Welcome to the Drydock Restaurant
The legendary Drydock Restaurant, located in Dahlgren Hall, offers a menu of delicious ‘made to order’ deli-style sandwiches, and grilled items. The Drydock Pizza is the best in town. Drydock Restaurant is open to the public and offers a special menu for group events.
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- Drydock Group Menu Pre-Order option for groups larger than 15 or groups on a tight schedule: If you are planning your day around a tour, or you have limited time to visit the USNA Yard, you may want to consider Pre-Ordering your meal from our Group Menu. Many tour groups and schools use this option because we offer reserved seating and your pre-ordered meals are made fresh and timed to be ready when you arrive.
- Group reservations can be handled via FAX (410-293-2226), email (moyer@usna.edu or drydock@usna.edu) or via regular mail. We do not accept reservations by phone. Please see the Groups tab below for additional information.
- Groups larger than 30: Reservations at Drydock Restaurant require proof of tour reservation from the Armel-Leftwich Visitor Center. Please fax your tour confirmation to Drydock at 410-293-2226 when making your reservation.
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Dahlgren Hall
Drydock Restaurant’s dining room has a seating capacity of 150, with additional seating for 32 in the indoor Deck (café) area adjacent to the dining room. At times, Drydock hosts large groups of between 50-400 people which either dine at tables or picnic on the Assembly Hall floor. Before reservation confirmation, you will be informed as to what seating accommodations are available to your group. The seating accommodations are largely dependent on the size of the group. Chairs and tables may require an additional charge for large groups. When groups are scheduled to picnic, the ‘picnic cloths’ used are made of kraft-paper with custom printed ‘cartoon ants’ to keep alive the ‘picnic spirit!’
Assembly Hall
The Assembly Hall (formerly the Brigade Ice Rink) is large room with a 195 foot-high arched ceiling adjacent to Drydock Restaurant and is may be used for overflow seating, schedule permitting. Originally the USNA Armory, the room was used to store cannons, but is now used for various USNA formal events and reunions, Midshipmen tumbling practice, fencing practice, marching during inclement weather, Navy Camps, Midshipman Testing, and hosting large group meals.
Wright B-1 Flyer
A model of the historic battleship USS Antietam and a replica of one of the Wright Brother’s planes, the B-1 Flyer, are suspended from the ceiling at either end of the massive Beaux-Arts style building. The second floor balcony is accessible to the public via the original marble stairway, and lined with poster sized photographs of activities throughout the history of Dahlgren Hall. The first floor (Assembly) room is open to the ceiling, giving the room a spacious feeling of grandeur and history.
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- Distance: Drydock is walking distance from the Visitors Center and Gate 1 (Main Gate to USNA). Many of the tour groups let their guide know that they have reservations at Drydock and the guide will plan to finish the tour at our door.
- Scheduling: Drydock can have a group of 80 who have pre-ordered from our Group Meal Menu/Contract seated and eating their lunch within 10 minutes of their arrival, and it is only a 5 minute walk back to the Visitor’s Center to get on the bus again. For planning purposes, this means, for groups of 75 or less, you would have time to dine with us and be back at your bus an hour later if time is of essence provided you arrive on time for your reservation at Drydock.
- Groups: While anyone is welcome to come in and order off the Restaurant Menu without a reservation, we do not recommend this for groups larger than 15. There is a larger variety of menu selections available in the restaurant and the food is made while you wait in line, but for those not on a tight schedule, this is a great option. See the Groups tab for information about scheduling a group for lunch.
- Handicap Accessibility: Two of the three public entrances into Dahlgren Hall are Handicapped Accessible. The entrance off Cooper Road, (Closest to Gate 1) and the entrance off Kelly Court are both Handicapped Accessible. The front door entrance to Dahlgren Hall is not Handicapped Accessible. If you are facing the front entrance to Dahlgren Hall off Fullam Court, an access road/ramp that runs between Dahlgren Hall and Bancroft Hall is to your left and will take you to Kelly Court. Drydock doors are through the tunnel, and into the parking lot, to the right.
- Reserved Seating: Our policy does not permit us to reserve seating for anyone other than those who pre-order from the Group Menu Form/Contract, which is streamlined to make it possible for groups to dine with us and still make their tight time-schedules.
MIDREGS (COMDTMIDNINST 5400.6P) Section 6.12.4 (page 6-11)
4. With regards to the use of Drydock:
a. All Midshipmen may purchase food for take-out after 1915 on Monday and Wednesday and after 1800 on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Midshipmen must be in uniform (Blue and Gold jogging suits or better) or appropriate civilian attire (based on class rates and liberty status). PT gear is not authorized in Drydock.
b. 1/C may sit in Drydock Monday through Friday after 1915 (Mon/Wed) or after 1800 (Tues/Thurs/Fri) in Blue and Gold Jogging Suits.
c. Drydock is open for Midshipman sit-down use during individual class town liberty times. Uniform is authorized liberty attire. Working uniforms and Blue and Gold Jogging Suits are not authorized during liberty except for 1/C and 2/C on Fridays after 1800.
d. 4/C are authorized sit-down use of Drydock on Sunday afternoons in uniform of the day.
Reservation Availability: Please contact Drydock at drydock@usna.edu for reservation availability. Many groups reserve as early as one year in advance of their arrival.
Group Menu Form: As far as pricing and menu selections go, for Drydock to reserve seating for a group, they must order off the Group Menu/Contract. There is a non-refundable $25.00 deposit to hold the reservation, (which you want to send with a signed and completed part #1 of the Group Menu Form as soon as you know your date in order to hold it for your group). The deposit is credited to the balance due for the meals on the day you dine with us. The Balance due must be paid on the day of the event, and in one payment (please have money from the students collected before coming to Drydock if paying in cash). We also accept Visa, M/C, AmeX and Group Checks.
Please see our Group Menu/Contract for more details. Group Menu Contract and Selections must reach Drydock’s Reservation Desk at least 7 days in advance of your reservation via either fax, email or USPS.
Food: Drydock Staff uses the freshest of ingredients, all prepped, sliced and made into sandwiches the morning that you are expected. Our pizza is hot out of the pizza oven, timed to be brought out at the time of the reservation. All our food is very great! There are no bad choices!
Allergies: Please contact the reservation desk via email or fax if you have other dietary restrictions, and we will do our best to provide you with a meal that you can enjoy with your group. Our sandwiches do not contain condiments, just tomatoes, lettuce and whichever meat and cheese combination was selected. There is a condiment table in the dining room where customers can choose what and how much they would like. Our pizza dough and cheese are nut-free.
Caveat: We make our own pizza, and time it to come out of the oven at the time of your reservation. We have found that younger students love our pizza and suggest to teachers that they take this into consideration when ordering ahead.
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