St Vincent Depaul

Lots of volunteers make this place possible serving warm meals to the homeless as well as providing financial assistance.

This hasn’t been mentioned, and should be made clear: The St. Vincent De Paul dining room is 100% free, and has NO payed employees! The facility is run by volunteers who cook and serve the food provided.
Anyone who is hungry is welcome into the dining room, and is served a hearty lunch — NO QUESTIONS ASKED.
The volunteers give out good portions of food, and before the dining room closes you are allowed to go through for seconds if there is enough food.
That being said, this is no five-​star lunch, and some of the entrees and sides are questionable at best, but you really cant complain about a free lunch.
I know on Saturdays free clothing, shoes, books, and sometimes magazines are put in the dining room for those who need it. Fruits, veggies, and other food are also occasionally put out for the taking depending on availability. On Fridays the food pantry is open.
I don’t know what the previous reviewer’s problem is. If he doesn’t like the *free* lunch he is receiving, maybe he should go somewhere else. It makes me sad that SVDP’s resources are being wasted on someone who doesn’t appreciate them.
Four stars for the SVDP dining room! Where you can go for a free lunch and friendly service — 100% run by volunteers! No questions asked! An impressive operation by any standard.

Their last inspection score can be viewed at
and was ⁷³⁄₅ 70 is failing. They had 5 critical violations found in the last inspection. I would think twice before eating there again unless you don’t mind eating from food and dinner ware others have handle with dirty hands. Or don’t mind eating in an environment fraught with safety issues.
I was served my meal on a broken tray 10 times. It is known to some that as many as 25 such trays have been served. You sit down for a peaceful meal and staring you in the face is this fuzz filled crack in the midst of your tray. No big deal things happen I’ll just turn it in they surely want to know about such things. I get another tray and it’s fine. Next day same thing, broken tray, replaced, third day is just chocked full of dejavu it happened all over again. A fourth time and my minds going gee these folks are singling me out for this. I’m a bit excited, they get on the defensive, I ask for this tray it is orange and I like Orange but more important is this one was broken nearly half its width across. Were not talking paper plates this stuff is tough Melamine. I asked if they were watching for them as they came out of the dishwasher. At one point they sat down and did a full inspection of all the trays. But I kept finding one here one there. The cracks were barely visible but I know exactly where to look. After reporting 10 trays I developed a knack at finding this pesky crack. Several fire code violations. Yes I reported that they were refusing to unlock doors to a fire exit on the weekends. Now I can see that has been fixed from the road with my camera. All this has lead to my being banned from their establishment. For making it a safer place for both guests and volunteers alike. Check your local health department before you choose to eat at one of these. I can not believe a dishwasher would handle clean utensils after unloading dirty ones from the dishwasher without washing their hands but yuk it happens here. Kind of like picking your nose over the soup kettle. Volunteers aren’t supposed to eat while serving but they do. A few actually do eat in the dining room as they are supposed to do.
My last day there I was called aside by the acting President and was told I was being banned from the premises because I raised my voice. A metaphor for sharing my concerns with the authorities.