NOW SERVING
We are thrilled that City Cuisine is now available for the Columbia community to enjoy! We serve a rotating menu of flavors from around the world (including some American favorites!); a “global fusion” of sorts.
Where To Find Us?
We are parked at the City of Refuge building, 10 N. Garth Ave. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram to keep up with when we will be serving.
Want to utilize our catering services or host an event on our patio? Request to book a date HERE.
Please reach out to cuisine@cityofrefugecolumbia.org with inquiries on how we can be a part of your next event!
Why?
Funded by a workforce empowerment grant, our goal is to help prepare refugees for the possibility of entering the culinary workforce in America. From commercial kitchen equipment, to food handler’s permits, to knife sharpening skills… there is a lot to learn. Our hope with this initiative is threefold:
- To provide the training, experience, and English language needed to successfully enter kitchens across the city
- To set our entrepreneurial friends up to launch their own restaurants in the coming years. We envision a city filled with restaurants featuring authentic, yummy food from all over the world. We want to equip our friends to share their food on a larger scale, providing the business acumen and managerial experience to do so.
- To be able to provide part-time employment and supplemental income as newcomers need it (maybe even some of our moms who have kiddos enrolled at City Preschool!)
We also look forward to the awareness a food truck can bring to the community. Every day we encounter folks who don’t know about City of Refuge, who don’t know that there are thousands and thousands of refugees who live in mid-Missouri, who don’t even know what a refugee is.
