SAME Cafe
The SAME Cafe is a nonprofit community cafe with locations in Denver, Colorado, United States.
The SAME Cafe is a nonprofit community cafe with locations in Denver, Colorado, United States. Brad and Libby Birky invested $30,000 to open the original restaurant at 2023 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, on October 20, 2006, inspired by their background in community service and a visit to the One World Cafe in Salt Lake City, Utah. They opened the second SAME Cafe site in November 2022, in the Main Library of Toledo, OH and closed the location in 2025. The name is an acronym for "So All May Eat", and their motto is "healthy food access for all". They offer higher quality food in a pay what you can format where the diner puts what they feel their meal was worth in a donation box. They also accept a 1/2 hour of volunteer help in exchange for a meal, made possible by Colorado laws which do not require a food handlers certificate for restaurant workers.
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Getting to SAME Cafe
- Airports
- Denver (DEN), 28 km · City of Colorado Springs Municipal (COS), 106 km
- Stations
- Union Station, 3.5 km · Theatre District / Convention Center, 2.9 km
- Colorado Springs → SAME CafeTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Albuquerque → SAME CafeTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Salt Lake City → SAME Cafe11456 km · quickest by air, 21h 14m · $1,610–2,490
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SAME Cafe is 2 km from Denver, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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