The Table: soup to warm the soul, charity to warm the community

Lincoln's The Cup has become one of my most recent and favorite discoveries. It sits on a quiet street just off 25th and Randolph, offering “simple food, fair trade coffee & tea, and organic baking.” Their menu includes a scrumptious Patisserie selection of cakes and pastries that changes daily and can be made to order. The Cup also offers an extensive menu of coffee and tea beverages, as well as an assortment of homemade paninis, soups and salads, all crafted from fresh, healthy and wholesome ingredients.

They have rightfully earned a decorated resume of honors for culinary excellence, but nothing is more delicious and respectable than their genuine support for Lincoln's community, which is the main ingredient in everything they do.

The Cup is a chief supporter of the fair trade movement, committed to the delicate ecosystems of third world countries, social change through the world’s second largest traded commodity-coffee, and to their customers’ health. They uphold these values in many different ways, but most locally and perhaps directly with the creation of a community based soup kitchen.

On weekdays, their mouthwatering soups are served at downtown Lincoln’s Café Indigo (another one of my favorite spots – soon to be featured in my blog ☺). Café Indigo, Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, Bread & Cup and The Cup have teamed up to create this community based soup kitchen called The Table. The Table serves The Cup’s soup and Bread & Cup’s bread at Café Indigo’s downtown location.

This is quite possibly the best creation imaginable with three of Lincoln’s best places to eat and drink ALL IN ONE, and just when you think it can’t get any better it does.

The genuinely friendly volunteers serve this tasty meal of soup and bread at no price but your own. They encourage and appreciate a donation that pays for the cost of the food. As they welcome any form of donation, they most importantly value the gift of community. That is the philosophy of The Table: Unlimited Soup. Unlimited Bread. Unlimited Philosophy.

You haven’t truly discovered Lincoln until you have discovered The Table. It is these humble and heroic efforts of Bread & Cup, The Cup, Indigo Coffee, Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, and every single person, donation, smile and conversation flourishing at The Table, that make our community so rich and delicious. Not to mention, you can’t get a meal this good anywhere else.