21st Annual Empty Bowls Luncheon
May 30, 2023 - May 30, 2023
About the event:
This event supports our programs, which allow us to connect neighbors across Southeast Nebraska to nourishing meals. Each attendee leaves with a hand-crafted stoneware bowl of their choosing from Down Under Pottery. The empty bowls symbolize the bowls our community has filled over the years and the bowls that still need filling.
Date, time & location:
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Embassy Suites, 1040 P St. in downtown Lincoln
Ticket information:
SOLD OUT! Tickets to Empty Bowls 2023 are no longer available for purchase.
Participating Restaurants:
Asian Taste Thai Restaurant Chicken Thai Coconut Soup
Billy’s Restaurant Creamy Vegetable Noodle Soup
Buzzard Billy’s Crawfish Bisque
Casa Bovina Short Rib & Onion Soup
ChefauChef Catering Pozole
Courtyard by Marriott- Lincoln Downtown/Haymarket Thai Green Chile (gluten free, vegan)
Embassy Bar & Grill Champagne Chicken Pot Pie
Great Plains Culinary Institute Corn Bisque
La Paz Black Bean Soup
Lazlo’s Brewery & Grill Tomato Basil
Muchachos New Mexican Pork Green Chile
This year’s featured Partner Agency is the Center for People In Need. Stop by their booth at Empty Bowls to enjoy delicious soup and learn more about CPIN’s 20th anniversary and partnership with the Food Bank of Lincoln!
Event Sponsors:
Head Chef ($15,000+)
Peed Foundation
Rogers Foundation
Union Bank & Trust
Soup Kitchen ($5,000)
BIC Construction
Edward Jones
TAB Performance
Soup Bowl ($2,500)
Baxter Toyota-Lexus of Lincoln
Chesterman Coca-Cola
Famers Mutual of Nebraska
Hexagon Agility
Molex
Nelnet
Pinnacle Bank
Sid Dillon
SL Recruiting
Time Machines
Zelle HR Solutions
Soup Ladle ($1,500)
Ameritas
Cline Williams
INSPRO
Lincoln Surgical/Sutton Eye Surgical
Q2
RKD
Talent Plus
Soup Spoon ($750)
Assurity
B & R Stores
Black Hills Energy
First Interstate Bank
FNBO
HBE
Legacy Retirement Communities
Midwest Bank
Peetz Koerwitz & Lafleur, PC LLO
Sinclair Hille Architects
Speedway Motors
United Way of Lincoln/Lancaster County
Van Horn Custom Homes
Wellness Pharmacy