Food help and good food, without the runaround

Help Find Food answers two questions for people in Ottawa: where can I get food today if I can’t afford it, and where can I get the thing I’m craving. Both are hard to answer well. Program hours live on dozens of separate websites and PDFs. Restaurant directories rank whoever pays, and rarely show a menu.

So we read the sources directly. Today the site covers 105 food programs, 2,808 places to eat, and 2,766 menu items read from 260 restaurants’ own websites. Every fact links to where it came from and the date we checked it.

What we promise

• No restaurant or program can pay to appear or to rank higher. If we ever show a sponsored listing, it will be labelled and kept apart from results.
• Food-support pages need no account, set no advertising cookies, and never share what you look at.
• If we don’t know something — hours, a price, whether a dish is vegan — we say so rather than guess.
• Corrections are free, for anyone, and we act on them.

Who runs it

Help Find Food is built in Ottawa by Baldwin Industries. Write to us any time at support@helpfindfood.com.

Help Find Food is not an emergency service. If you are in danger, call 911. For food help by phone, call or text 2-1-1.