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Long dining tables in an empty hall with a wood-beamed ceiling, ready for supper

East End · free supper first

Come eat. Then stay.

Hot supper is the front door. After the plate, homework, court, and lab stay open. Ages 5–17. Seat, meal, and lineup: $0.

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Dining hall with long tables. Wikimedia Commons.

Place setting · USD · 20 Oct 2026

Three plates. One grocery list.

Not a pie. Not a bar. The fund sits like supper: pledged, already served, still cooking.

pledged$21.20M
Groceries on the list
served$14.40M
Already on the table
still cooking$6.80M
Left in the pot

Why the table

After-school hunger does not wait for a grant cycle.

Bell rings. Fridge is a stretch. East End, Third Ward, Magnolia Park kids walk past taquerias they cannot float every night. Big Table Kids puts the meal first so the rest of the house can work.

Harris County families skip supper more than downtown lunch meetings admit. The gap is after 3 pm: tutoring helps only if a kid can think. We plate hot food at 5:30, then keep the hall open until 8.

Kitchen staff include Spanish speakers. English is the house language on this site. No French program. No tuition. No card on file.

41,000 sq ft hall + kitchen · 2,200 kids on the roll · 28 lineup slots a week

41k

sq ft hall + kitchen

2,200

kids with a seat

28

lineup slots / week

$0

ask at the door

Rooms as recipes

Six stations. Same house.

Court

  1. Indoor floor, after supper
  2. Little Plates shoot first
  3. Water, then homework if needed

Lab

  1. Soldering irons, robots, code
  2. Safety glasses before kits
  3. Big Seats mentor Middles

Studio

  1. Paint, clay, giant floor canvas
  2. No fee for materials
  3. Show work on the kitchen wall

Quiet Table

  1. Tutors, lamps, library chairs
  2. Storytime for Little Plates
  3. Phones down until the page is done

Garden

  1. Herbs and tomatoes for the line
  2. Produce from East End partners
  3. Saturday harvest when the weather holds

Kitchen

  1. Hot line at 5:30, every weekday
  2. Spanish-speaking cooks on shift
  3. Seconds without a form

Week as a menu

Day is a course.

Full ticket lives on the Lineup page. This is the house special.

Open the menu
Mon starterQuiet Table + Lab2–8
Tue brothCourt + Studio2–8
Wed plateGarden crew + homework2–8
Thu heatBig Seats lab night2–8
Fri dessertOpen court, leftover supper2–8
Sat brunchProduce, family tasting10–4
Portrait of Jimmy Donaldson, known as MrBeast
Steven Khan, CC BY 4.0, File:MrBeast_2023_(cropped).jpg

Who paid for the groceries

Jimmy Donaldson funded the pantry. Houston runs the stove.

MrBeast’s charity foundation pledged $21.20M USD for this free hall. $14.40M is already served. Local people plate it: Rosa Delgado on Kitchen + House, Ben Carter on Lineup, Tasha Brooks on Families, Luis Mora on Hands.

This site is independent information. Names belong to their owners. Nobody here will ask you for a card number.

Three courses

Join like supper.

Course 1

Sign up

Name, ages, neighborhood. No fee. No waitlist purchase.

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Course 2

Family tasting

Walk the kitchen, meet Rosa, sit through one 5:30 service.

Ask for a tasting

Course 3

Pick a plate

Little Plates, Middles, or Big Seats. Switch later if the kid grows.

See ages

From the table

Comment cards.

“He eats first. Then he actually opens the math book. That used to be a fight.”

Jamal H., Third Ward

“Kitchen talks to me in Spanish when I pick her up. I do not have to translate hunger.”

Sofia L., East End

“Saturday produce box plus a quiet table. Magnolia Park is closer than it looks on a map.”

Patrice N., Magnolia Park

Visit

METRO Rail to EaDo/Stadium, then a short bus ride down Navigation.

2103 Navigation Blvd, Houston, TX 77003. Red Line to EaDo/Stadium. Local bus along Navigation Blvd. Bike racks on the Navigation side. Street parking is East End tight — bus is kinder.

Mon–Fri 2–8 pm (dinner 5:30). Sat 10–4. Sunday the stove is cold.

+1 (713) 555-0175
table@bigtablekids.org

Houston METRORail train marked UH-Downtown at a downtown fountain plaza
Houston METRORail, Main Street Square. Wikimedia Commons.

Hands

Need a shift on the line?

School supplies, sports gear, and produce keep this kitchen honest. Come stand a plate.

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