If a community lacked a synagogue and a shelter for the poor, it was first obligated to build a shelter for the poor.
–Seder Hasidim
When you give food to a hungry person, give him your best and sweetest food.
–Maimonides, Mishneh Torah Hilchot Isurei Mizbayach 7:11
The NYT has a story about a kosher tamchui–soup kitchen–in Borough Park that’s got something right, it seems:

The storefront, on 14th Street in central Brooklyn, in one of New York’s largest Hasidic communities, serves only hot kosher meals. Its operators say it is the only soup kitchen of its kind in the city,…
Thursday was more crowded than usual because the kitchen was serving steaks–juicy, 16-ounce kosher shell steaks. Seconds were even available.
…
Masbia, the Hebrew word for “satiate,” serves 160 meals five nights a week. “We wanted to make it look like a restaurant,” Mr. Rapaport said, “because people in our community don’t want to be seen going to a soup kitchen — it’s highly embarrassing.
“But we’ve had people come in and eat and ask where they pay. We have to tell them, ‘No, you don’t pay.’ People here are kosher so they won’t go to any other soup kitchen. It’s come here or starve.”….
Two men at Table 6 would give only their first names. “I don’t want people in my synagogue to know I come here,” said one of the men, Meyer, 55, who lives in Flatbush. Meyer said he had been unemployed for six months and recently went back to work as an optician. He enjoys the camaraderie at the soup kitchen.
“They treat you like a mensch, not a second-class citizen,” he said.

Full story here.
And here’s your bonus link, to Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger.
(Bloggy thanks to Justin.)