Food Courts

Caelester's food courts began as a means of distributing food around the city after the earthquake, free of charge. At first, they were just simple shelters in neighbourhoods across the city, places where food could be brought and handed out to those in need. The original plan was that, once the city started to recover, these shelters could be torn down leaving room for a couple of market stalls.
However, they became a popular gathering place, a place for people to come together and chat, a staging ground for people working to rebuild the neighbourhood, and so on. Before long, people started adding to them - building a place to sit while they chat, then a bar to store and serve drinks. Then they added kitchens, first just to prepare snacks, then full meals, even adding community oven for baking.
These days, food courts are run as a community. Family cooks bring food out from their homes, enjoying the chance to socialize, work together, and share recipes with each other, as well as taking advantage of having access to a proper oven to cook in - something most commoners didn't have even before the earthquake. Most neighbourhoods hold regular gatherings, generally once or twice a week, where everyone works together to make a good meal and shares it with the rest of the community. These weekly cookouts have become something akin to a miniature Budding Festival, and are a welcome comfort in these trying times.
Naturally, the plan to tear down the food courts has long since been scrapped. However, some are built in a somewhat haphazard way. Some of the Builders, a group currently working on building new homes for those still living in temporary shelters, hope to help these areas incorporate their food court into the neighbourhood and ensure they are structurally sound.