Caring Cuisine - Discounted or Free Meals for Evacuees
Elan and Brett own Barceloneta, a Spanish restaurant in Santa Cruz. They became a partner kitchen for World Central Kitchen
Thanks to World Central Kitchen and its partners for serving nearly 30,000 meals across CA over the past couple of weeks. Read their stories & if you can help, please consider donating to World Central Kitchen.
We hope you’ll enjoy a wonderful meal and a bit of respite from these generous establishments. For everyone else, please consider frequenting these establishments that show care for the community during this challenging time.
Caution: Please check with the establishment before ordering to confirm / clarify offer and ensure it’s still valid. Some offers only apply on certain days or for select meals. Some are only at speciifiic locations. This is provided as a service based mostly on facebook posts and have not been vetted..
Best wishes & Bon Appétit !
- These terrific restaurants & your friends at Neighbors Helping Neighbors - San Mateo County
HELP US HELP YOU - Let us Know if You Find Others or Have New Info
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Multiple Locations
Hobee’s is offering Breakfast to Go at any of their 5 locations Monday-Friday from 8am-2pm for two weeks starting 8/24. Note that this potentially means it ended today (9/7) so call to confirm. Cupertino location closed.
Locations include: North San Jose (River Oaks), Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Redwood Shores
Mention Camille Finch Chijate owner & that you’re an evacuee. Thanks so much Camille!
Campbell Locations
LVL Up
arcade and gastro pub
400 E Campbell Ave, Campbell &
also 409 S Second St in San Joses (not sure if offer applies to both locations)
(408) 429-8472
Their website seems to be broken so look at Yelp / call for inifo.
San Jose Spots
Tony & Alba’s Pizza & Pasta
3137 Stevens Creek Boulevard, San Jose
Closed on Monday, Tues.-Sun. 10am-7:30pm
(408) 246-4605
Santa Clara Spots
1550 Halford Ave. 95051 Santa Clara
authentic Thai food
Open all 7 days for lunch & dinner
M-F 11am-2pm, 5-9pm
Sat / Sun 12-2pm, 5-9pm
For everyone: Shelter-in-Place Promotion. Show the cashier this coupon (on their website) to receive 10% off on all items if you order with us directly and pick it up in-store. Offer not valid with other offers.
Santa Cruz Spots
FREE LUNCH PROGRAM FOR FIRE EVACUEES
The Santa Cruz County Emergency Operations Center is providing free meals for evacuees of the CZU Lightning Complex fires.
Starts Tuesday, Sept. 8
Recovery Resource Center
Kaiser Permanente Arena
140 Front St., Santa Cruz
Center is open from 11am-7pm daily
Meals provided by an anonymous donor are available to residents who have been processed through the center and are from participating restaurants, including My Mom’s Mole, Woodstock Pizza, Barceloneta, Rogue Pye, Half Moon Bay Brewing, Kickin’ Chicken, Full Steam Dumpling, Feel Good Foods and Hanloh Thai Foods.
Individually packaged & ready for pickup around noon
Only available to CZU Lightning Complex evacuees.
103 Lincoln St, Santa Cruz
100% Vegan, 100% Organic
Specializes in gourmet raw and cooked cuisines
Open 11am-10pm
(831) 427-9583
Convergence
Despite the name, seems to be in Fulton
A Ministry
Partnership with 1440 Multiversity, Operation BBQ Relief, and Felton Presbyterian Church
Provides 70 breakfasts (9 am), 70 lunches (12 pm), and 70 dinners (5pm) DAILY
Available first-come, first-served for evacuated persons/families only.
Felton Presbyterian Church
6090 Highway 9
Felton, CA 95018
Oyunaa’s Mongolian Cuisine
Traditional Mongolian Restaurant
1209 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz
Open for Dinner on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 5-9pm
Friday & Saturday from 5pm-10pm
Closed Tuesday and Sunday
Peduto
Saturn Cafe
Soif
Togo’s
Tramonti
Scotts Valley Spots
Ribs, Steaks, Burgers, Sports Bar
Kings Village Shopping Center
230 Mt Hermon Rd, Scotts Valley, CA 95066
(831) 438-2227
Closed Monday & Tuesdays; Wednesday & Thursday: 12-9PM (last order 8:30), Friday & Saturday: 12-10PM (last order 9:30), Sunday 12-9PM (last order 8:30)
The Offer: (links to Facebook post; check there for updates)
They’ll donate dinner twice a month every other Wednesday at 7PM starting 9/9 for families who lost their homes. They will block off the upstairs outside area for families to eat and depending on response, set up different times to make sure people are safe and socially distanced.
We wish it could be more, but this is all we can afford at this time.
To request this lovely offer, please send the following information to jo@brunosbarandgrill.com:
Name, Address where your home was located or FEMA number if you have it. (We are truly sorry to have to ask this, but there are people out there whose intentions are not good.), # of people, Vegetarian Y or N, Gluten free Y or N, List food allergies, Dine in or takeout.
They will confirm via email to set up a specific time for you/your family to receive dinner.
Sunnyvale Spots
Dim Sum King
Dim Sum is the Chinese version of small bites.
824 W El Camino Real Sunnyvale
Mon to Fri: 10am - 7pm
Sat: 9am - 7pm
Sun: 9am - 6pm
(408) 739-1551
Unknown Locations
Prespohone
Norma’s Coffee