Meals

Outdoor meals

These meals are open to all.

Seattle Outdoor Meal Site
6th Ave. & Columbia under Interstate 5 (no mail)

• Weekdays:
  • Operation Sack Lunch: Monday through Friday breakfast 8-9 am.
  • Operation Sack Lunch: Monday through Friday lunch 1-2 pm.
  • The Lord's Table: Monday through Thursday dinner 7:30 pm - 9 pm.
• Saturdays:
  • Set Free Ministries: Saturday cold lunch 11 am - 12 noon, second and fourth Saturday of the month only.
  • Bible Study Outreach Ministries: Saturday lunch 12 noon - 1 pm, every Saturday.
  • Seed of Abraham Pentecostal Church: Saturday snacks 1-2 pm, second Saturday of the month only.
  • Restoration Life Church: Saturday lunch 2-3:30 pm, second and fourth Saturday of the month only.
  • Neighborhood Cooking Foundation: Saturday lunch 2-4 pm, second Saturday of the month only.
  • Snoqualmie Valley Alliance Church: Saturday dinner 6:30-8:30 pm, fourth Saturday of the month only.
  • Street Feeding Ministry: Saturday dinner 4-5:30 pm, first, third, and fifth Saturday of the month.
  • Neighborhood Cooking Foundation: Saturday dinner 6-7 pm, first Saturday of the month only.
• Sundays:
  • Magic Works Alumni: Sunday breakfast 8-10 am, November - March only
  • Mother's Kitchen: Sunday brunch 10 am - 11 am third Sunday of the month only
  • AOK Friends: Sunday lunch 1-2 pm, except third Sunday of the month.
  • AOK Friends: Sunday lunch 12 noon - 1 pm, third Sunday of the month only.
  • Curry Temple: Sunday lunch 2 pm - 3:30 pm, third Sunday of the month only.

All of the above meals are provided at Seattle Outdoor Meal Site.
Verified 03/10

Food Not Bombs
206-933-5708
mailing address: P.O. Box 45523, Seattle, WA 98145-0523
Email:fnb@scn.org

Vegetarian dinner served Sunday approximately 6 pm in Occidental Park. Usually also has free produce and bread. Food Not Bombs also hosts 2 other free produce distributions:

• Saturday Free Market, 12 noon at Yesler Community Center.
• Cascade Free Market, Sunday 1:30 pm at Cascade Peoples Center.

Other "open" meals

These meals are free and open to all.

Millionair Club Charity
206-728-JOBS
206-728-5627
2515 Western Ave., Seattle 98121

Meals served:

• Mon-Sat 6:15 a.m. - 7 a.m.
• Mon-Fri 12 noon - 1:30 p.m.

Closed Sundays.

Blessed Sacrament Church
206-547-3020
5050 Eighth NE, Seattle 98105

Meal Sunday, noon-2 p.m. at Parish Hall on 8th Avenue side of building, open to all.

Food baskets with ID Friday 10:30-noon. For food baskets, must have ID demonstrating residency in area bounded by the Ship Canal/ Lake Union, First Ave NE, 20th Ave NE, and NE 70th Street. Bus routes 66-67.
Verified 09/10

Friday Feast
206-632-5163 (voice mail)
1415 NE 43rd, Seattle 98105
email: ya_shelter@hotmail.com

Fridays 5:45 p.m. - 7 p.m., University Methodist Temple Church, NE 43rd and 15th NE, enter by the blue doors in the alleyway, south end of church.
Verified 08/10

Immanuel Lutheran
206-622-1930
1215 Thomas St., Seattle 98109

Community meal last Sunday of each month at noon.
Verified 03/10

Seattle Indian Center
206-329-8700
611 12th Ave. S., Suite 300, Seattle 98144

Lunch Mon.-Fri. 12 noon - 12:45 p.m. Open to people of all ethnicities.
Verified 03/10

Phinney Neighborhood Soup Kitchen
206-784-1040
St John's Lutheran Church
5515 Phinney Ave. N., Seattle 98103

Free meals:

• Crown Hill Lutheran Church, 1501 NW 90th Street, Monday 12 noon - 1 p.m. On #5 bus route.
• St John's Lutheran Church, 5515 Phinney Ave. N., Tues 5-6pm. On #5 bus route.
• St John's Lutheran Church, 5515 Phinney Ave. N., Wed noon-1pm. On #5 bus route.

Community Lunch on Capitol Hill
206-484-7427
1710 11th Ave Seattle, WA 98122

Open to all: Tuesday and Friday at 12 noon.
Verified 03/10

Asian Counseling and Referral Services
206-695-7522
3639 MLK Jr. Way S. Seattle, WA 98144

Open to all: Friday 10:30 AM.

Also, various weekly meals at several different times and locations for elderly of various Asian and Pacific Island nationalities, call for details.
Verified 03/10

Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church
1729 Harvard Ave

Free, family-style dinner the first Sunday of every month from 5-7 p.m. Located right behind Seattle Central Community College.
Verified 12/2012

Meals for youth and/or young adults

Teen Feed
206-229-0813
mailing address: 4740-B University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105
email: eric@teenfeed.org

Meals for youth and young adults, age limit 13-25 (ID required).
Meals served nightly except Saturday:

• Sun 7-8pm at Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave NE.
• Mon 7-8pm at University Lutheran Church, 16th Ave NE & 50th, entrance is down the stairs off the lawn at the corner of 16th and 50th.
• Tue 7-8 pm at University Temple United Methodist Church, 15th Ave NE & 43rd, entrance is in the alley behind the post office, the blue doors at the south end of the church.
• Wed-Thu 7-8 p.m. University Congregational UCC, 16th Ave NE & 45th, entrance is down the stairs off 16th..
• Fri 7-8pm at University Christian Church, 15th Ave NE & 50th, entrance is off the alley at the south end of the church (enter the alley off of 50th).

YouthCare's Orion Center
206-622-5555
1828 Yale Ave., Seattle, WA 98101
(corner of Stewart St. and Denny Way)

Breakfast Mon-Fri 8:30 a.m., hot meals Mon-Fri at 12:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Youth ages 13-21.
Verified 9/09

Burrito Friday
First Covenant Church
400 East Pike Street, 98102
206-322-7411

For Capitol Hill youth 22 and under. 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. every Friday.
Verified 1/07
Needs verification 09/10

Other meals

Angeline's Day Center
206-436-8650
2025 Third Ave; Seattle 98121

Meals for women 18 years of age and older. No I.D. required. Breakfast 8:10am-8:40am, lunch 11:30-noon and 12:30-1pm, and a snack 3pm-3:30pm, 7 days a week.
Verified 12/09

Family Kitchen
206-322-2447
mailing address: 331 17th Ave. E., Seattle 98112

Free meal served M-F at St. James Cathedral (Columbia Street between 9th & Terry Avenues). Doors open 4pm, meal at 4:30pm, doors close 5pm. Serving women, children, families, and single men over 55. Handicap accessible. Vegetarian option often available.
Verified 09/10

Meals On Wheels
206-448-5767
Fax: 206-448-5756
2208 2nd Ave, Seattle 98121

Meal and grocery delivery for homebound persons 60 or over. $3.00 per meal if able to pay. Food stamps OK for groceries. Also meals for homebound persons under 60, $4.50 per meal.
Verified 09/10

Union Gospel Mission
206-622-5177
318 Second Ave. Ext. S, Seattle 98104

• Free breakfast 7:30-8:00 a.m., 8:15-8:45 a.m., and 9:00-9:30 a.m., seven days a week.
• Free lunch 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Mon-Sat.
• Free dinner 5:30-6:30 p.m. seven days a week.

Verified 05/2011

Bread of Life Mission
97 South Main Street, Seattle, WA 98104
206-682-3579

Mon - Fri, "All welcome":

• 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Coffee and Starbucks "treats".
• 12:15 p.m. - 1 p.m. Lunch.
• 5:30 p.m. Dinner (must sit through chapel first).

Verified 09/10

Saint Spiridon Orthodox Church
400 Yale Ave N, Seattle 98109
206-624-5341

"Feed The Hungry" free lunch for the needy and the homeless. Last Saturday of each month, from 11am to 1pm. Parish hall entrance on Yale.

Verified 7/10

Family & Adult Service Center (FASC)
206-441-8405
2013 Third Ave., Seattle 98121

Lunch served daily 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Dinner served daily between 5-7 p.m. Mainly a drop-in center. A pass for meals may be obtained anytime during business hours.
Verified 1/07
Needs verification 09/10

Chief Seattle Club
206-292-6214
113 Cherry St. Seattle, WA. 98104

American Indians only: Monday through Friday, 7 am to 9:30 am.
Verified 03/10

Related Seattle Crisis Resource Directory topics:

• Food Banks.

• The City maintains a web site about Emergency Food Programs If you are trying to understand Seattle's current strategy for feeding the hungry (as against just trying to work out where to get a meal) this is probably the place to look.

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