You are currently browsing SF Food Not Bombs’s articles.
On Thursday June 10th, a chapter of Food Not Bombs in the Diablo valley area attempted to serve food at the Concord farmers market in the Todos Santos plaza to the homeless and underprivileged. The Contra Costa Health Department with the assistance of the Concord Police Department ordered the group to cease operations and confiscated all of the group’s food and supplies. Click here for the Indybay story with more info.
Dangerous peace activists safely quarantined by gentile police in an effort to keep hungry park goers from eating disgustingly tasty homemade food
UPDATE: on 6.17.10 a crew of SF FNB people and supporters rode bart down to the Concord serving to show some solidarity and support. Apparently the police showed up again to try to intimidate and shut down the food serving. Fortunately they were too timid to stir up anything with the new numbers of supporters and the serving went through as planned 🙂
My friends! It is nearing that time of year when Food Not Bombs begins to prepare for the Chez Gay Cafe. This is our third year of serving at the Trans March and we want to do something a little different. We are encouraging everyone to bring something for a picnic/potluck style meal. Please bring vegan or veggie stuff to share. We may have even have a grill for veggie burgers. All friendly people are welcome.
Save the date: Trans March, June 25th, Dolores Park, 3pm ish. By the Palm Grove
—
Mon ami! C’est le temps de l’année où Food Not Bombs commence à préparer le café Chez Gay. C’est notre troisième année et nous encourageons tout le monde à apporter de la nourriture à partager un pique-nique. S’il vous plaît mettre végétalien ou végétarien alimentaire. Nous pouvons avoir un poêle pour cuire des hamburgers végétariens. Tous les gens sympathiques peuvent assister
Plus de détails à venir. Où: Festival transgenres., le 25 Juin, Dolores Park, 15:00
Keith McHenry, one of the original founders of Food Not Bombs (FNB) returned to SF on April 25th as part of a nation-wide tour to promote the 30th anniversary of Food Not Bombs. Today, people will be celebrating this occasion at Soupstock in Boston, MA.
Kieth McHenry shared many thoughts, ideas, and experiences at the meeting and also showed a video of his work in Nigeria. It was very revitalizing to see how FNB has spread to so many nooks and crannies across the globe.
Some things we talked about that SF FNB could use work on were the following:
- Developing flyers
- Having a literature table (to point people to other local happenings)
- Spreading solidarity among other organizations & groups
- Manage the phone and email
Keith McHenry getting arrested for serving food in the early says of Food Not Bombs
These things were discussed in connection with attracting new volunteers to help support SF FNB. One useful tip he mentioned for literature and flyers was to tie rubber bands around them (to keep them from blowing away).
People are already working on these projects but if you or anyone you know would be interested in helping out, please give us a holler on our email list.
Last Updated February 2026
- contact us:
- wednesdays:
- email sffnbvolunteers@riseup.net
- call/text (415)484-3288
- fridays:
- email fnbsanfrancisco@gmail.com
- call/text (415)890-3184
- wednesdays:
- visit our serving schedule page and email contacts for specific days you are interested in
- serving every week unless stated otherwise via network and social media
- join our email list and post there
- show up at a serving and get directly involved!
- social media
- instagram: @foodnotbombs_sf
- twitter: @sffoodnotbombs
Food Not Bombs is a loose group of people who turn their personal house kitchens into soup kitchens for the public at least once a week.
We’re holding a Vegan Chili Competition Benefit Fund raiser, Complete with a handcarved FNB medal for the honor of the BEST VEGAN CHILI of SF! We’re going to have Shirts/Zines, Dirty South DJ’s, House Chili (Vegan) Cornbread. Throw on your best Flannel print and throwdown your Best Vegan Chili!!!
The Door is FREE and sliding scale $7 to ENTeR into the Contest. Chili Entries close at 4pm Plz cook @ home and bring it here!!! RSVP an entry spot to get in for sure, but if you BRiNG CHili, you can ENTeR @ the place.
GET READY 4 SOME GOoOoOoD CHILI!!!!! chiheee (did I just say that? really?)
| Title: | Vegan Chili Showdown Hoedown SF ¡¡Food Not Bombs!! Cookoff Contest |
| START DATE: | Sunday January 10 |
| TIME: | 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM |
| Location Details: | |
| 3030B 16th @ mission. Station 40 xxxxxxx Across 16th st. Bart xxxxxx |
|
| Event Type: | Fundraiser |
| Contact Name | Theo |
| Email Address | Ginjavitus [at] riseup.net |
We just received word that, tomorrow night, 12/3, Guest Chef Thomas Martinez’s Mission Street Food serving will be benefiting Food Not Bombs. Proceeds will help us buy the few things we can’t recover or otherwise manage for free — oil, cups, spoons, etc! Thanks!
Details:
Thursdays
Starting at 6pm
Starting at 6pm
2234 Mission St
(Lung Shan Restaurant)
Now is also a great time to volunteer with FNB! We’re always looking for people who want to host a kitchen or otherwise coordinate a serving. We can provide you with food hook-ups. You can do it with friends or leave it open to strangers!
From Theo: We've been working on putting together an SF meeting for FNB on sunday Oct. 18th starting at 3:30p, Station 40 (3030b 16th St). I've been hearing alot of good ideas from alot of people and we're interested in hearing more. Some but not all of the ideas/needs I've heard include; Banners Bulk orders of food oil, spices, coffee, etc Bike Carts/Hand Carts Bulk rice and Beans Distro Organizing a network of people down to support actions FNB Merch, like zines, Shirts, and collectable fine china Cup distro Financial Transparency Getting more Markets on our side. 5013c Status j/k I feel like we got to work on making our Food Not Bombs communal, and economically/environmentally sustainable.+ I heard the angry fist will drop the carrot and slap your face if you don't show up, not really don't worry though it might send curry packs to your front door. Send stuff to the list or to me if you have ideas for the meeting, and stay in touch!
SF FNB is going to setup a park near polk and sacremento on parking day, september 18th. Please come join us around noon — -we’ll have a grill, lounge chairs, food, coffee and more!
update: thanks to everyone for coming out to our first parking day! here are some photos (taken by Tami)
On Sunday, August 30, 2009 — FNB is coming together in solidarity with SF
CHRP, (Committee For Human Rights in the Philippines), POCAT, People of
Color Action Theater, members of Iraq Vets Against War and several other
community organizations and collectives that oppose gov’t repression
against political groups and individuals fueled by US military aid, will
be commemorating the “International Day of the Disappeared”, which will be
held at the SF Library (Koret Auditorium area), 100 Larkin Street (by
Grove St.) from 1:30pm – 4:30pm. The purpose of the event, (not
demonstration, sorry about the confusion) is to raise awareness, share
stories, show film documentaries and cultural performances on the unjust
human rights violations and inhumane situations happening all over the
world.
So come and cook with us at station 40 (3030b 16th st), and we can serve
food to anyone who shows up. Cooking starts at 10:30am. Event is at 1:30 –
4:30 PM (Thank you, Pati POCAT and ARCO member)
For more info on the event Contact Angelica at sfchrp@yahoo.com
To help with the FNB email me, Theo @ ginjavitus@riseup.net
summer meeting attendance was much lower than what we expected. what we talked about these things in no particular order:
- we will spend the entirety of the FNB treasury on lasers
- coordinated about rainbow pick-ups
- new saturday serving, possibly a sunday serving
- possible serving at the anarchist olympics
- need to brainstorm ideas for getting cups, spoons, etc
- we condensed to make cannibalism an exception to FNB’s veganism (only if they are right-wingers/fascists?)
San Francisco Food Not Bombs 