The app is live

Real food, cooked by
your neighbours.

Home Cooked Meals connects you with home cooks nearby, order a proper, home-made plate for collection or delivery, straight from someone’s kitchen to your door.

5.0
average kitchen rating
100%
of tips & earnings kept by cooks
The Home Cooked Meals app showing local kitchens to browse in Manchester

Our mission

Bringing you the comfort of home.

Experience the taste of home.

Our mandate
To give hope and opportunity to those who need it most, by turning what they already have into a way to provide.
Our vision
A world where those who need it most can provide for themselves, and every community is enriched by the flavours and cultures of the people within it.

Browse

Every kitchen on the app is real, local, and cooking today.

See what's on the menu from home cooks near you, from Caribbean jerk chicken to a proper Italian lasagne with ratings from people in your own community.

The Home Cooked Meals app showing favourite kitchens including Jerk Kings and Italian cuisines

Order

Build your plate, tell them what you need, pay in a tap.

Add dishes to your basket, leave a note if you've got allergies or dietary needs, and check out securely, no phone calls, no cash on collection.

The Home Cooked Meals app showing an order basket for Jerk Kings with jerk chicken and oxtail

Catering & events

Need a kitchen for something bigger than dinner?

Hire a local cook to cater your next event, a work dinner, a birthday, a multi-course tasting menu at home. Post what you need and hear back from kitchens near you, or accept a kitchen’s own request to host your event.

Plan an event
The Home Cooked Meals app showing an events tab where a customer can hire a kitchen to cater

Trust

Every order ends with a rating, so quality never slips.

Once you've collected or received your food, you rate the kitchen. It keeps every cook accountable to the neighbours actually eating their food.

The Home Cooked Meals app showing a five-star rating left for English Cuisines

How it works

From someone’s stove to your table, in three steps.

  1. 01

    Find a kitchen nearby

    See who's cooking in your area today, Caribbean, Italian, English and more, all made in home kitchens close to you.

  2. 02

    Order what you fancy

    Build your plate, add a note for allergies or dietary needs, and pay securely in the app.

  3. 03

    Collect or get it delivered

    Pick a collection time that suits you, or have it brought straight to your door, still warm.

For home cooks

Turn your kitchen into a business your neighbours already trust.

Open a kitchen on Home Cooked Meals, set your own menu and prices, and start taking orders from people nearby, with a 1-week free trial to see how it fits.

Open a kitchen
You keep what you earn
Every order goes straight to you. Home Cooked Meals doesn't take a cut of your food sales.
One flat monthly fee
A single low subscription covers your spot on the platform, no per-order commission, no surprises.
Get paid out on your terms
Set your own payout schedule, daily, weekly, monthly, or trigger it manually whenever suits you.
The HCM Partner app showing a kitchen's menu, including fried chicken and vegetable rice with goat meat

Manage your menu

The HCM Partner app showing a monthly breakdown of revenue, profit, and margin per menu item

See what's selling

The HCM Partner app showing monthly earnings, gross profit, cost of goods, and margin

Track your earnings

Get started

Your next meal is cooking a few streets away.

Home Cooked Meals is live now, with more cities on the way.