Delancey Street Restaurant, San Francisco
Delancey Street Restaurant is a key training school of the Delancey Street Foundation, the country's largest self-help residential organization for people who have hit bottom to completely rebuild their lives. Like the immigrants who came through Ellis Island to Delancey Street on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the century to start new lives, newcomers to Delancey Street Foundation are "immigrants" of all races, all ages, all backgrounds, who come together in this community of last resort.
OUR STORY
Delancey Street has provided a home and all services to thousands of residents at no cost to the client and no cost to the taxpayer. We earn our money through enterprises such as this restaurant which train our residents and also support our operation. All tips are considered donations, and all restaurant proceeds after food costs go directly to house, feed and clothe our residents and teach all skills, values and attitudes needed for a successful drug-free and crime-free life in the mainstream society.
Since our inception, Delancey Street has sought to keep the best traditions of America alive: an extended family, the work ethic, people joining together committed to hard work and a "can do" confidence, to discipline and dignity, to self-respect and service to others. The food in our restaurant follows this heritage in that it is familiar cuisine: comfortable, homey food, connecting us to family memories. Our menu, which changes daily, combines foods from residents' particular ethnic or regional backgrounds with traditional American cuisine. Many of our recipes come from our grandmothers, and we try to focus on the ethnic idiosyncrasies of each as well as the cross-cultural blending of all.
