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Welcome to Obs Pasta Kitchen!

The Obs Pasta Kitchen is not about handouts. We are a weekly community dinner in Cape Town that offers support, community and a hot meal once a week with the aim to uplift everyone and anyone who enters our safe space. 

Prepared and served with love, our catch-phrase has become “We can taste the love in the pasta”

It is our OPK-way to start each and every dinner service with a guided meditation at 5pm, followed by our volunteers not only serving food but engaging in uplifting conversation. We are here to create an inclusive, stress-free and homely atmosphere, a dinner in good company enjoyed with a good conversation often enhanced by music or a delightful cupcake. It’s about giving those often overlooked and ignored the dignity and acknowledgement we all deserve. 

The Obs Pasta Kitchen offers a plate of food with a side-helping of hope for a better future. By holding hands with our guests and the organisations in and around our community, we can best help those seeking support and direct them accordingly.

JOIN US!

Volunteer ANY or EVERY WEDNESDAY ❤️

Wednesday Dinner: 16h30 for 17h00 service until 18h15

No need to RSVP – Just arrive 🤗

Where?

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St. Michael & All Angels hall 

(entrance in Bedford Street, Observatory, off St. Michaels Rd)

Not just a “soup kitchen”

Soup kitchens are known the world over for offering a warm plate of food to the hungry. Observatory has always been a little left-of-centre and so we evolved the concept to create the Obs Pasta Kitchen.
Every Wednesday evening we offer a hot bowl of pasta to the many needy residents (often homeless) and passers-through in Observatory. But more than providing a meal it’s about creating connections –
A known dilemma of charity organisations is that handouts solve short-term problems but perpetuate longer term ones. To truly help the homeless and needy our goal should be to empower people to help themselves.

❤️ Why we do what we do ❤️

It means a lot to many. And whether it’s hunger or connection or both, we bring the love always ❤️

Many guests have shared why OPK is important to them – Words mentioned are:
🌸The delicious pasta
☀️The conversation
❤️Getting to connect with people they don’t usually get to connect with
💕Catching up with friends
🥲Something they can rely on
🤗Every Wednesday is special because OPK is the only consistent thing some people have

Contact

Donations

You can donate directly to Obs Pasta Kitchen to support us in feeding the bellies, minds and hearts of our community!

EFT

Obs Pasta Kitchen
FNB account 63029684247
Branch code 250655
Swift code FIRNZAJJ

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