12/29/2025
🥳 Louisville Free and Low-Cost Food Resources🥳
Updated December 2025
If you are hungry today, you deserve to eat. No shame, no lectures, no hoops.
🚨Pay What You Can Restaurant🚨
The Table Café
📍 1800 Portland Ave, Louisville, KY 40203
⏰ Monday to Friday 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
🍽️ Pay what you can, no one turned away
🌐 tablecafe.org 
🚨Free Hot Meals🚨
St. Vincent de Paul Open Hand Kitchen
📍 1026 S Jackson St, Louisville, KY 40203
⏰ Lunch 12:00 PM and Dinner 5:00 PM, every day
🍽️ Free meals for anyone who walks in 
Franciscan Kitchen
📍 748 S Preston St, Louisville, KY 40203
⏰ 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM, Monday to Friday and Saturdays except the 1st Saturday of the month 
Salvation Army Red Kettle Café
📍 911 S Brook St, Louisville, KY 40203
⏰ Breakfast 6:45 AM to 7:30 AM daily
⏰ Dinner nightly, women and children at 4:45 PM then men at 5:15 PM 
Cathedral of the Assumption Daily Lunch Program
📍 433 S 5th St, Louisville, KY 40202
⏰ Lunch daily 12:15 PM to 1:00 PM 
Feed the City
📍 1100 S 26th St, Louisville, KY 40210
⏰ Monday to Saturday 1:30 PM to 4:00 PM
📞 502-772-5384 
St. Augustine Church Sack Lunches
📍 1310 W Broadway, Louisville, KY 40203
⏰ Monday to Thursday 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
📞 502-584-4602 
🚨Food Pantry and “Find Food Near Me”🚨
Dare to Care Food Bank Find Food Tool
f you need groceries, pantry food, or a mobile pantry near you:
1. Open your internet browser
2. Go to https://daretocare.org/find-food/
3. Enter your ZIP code or address
4. Select what you’re looking for:
• Food pantry
• Hot meal
• Mobile pantry
5. The map will show nearby locations, days, hours, and any requirements (ZIP code, ID, appointment)
No internet access?
📞 Call 502-966-3821
Say: “I’m in Louisville and need help finding food near me.”
They can help you find the closest option.
Metro United Way 211
📞 Dial 211 for up-to-date food sites, pantry hours, and eligibility by neighborhood.
Quick note before you go
Hours can shift around holidays, weather, or staffing. Call first or call 211.