light system' to categorise their foods and drinks into three groups:
- Green (best choice/at least 50%)
- Amber (choose carefully)
- Red (Limit/no more than 20%).
These offerings include specialty coffee, daily hot food selections, pastries, wraps, focaccias, sandwiches, and breakfast snacks.
The team pride themselves on offering not only great food, coffee, and service with a smile but also a range of options for your business catering.
BYO your own coffee cups for a 40 cent discount off any size coffee purchased.
Location: Building T at Footscray Nicholson Campus
Opening hours:
Monday—Thursday, 7:45am—2:30pm
Friday, 8am—1:30pm
Catering: See prices and information
Sustainability attributes: Milk Bladder system (saving on plastic milk cartons), discount on BYO coffee cups, no gas appliances
Health initiatives: HEAS Traffic Light System
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St Albans Campus
The Common Café is focused on providing a range of healthy, fresh and innovative offerings. They use the Victorian Government's Healthy Choices guidelines 'traffic light system' to categorise their foods and drinks into three groups:
- Green (best choice/at least 50%)
- Amber (choose carefully)
- Red (Limit/no more than 20%).
These offerings include specialty coffee, daily hot food selections, pastries, wraps, focaccias, sandwiches, and breakfast snacks.
The team pride themselves on offering not only great food, coffee, and service with a smile but also a range of options for your business catering.
BYO your own coffee cups for a 40 cent discount off any size coffee purchased.
Location: Building 4N at St Albans Campus
Opening hours: Monday–Friday, 8am–3pm
Catering: View catering details
Sustainability attributes: Milk Bladder system (saving on plastic milk cartons), discount on BYO coffee cups, no gas appliances
Health initiatives: HEAS Traffic Light System.
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Sunshine
Amoka Café at Sunshine Campus is all about specialty coffee. Our goal is to deliver our finest of perfect coffee and fresh food experience to students and staff at the Victoria University, as well as to the wider community.
Our partnership with renowned Sensory Lab and St. Ali coffee roasters, ensures that the finest beans from around the world are sourced to deliver our customers a coffee experience like no other. Try it yourself — stop by today !
Contact us to arrange catering for room bookings. View our menus:
Location: Building A, Ground floor at Sunshine Skills Hub (Building A, Sunshine Campus).
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 7am–3pm
Contact us
Phone: +61 3 9919 4091
Email:
Website: amokacafe.com.au
Werribee
Werribee Campus offers freshly made food and drink options for you to choose from at both our Werribee East and Werribee West locations.
External caterers
We recommend VU cafes to support your catering needs on campus.
Our cafes offer catering during general business hours, from morning tea and sharing platters to conference packages. Some of our cafes also offer after-hours catering with dinner packages, cocktails and beverages. You can rest assured that our cafes comply with all relevant laws and regulations.
Our preferred external caterer is Mabu Mabu. Mabu Mabu is an Indigenous-owned food business with a mission to make native ingredients the hero of the Australian kitchen. They comply with all relevant laws and VU requirements. For more information, email or download the Mabu Mabu catering menu.
Otherwise, you may want to consider other external caterers if you have:
- specific event requirements - e.g. food trucks for Open Day
- cultural requirements - events that require cultural offerings
- a large group - group sizes that our cafes can't accommodate
- a student-led event - e.g. a fundraising sausage sizzle.
Vending machines
Vendy is the VU vending machine provider. They offer an impressive range of drinks and snacks with an important focus on healthy options. These cold drink and healthy snack options are sold at competitive prices.
All drink and snack machines include the Victorian Government's Healthy Choice Guidelines (HEAS) colour coded 'Traffic Light System':
- Best Choice (Green),
- Choose Carefully (Amber)
- Limit (Red).
You can purchase coffee, accessories/tech and PPE from other vending machines on campus.
If you have any issues or feedback, please contact Vendy on 1300 008 881 / and quote the vending machine reference number (recorded on a sticker on the top left of the glass panel).
Find a vending machine within a VU campus:
Retail pricing information
VU aims for a balance between affordable options for students and supporting on-campus cafes.
We collaborate with our on-campus cafes, conducting annual price reviews, and comparing menus with local cafes and other universities. This information helps our cafes set appropriate prices for students, while considering operating costs.
Deals on-campus
Competitive coffee rates:
- VU small coffee (BYO cup) - $3.90-$4.30.
Small coffee (BYO cup) & basic-filling bread lunch:
- $12.50-$16.30.
Healthy lunches - sandwiches & wraps:
- chicken, cheese & avocado sandwich: $8.90 - VU Bar
- ham & cheese and cheese & tomato piadina: $9.90 - The Common
- fresh salad sandwich with a meat option: $10.90 - Noodle House
- pesto chicken & avocado wrap: $11 - Reading Room
- chicken snitzel roll: $11 - Amoka
- rotating selection of wraps & foccacias: $12 - La Eatery & La Tradie.
Affordable hot lunches:
- spinach & cheese quiche (v) with side salad: $9 - Reading Room
- veg burger: veg patty, lettuce, tomato, onion & home-made sauce: $12 - La Tradie
- fried rice: $12.90 - The Common FN
- pasta bowl: $12.90 - The Common St Albans
- tofu noodles: $12.90 - Noodle House
- lasagna: $13 - La Eatery
- bento box: $14.90 - The Common City
- beef burger (dine in): beef patty, egg, lettuce, tomato & relish. Served with chips & salad: $17.90 - VU Bar.
Combos & meal deals:
- half size lunch - simple piadina - ham & cheese/cheese & tomato - $6.90 - The Common
- plain croissant & standard small coffee/tea (breakfast only) - $7.50 - Reading Room
- ham & cheese croissant/toastie/bagel & standard small coffee/tea (breakfast only) - $9.60 - Amoka
- wedge sandwich & water - $9.90 - The Common FN & City
- hot main (pasta/lasagne/curry) & water - $14.90 - The Common St Albans.
Queries & feedback
If you would like to provide feedback related to on-campus cafes please access the Café Survey Form.
For any urgent retail matters, or feedback regarding vending, please email .
Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts in the Cafe Survey which ran 2–20 June 2025.