Crossroads Café is a training school of the Delancey Street Foundation, the country's largest and most acclaimed self-help residential educational center for people who have hit bottom to completely rebuild their lives. Like the immigrants who came through Ellis Island to Delancey Street on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the last century to start new lives, newcomers to Delancey Street Foundation are "immigrants" of all races, all ages, all backgrounds, who come together in this community of last resort.
For 40 years, Delancey Street has provided a home
and all services to thousands of residents at no cost to the client
and no cost to the taxpayer. We support ourselves through private
donations and through enterprises such as this café which train
our residents and also provide income. We pool our resources. All café proceeds after product
costs go directly to house, feed, and clothe our residents and teach
all the skills, values, and attitudes needed for a successful drug-free
and crime-free life in the mainstream of society.
For our residents, Delancey Street is the true crossroads
of life. In choosing a new road — the one less traveled —
they draw strength from each other and the community. Since our
inception, Delancey Street has sought to keep alive the best traditions
of America united with innovative approaches: an extended family,
the work ethic, people joining together committed to change, to
hard work and a "can do" confidence, to discipline and
dignity, to self-respect and service to others.
Our café follows this same principle. Here, at Crossroads
Café, all tastes converge. Traditional favorites, new harvests and
new ideas. The finest specialty coffees from around the world available
by the bean or by the cup. Over 40 types of teas blended and brewed
to perfection. Juices freshly squeezed to order; smoothies made
in 15 zesty combinations with nutritional boosters available to
add health benefits to the pleasure. Breakfast with homemade granola
and waffles made from scratch and lots of fresh pastries we make
daily. H&H Bagels, "the world's best bagel" are flown
in from New York and bakedoff daily by us. Salads and sandwiches
and platters that are comfortable and homey and filling. Wines and
beers, italian sodas and bar foods. Nonfat yogurts and rich, creamy
ice creams in flavors like Mitchell's Macapuno
Sweet Coconut. We have art for all budgets from signed R.C. Gorman,
Dali, andMiro lithographs to posters, all of which we can frame
for you. Our books range from fiction and poetry to the latest cook
book,magazines and newspapers to buy and others just available
to browse through while relaxing.
 Not only is our food fresh and homemade, our entire
café is "homemade" as well. We built the structure, hand-carved
our bar, hand-built the bookcases, poured and cut the concrete,
and developed the acid wash stain for our floor. In an incredible
show of community support, Howard Lester, the CEO of Pottery Barn
donated our fabulous furniture and dishes. Curl up on a Pottery
Barn Malabar Sofa and relax with a cup of Yin Hao Jasmine tea. Or
hop on Pottery Barn bar stools, reminiscent of the "olde soda fountains",
and sip a mocha fudge milk shake "to die for." The Cafe was voted in the top 10 for CITY'S BEST the last two years for Family Friendly Restaurant in the AOL San Francisco Cityguide and receives 4 out of 5 stars from Yelp. Read some more customer reviews here and here.
So many wonderful people have put part of themselves
into our café. It is a reflection of the idiosyncrasies of each
of us as well as the cross-cultural blending of all. But it can't
come together without you. We hope you truly relax and enjoy yourselves
in our "home." If we can do something better, please tell
us.
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699 Delancey Street
San Francisco, CA
415-512-5111
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