You Can Help Pay for Meals for the Homeless by Eating at Your Favourite Restaurants This Month

Dine With Heart is a whole month devoted to raising funds for the Sacred Heart Mission's meals program — and you can do your bit by eating out at some of Melbourne's best restaurants.

The campaign brings Melbourne's food community together with a worthy goal: providing free, hot meals to those experiencing homelessness or social disadvantage, by way of food experiences and meals at participating restaurants, bars and cafés.

After kicking off with a gala fundraising dinner at the Palais Theatre this week, the rest of the month will involve pasta masterclasses, pizza and op shop pop-ups, and a whole bunch of participating food and drink venues that are getting involved too. Each venue will be offering something different — for example, St Ali will donate all proceeds from each plate of pancakes sold during May, The St Kilda Burger Bar will give $2 from every Dine With Heart burger, and Park Street will be donating $1 from every bloody mary too. Take a look at the full list here.

Of course, you can get even more proactive and bring Dine With Heart into your workplace — run an activity like a bake sale to raise awareness — or volunteer to host an event in your own home to raise some funds for Sacred Heart.

This year, the aim is to raise $150,000 to help people in need gain access to hot meals and support systems. Every meal the Sacred Heart provides costs $4, so it goes without saying that just throwing a dinner party for some mates could do a whole lot of good for a whole lots of people.

Here's a full list of participating restaurants:

Añada | Fitzroy
Babu Ji | St Kilda
Bella Cosi | Port Melbourne
Big Mouth | St Kilda
Coppersmith Hotel | South Melbourne
Derby Thai | St Kilda
Dog's Bar | St Kilda
Dr Jekyll | St Kilda
Elsternwick 48h Pizza & Gnocchi Bar | Elsternwick
Elsternwick Hotel | Elwood
Fitzrovia | St Kilda
Fork & Fingers | Ascot Vale
Frankies Top Shop | St Kilda
Fuji Tei | St Kilda
Grill'd | Windsor
Icon Coffee Shop | St Kilda
Love and Dysfunction | St Kilda
Lord Newry Hotel | Fitzroy North
Mountain Goat Brewery | Richmond
Parish of Sacred Heart & St Columba | St Kilda
Park St Dining | North Fitzroy
Pasta Classica | Melbourne
Pelican | St Kilda
Pint on Punt | Windsor
Radio Mexico | St Kilda
Republica Lord | St Kilda
Saluministi | Melbourne CBD
South Yarra 48h Pizza & Gnocchi Bar | South Yarra
St Ali | South Melbourne
St Kilda Burger Bar (The Grosvenor)
The Craft & Co | Collingwood
Uncle | St Kilda
Union Club Hotel | Fitzroy
West Beach Bathers Pavillion | St Kilda West
Wine 1160 | Armadale

Dine With Heart will run throughout May. Find more information about how to register here.