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Mory's Association Inc
4 reviews for Mory's Association Inc
As an undergrad, I'm a little befuddled by the review below... huh?
Mory's, for me, is all about toasting and Friday lunch. You have to be with a member to get in, but it's easy to find one/become one. Monday nights I think a capella groups sing for all the alums.
Friday and Saturday is really where it's at at Mory's, though. Groups (like the band, political parties, a capella groups) get together to go 'toasting.' Mory's brings you a big cup - more like an enormous chalice - that is a certain amount of soda and alcohol depending on how many people who are over 21 you've managed to convince to come with the group (they've gotten really strict about IDs since the crackdowns at Toad's!), and then you pass the cup around and toast according to certain very long-standing traditions. That's all I can say on teh internets. Dress for toasting is 'western business attire,' which really means whatever you want.
I have actually eaten at Mory's - the thing to get is the Werebit (am I even spelling that right?) which is a piece of bread baked in cheese and beer. Yeah, haven't had it. I get the Chef's Salad, which is really a rather pretty arrangement of fruit and stuff on some mixed greens. It's good. It's also only $8. The people who sit next to me are usually jealous.
If you're doing the undergrad or w/e thing at yale, go to mory's! Especially go toasting. It's an experience.
Yale is at once a tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends. Where else is more "Yale" than Mory's. Singing groups abound throughout the academic year, more especially on Monday nights when the Whiffenpoof's come in to sing.
The walls are covered with pictures of Yalies of years past, with oars from crew regattas hung from the ceilings and classbooks stretching back to time immemorial lining the walls of the library... but most importantly the tables are carved with the initials of all those who have gone this way before us. Add your own initials to the tables, but bring your own knife.
As to the food, if fits into a certain genre... somewhere around English I would guess... and is pretty good these days! When I first visited Mory's, I felt unwelcome and the food did not help much in that respect... but with recent changes at the club... the food has improved (try the salad Anton with salmon, its fantastic), along with the presentation (many thanks to the staff at the club, in particular Jan, Jim and Robin for the numerous aesthetic changes), but they still maintain the staples... such as, what I believe to be the life giving blood of existance... Baker's soup, and of course everyones favorite grown up drinking game, cups.
When attending the club, for Mory's is more than just a restaurant, but is a private club with the largest membership in the United States (or last I asked it was), be sure to wear a jacket and tie for men and comparable attire for ladies... all in the spirit of "Keeping Mory's... Mory's"
After all, wouldn't it be nice to "sit down together... over a meal... over a cup... over a lifetime."
I was never a "real" Yalie, so I find this place kindof ridiculous. I mean it's a men's club of sorts where they're known for passing around a chalice full of liquor and baking a piece of bread in egg, beer and cheese and calling it delicious. Let me tell you, it's not.
Don't get me wrong, it's certainly an experience and I suggest it to anyone looking for strange traditional things in New Haven, but unless you're invited by a member to check it out, it's really not worth the effort. Honestly, I didn't even know the place existed before my friend insisted that I go and have a wherebit with him. Bleh. Although I find it humorous that something that Dubbya created at DKE now appears on the elite Mory's menu.
The food is bad and way overpriced. The cups are fun (but weak... so bring your own alcohol and spike it). Toasting is also an experience that you must do as an undergrad, even if in this day and age, it feels a bit forced.
I'm always confused as to why people would actually eat here on a regular basis. The food is TERRIBLE. But a visit once or twice a semester can be a fun experience.