What's the Lycée Cantine?

The Lycée Cantine Project was born from our families’ shared desire to move beyond the daily challenge of lunch boxes and toward a sustainable, long-term solution that provides students with fresh, healthy, and high-quality meals prepared right here at school. It is the result of an ambitious community fundraising effort initiated in Fall 2024, designed to build a professional kitchen that will produce a high-quality, hot and delicious lunch program for students and staff on all three of our campuses.

Meals are prepared in the professional kitchen hosted on the Ashbury campus, and food prepared there is transported to both other campuses. Lunch service is operated by Acre, a Bay Area leader in school-based food programs, that staffs our kitchen and prepares the made-from-scratch meals. 

Acre’s mission aligns closely with our goals, emphasizing real and healthy food:

• Locally sourced and organic when possible
• Humanely raised, grass-fed meat and free-range poultry
• In-season local produce
• Menus are kept intentionally low in sugar

Each lunch includes:

• A hot entrée (with a vegetarian option)
• Seasonal side dishes
• Homemade soup
• Salad bar
• Locally-baked breads
• Dessert: fruit served four days a week, with one day offering a freshly baked sweet treat 

The Lycée Cantine will start operations at Back-to-School 2026 -may be even for August summer camps! Stay tuned for more news about this important community project.