Welcome to A Better World Café, opened Oct. 21, 2009. This is a community kitchen, serving lunch Monday through Friday 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. (with hope to expand into dinner and weekend hours in the future; for now it is weekday lunchtime only). The café’s purpose is to help make a sustainable world where all may eat.  Here’s our menu. You select your portions and pay a fair price through one of the following options:

• You may pay the suggested price or something different. If you pay more, you will help feed someone else who has more limited resources.
• You may volunteer an hour of time in exchange for a meal.
• You may dine on the complimentary dish of the day if you can neither pay nor volunteer.
• You may use the complimentary dish as one of your selections when you are selecting multiple items, to help keep your total cost down.

A New Knid of Cafe

This social enterprise, a partnership between Elijah's Promise and Who Is My Neighbor? Inc., hopes to make healthy eating accessible and affordable for all. A Better World Cafe follows a community cafe model pioneered by Denise Cerreta of One World Everybody Eats in Salt Lake City, Utah.

This new kind of cafe reduces food waste, since customers choose their own portion sizes. It reduces trash because it does not use Styrofoam cups, plastic utensils, or paper plates. And it helps global neighbors because the coffees and teas are fairly traded. The  cafe uses seasonal foods--grown, cooked, and served in ways that make sense for the environment and for the customer's budget.

Community Outreach

Creating livable wage jobs, the cafe employs skilled workers who have been trained at Elijah's Promise Culinary School, and also utilizes volunteers -- some working in exchange for food, others just pitching in to create sustainable eating for all.

The Cafe Newsletter

Sign up for A Better World Cafe's newsletter to receive updates through email. You do not need a Google Groups account to read the newsletter.

A Better World Cafe Blog

The best way to keep up with the cafe is by reading the blog, where you will receive all the latest news, events, menus, and changes.