Dorms in the UK usually have a decent kitchen. Mine was like this [1] (the adjacent building to the one pictured), which is nicer than the houses affordable to students in London.

Only one dorm offered cooked evening meals, and then only Monday-Friday. It was a fair bit more expensive to take this dorm.

In any case, most universities only offer dorms for the first year.

[1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/ImageCropToolT4/imageTool/uploade...