Los Angeles

Home Cooked.Hand Delivered.

Real chefs, cooking from their own kitchens.

Next delivery — Thursday.

A note from us.

By 6pm on a Wednesday you have two real choices.

One is heat-and-eat — Factor, CookUnity, Green Chef, etc. The meal is fine. It costs $12-15 a person, arrived in dry ice four days ago, was cooked for thousands of people in a kitchen you'll never see by a chef who doesn't know your name, and then refrigerated, packed, trucked, delivered, and left on the porch for three hours before you opened it.

The other is DoorDash. By the time tax, service fee, delivery fee and tip have all settled in, you're lucky to spend less than $100. It's hot, it's fast, and tomorrow night you'll do it again.

Both have something in common. Neither was cooked for your house. Neither knows your kid won't eat onions. Both use wasteful packaging and expensive delivery.

What's missing -- a real meal, cooked today, by someone who knows your family enough to leave the onions out. For roughly the cost of the groceries. No subscription, no shipping, no BS.

— Friendly Foods

What a typical week can look like.

Add or skip meals. Only pay for what you eat. Confirm up to 12 hours before delivery.

Sun
Menu sent
Mon
Meals delivered
Tue
Menu sent
Wed
Meals delivered
Thu
Menu sent
Fri
Meals delivered

This week

What your chef is cooking.

BLT Chicken Salad

Instant Pot–shredded chicken and crisp bacon tossed BLT-style in a smoky, creamy dressing, packed over chopped romaine with a whole wheat tortilla for wrapping.

Beef Kofta

Spiced beef kofta baked and broiled on sheet pans, served with warm flatbread, cool garlic yoghurt and quick sumac onions.

Mango-Lime Chia Pudding with Maple Nut Granola

Creamy blended mango and lime chia pudding, packed family style with a small batch of maple-toasted nut and seed granola to spoon over at the table.

BLT Chicken Salad

Instant Pot–shredded chicken and crisp bacon tossed BLT-style in a smoky, creamy dressing, packed over chopped romaine with a whole wheat tortilla for wrapping.

Smoked Paprika Red Lentil Soup

A velvety red lentil soup built on smoked paprika and coconut milk, finished with lemon and spinach, packed with crisp olive oil crostini.

Cottage Cheese & Scallion Breakfast Sandwiches

A hand-held breakfast worth waking up for: a tender baked egg round and a sweet-savory maple chicken patty on a toasted English muffin, with cool avocado aioli alongside.

The average cost.

$6.25

a portion.

Same ingredients. Same cooking. Different bill.

	Heat-and-eat	Us
Ingredients	$3–4	$3–4
Cooking	$2–3	$2–3
Packaging & ice	$2–3	—
Refrigerated transit	$3–4	—
Corporate overhead	$2–3	—
Per portion	$12–17	$6.25

Pay for what you eat.

No subscriptions. Ever.

No shipping fees. No minimum. No tip. No subscription you have to remember to cancel.

Be the first to know.

Drop your email and ZIP. We'll write the moment we're cooking in your neighbourhood.

One email when we launch. No spam, no subscription.

Common questions

Subscription?: No, ever.
Out of town?: Nothing arrives.
Picky kids?: Your chef will know.
Allergies?: Tell your chef. They cook it themselves.
Where?: A few neighbourhoods in Los Angeles. Adding more.
Just dinner? Just breakfast?: Whichever you and the chef settle on.
How do I start?: Drop your email and ZIP. We'll let you know when we're cooking near you.