Hope begins with a Meal

Philly House is the city’s only provider of three meals a day, 365 days a year. We serve more than 10,000 meals each month to anyone who walks through our doors.

Guest + Resident Mealtimes

We open our doors 365 days a year with a welcoming spirit to walk alongside the homeless, hungry and hurting—offering physical aid, stability, restored identity and spiritual recovery—so that they may activate their God-given potential. Philly House is the city’s only provider of three meals a day, 365 days a year. We serve more than 10,000 meals each month to anyone who walks through our doors.
Meals are available to anyone regardless of gender or any other factors.
**Breakfast:** 7:00 - 8:00 AM
**Lunch:** Noon - 1:00 PM
**Dinner:** 5:00 - 6:00 PM
Every day the Philly House Homeless Services team and volunteers take time to sit down with guests during meal times to eat together. These family meals foster a sense of belonging and are an opportunity for guests to consider their next steps toward stability.

What We Do

Our guests come for shelter and food, and also find a holistic, empowering refuge from the streets through deep, intentional care.

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Guests enjoying fresh meals — Our Food

At Philly House, we strive to provide nutritiously balanced, low-sodium meals. Each meal contains a fruit or vegetable and protein. Whenever possible, we serve fresh salad at one meal time each day. All meals are created from fresh ingredients purchased and prepared by our professional cooking staff.
We depend on the generosity of supporters to provide donated food to supplement the food we purchase.

carversville farm foundation

Starting in 2023….

Carversville Farm is a 100% organic food producer in Bucks County that could be providing their high-quality meats and vegetables to the region’s five-star restaurants. But they don’t. They have a higher mission: feeding the Philadelphia region’s homeless and food insecure.

Why? Because everyone deserves excellent food, not just people who can afford it.

Co-founders, Tony and Amy D’Orazio, grew up in Philadelphia, America’s poorest large city, and saw deep poverty up close. They saw that fresh, nutritious foods are often off the table for Philadelphians in poverty. They felt called to change this—by founding a philanthropic farm.

In 2013, they purchased land in Bucks County, PA, an hour north of Philadelphia, and set to work building a 350-acre organic farm of the highest ecological and quality standards - to grow chef-quality food, all for free donation to feed communities in need.

Philly House’s first full year as a Carversville Farms’ partner was in 2023. Each week like clockwork, hundreds of pounds of food arrived at our door – all free – all the best. And it wasn’t just what they happened to have. The staff and volunteers at Carversville plant exactly what we request and deliver it exactly when we need it to meet each week’s menu requirements. This enables our incredible kitchen staff to make nutritious, flavorful meals that guests rave about.