Soup Kitchen

Haley House Soup Kitchen

The Haley House Soup Kitchen offers fresh, made-from-scratch meals six days a week. 

23 Dartmouth Street, Boston, MA 02116 Get Directions

Breakfast: Monday – Friday 6:15-9:30am, meal from 8:00-9:30am

Afternoon Meal Service: Friday 2:15-5:30pm

Sunday Meals: Sunday 10am-2:30pm, meal from 12-1:30pm

In our kitchen, home-cooked meals bring people together to foster friendship and meaningful community. 

Feeding the body and mind

Our homemade meals are prepared with food sourced through local organizations, primarily Spoonfuls and The Greater Boston Food Bank. Each day, our Soup Kitchen Leads work alongside volunteers, including local college students, neighbors, and Soup Kitchen guests, to plan and prepare a nourishing menu. Since 1966, more than 2 million meals have been served in our bustling kitchen, made possible through the generosity and dedication of our volunteers and staff.

More than a meal, the Soup Kitchen is a place of welcome and community. Guests are greeted by name, music fills the room, and lively conversations take place around the dining tables. With its open kitchen and dining area, the space is designed to feel warm and dignified—a place where everyone is invited to share a meal and be part of the community.

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At the end of each shift, volunteers and guests are invited to take part in a short reflection, encouraging personal contemplation and dialogue about systems that breed division, inequality, hunger and poverty and creative alternatives to these systems.

Sample language to share with your attorney:

“I bequeath to Haley House, 23 Dartmouth Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116, [the sum of __________ Dollars ($____)] [ _______ % of the rest, residue and remainder of my estate], to be used for its general charitable purposes.”

Sample language to share with your attorney:

“I bequeath to Haley House, 23 Dartmouth Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116, [the sum of __________ Dollars ($____)] [ _______ % of the rest, residue and remainder of my estate], to be used for its general charitable purposes.”