Food Services
Campus Restaurants and Cafés
Mount Vernon Campus
Backdoor Bakery
The Backdoor Bakery is a student-run bakery for the Culinary Arts program at Skagit Valley College. Students produce a wide range of scratch-made breads, cakes, cookies, tarts, and chocolates.
Location: Next to the Culinary Garden, across from the Norwood Cole Library.
Hours: Tuesday – Thursday 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Cardinal Café
Cardinal Café is a student-run restaurant for the Culinary Arts program at Skagit Valley College. The menu showcases students’ talents and abilities as part of their capstone projects.
Location: Behind the cafeteria in the Cardinal Center. Enter through the Cardinal Center or from the outdoor entrance across from the DuVall Pavilion.
For reservations, email cardinalcafe@skagit.edu or call 360.416.3999.
Note this is a classroom setting. The food may not be served as quickly as a restaurant. Please be patient with our students, and if you are in a hurry let us know.
Hours: Closed until Spring Quarter
Mobile Food Lab
Skagit Valley College’s Mobile Food Lab is run by students in the Culinary Arts program. Students gain hands-on experience and culinary skills in a mobile food truck setting.
Location: Parked by Lewis Hall
Hours: Closed
Student Grounds: Coffee Shop (Operated by Cardinal Bookstore)
The Mount Vernon campus coffee shop serves brewed coffee as well as grab-and-go snacks and drinks.
Location: Inside the Cardinal Center Lobby
Hours:
Monday - Thursday 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Friday 8 a.m. - 1 p.m.