The Downtown Welcome Table: FREE Community Meal
The Haywood Street Congregation
297 Haywood St, Asheville, NC 28801
USA
There are four seatings each Wednesday for lunch at 10:30, 11:15, 12:00 and 12: 45 and three seatings each Sunday for dinner at 3:45, 4:30 and 5:15 PM. All are welcome and reservations are not necessary!
The Downtown Welcome Table rests on the assumption that food is a primary means of grace, a way to love and connect. It is a homemade meal served on abundant platesby an attentive wait staff.
Lunch and dinner are served family style and folks are invited to linger over the meal as in a nice restaurant or dinner at home.
Cloth napkins, flowers on the table, and china plates send the message “you deserve the very best” and are meant to counter the notion often held by those living on the streets that handouts, hand-me-downs and leftovers are all I deserve.
Never intending to be a soup kitchen or feeding line, we want our meal to be a crossroads of diverse community, a gathering of disparate folks, a fork and spoon invitation to prince and pauper alike.
People who might not otherwise come to know each other develop a friendship over a shared meal.
If you are bringing a group, please contact us in advance so we can be sure to prepare enough food: Emily@haywoodstreet.org or 828-575-2477, ext. 106.