Grapevine Vendor Rep. Grades Local Meals

Review by Mike Voorhees

Meal Site	Address	Grade	Comments
Antioch Baptist Church	8869 Cedar	C-	"I ate there once… not bad. Just a little too far to walk from Downtown."
St. Augustine Center	2486 W. 14th St.	B	"It was really great when they served a hot breakfast."
Cosgrove Center	1736 Superior	C	"The meals have gotten better over the years."
Food Not Bombs	(serving on Public Square)	D	"I really don't like their food… gotten sick a couple of times. But at least they try to help others."
Franklin Circle Church	1688 Fulton Ave.	C	"The food is all right. They have gotten things under control since they got the police in there."
Mercy Seat Mission	3510 Broadview	B	"The times I went there, the food was good."
Northeast Community Meals	8108 Pulaski	N/A	"Never went to a meal there."
Salvation Army Mobile Canteen		C	"Not too bad."
St. Herman	4410 Franklin	F-	"I really don't like St. Herman's because you don't know where the food comes from. And it's dirty in there with the dogs and some of the people who stay there."
St. Malachi Church	24501 W. 25th St.	B+	"Good meals - Breakfast and dinner."
St. Patrick Church		C+	"The meals are alright. Good helpings sometimes."
Salvation Army	6000 Hough	N/A	"Never ate a meal there."
Trinity Cathedral	2230 Euclid	C-	"The meals are OK, but it's too crowded."
Victory Baptist Church	2045 W. 47th St.	F-	"I have not been there in a while… Maybe they have cleaned the church up since then. The few times I went there, it was not good."
West Side Catholic	3135 Lorain	C	"Has gotten better since they re-modeled the center. The food has gotten better also."
St. Luke		C	"The food is good there. They bring it to the tables, like eating at home. They could use the police in there, because it gets out of hand sometimes."
Calvary Church	W. 65th St.	B	"Thursday is soup day. They have pretty good soup. They're nice people."

Copyright Homeless Grapevine, Cleveland Ohio Issue 81 June-July 2007