Women & Children's Free Restaurant

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Women & Children's Free Restaurant

We currently offer two monthly curbside dinner & grocery events. Registration is full for 2025 and will reopen in 2026.

If you need food assistance, call 2-1-1 for resources.

10/29/2025

Does your life sometimes feel like a circus? We feel you! This fun, creative take on Halloween is a treat for you. Give us a LIKE or LOVE if you'll enjoy a night off from the kitchen! 🎃👻🎪🤹‍♂️🤡🦇🧡

10/25/2025

Ladies, boys, and ghouls...BOO to you from our crew! Don't forget to carve a reminder into your calendar for a dinner that's a bit over the (big) top! Give us a LIKE if you don't mind a little scare here and there, and prepare for frights, delights, and a mystery menu of tasty curiosities. We're not clowning around; it will be quite a spectacle!

10/21/2025

Chili and cinnamon rolls bring back school memories for us at WCFR! Does it for you? Please give us a LIKE or LOVE if it does for you too, or if you enjoy this fall favorite! 🧡

10/17/2025

Holy pumpkins, Batman! 🎃🦇 What an awesome way to give back and put smiles on children‘s faces. Kudos to the Washington State Department of Corrections!

10/14/2025

10/07/2025

If you are looking for a place to volunteer your time, we'd love to meet you! Please support our mission, connect with like-minded people, learn new skills, and improve your overall health. We operate Monday-Friday and offer various shifts of 3.5 hours or less. Scan the QR code below to fill out our online application. Thank you!

10/01/2025

Dinner on Blossom Hill was an evening we will never forget! We raised over $100,000 to support our programs serving women and children. We have so much gratitude to share, but for now, we'll share some photos to enjoy!

09/17/2025

Hi Ladies! This week, we have a delicious fall-inspired pork dinner and a bounty of groceries for you. The bonus dinner is cheeseburgers featuring excellent beef from Owens Farms Piedmontese. Team members from AgWest Farm Credit will join our parking lot team to assist you. Our fall hours of noon to 2:00 pm. will start tomorrow. We look forward to seeing you!

09/12/2025

We want to thank WCFR board member Cami and volunteer Bonnie for representing us at Gonzaga University's Volunteer Service Fair this week. GU students volunteer at WCFR every year, and we look forward to more Zags logging service hours in 2025-2026!

09/02/2025

We are just weeks away from our spectacular fall fundraiser! Dinner on Blossom Hill, presented by AgWest Farm Credit, will be held on September 26, 2025, from 6 PM to 9 PM at Barn & Blossom. To see the menu (revealed today!), purchase tickets, and learn more, visit https://bit.ly/4f5dS7b. 🍂🍷

09/02/2025

Hello everyone! We made the decision to move tomorrow's distribution earlier in the day (now 10 AM to 12 Noon). Please give this post a LIKE to let us know you saw it, and share it with your friends who participate in the services we offer. Thank you, and stay cool. We care about you and your families!

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1408 N Washington Street
Spokane, WA
99201

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+15093241995

Website

https://wcfrspokane.org/

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So often in life, we pass through on cruise control without taking the time to stop and really sit with each other. But that all changes when you walk through the door at one Spokane restaurant.

"They not only feed you but they take care of you," said Spokane resident Melinda Brown. "They listen to your story, they ask you questions, they take the time to get to know you as a human being."

Melinda has been coming to the Women and Children's Free Restaurant with her kids Kaden and Soraya three days a week for the last six months.

"This is really a gem," she said.

Melinda is a single mom and realizes how tough to cook a healthy meal for three people every night. When she comes here, though, she finds different meals every week -- for free.

"We get that restaurant feeling but also kind of a home feeling as well. It feels like a second home," she said. "It's helped us immensely. It gives me three days off from cooking, which you know, as a single mom, it's hard to cook a nutritious meal everyday."

Diners like Melinda are treated to a free meal three times a week in a setting that's unlike any food bank or soup kitchen.

"It's actually a dining with dignity experience, so diners show up, there's actually a hostess, they're seated, they're given a menu, which is that choice that so many people who are food insecure don't have in their lives," said board member Ev Hopkins.

Hopkins said from single moms like Melinda to the elderly, there's no average diner at the restaurant. The women and children who eat here are part of the 50,000 in the Spokane area who are food insecure.

"We have single mothers who are trying to stretch their budget. Maybe sometimes we see that more at the end of the month as well when they may have run out of funds," Hopkins said. "There's so much gratitude and so much appreciation for the fact that these women can sit down with their children and have a meal. There's no TV on, they can talk with each other."

The food served at the restaurant is often donated from Second Harvest, food banks, or donors who donate their leftover produce and protein. On tonight's menu? Roast beef, mashed potatoes, brussel sprouts and salad.

"Oh their faces light up. They so enjoy being here. They give us little notes of 'thank you,'" said volunteer Sue Elmer.

An experience and environment like this is something many of us take for granted -- but not Melinda.

"They don't look at you for what you lack," she said. "They see you as a person and they treat you with dignity and respect."

Hopkins and Elmer said the restaurant wouldn't be able to serve families like Melinda's without help from the community. On Thursday, February 14th, the KXLY Extreme Team helped set up a recognition wall to honor all the donors who have helped them along the way.

Story by KXLY Reporter, Taylor Graham February 13, 2019

Find out how you can contribute to the Women & Children’s Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen Capital Campaign here

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