Real food, from a kitchen near yours.

Food(ie) connects you with home cooks and bakers in your neighborhood — family recipes, weekend baking, and dishes you won't find at a restaurant. See what they're making, how far away they are, and message them directly.

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Free. Pickup only — you arrange it directly with the cook.

The Food(ie) feed, showing dishes posted by a nearby home cook.

How it works

Three steps, and no middleman taking a slice of the food.

1

Find who's cooking

Browse dishes from people near you, or open the map to see who is closest and how far the trip actually is.

2

Message them

Ask what's in it, when it's ready, whether they can do more. You're talking to the person who cooked it, not a support queue.

3

Pick it up

Cooks post the times they're open. Choose one that suits you both and collect it from them.

See who's actually close

Good food two neighborhoods away is a different proposition to good food around the corner. Food(ie) puts every cook on a map with the real distance from you, so you know before you commit whether it's worth the trip.

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The Discover map in Food(ie), with a cook pinned nearby and their card showing the distance away.
A dish page in Food(ie), showing Soy Onion Pickle at $10 with the cook's profile and an ingredients tab.
The order screen in Food(ie): tick the dishes you want, then choose one of the cook's open pickup slots.

Ordering is a conversation

Pick the dishes you want, choose a pickup time the cook has actually opened, and send it. It lands in their inbox as a message, and you settle the details between you.

  • No card details, no checkout. Food(ie) doesn't process payments — you pay the cook however you both prefer.
  • Only real availability. The times you can choose are the windows the cook opened themselves.
  • One thread per dish. Questions, changes and the pickup itself all stay in the same conversation.

If you cook or bake

Food(ie) is built for people selling what they make at home. Setting up takes a few minutes and costs nothing.

  • Post a dish in under a minute. A photo, a name, a price. You see exactly how buyers will see it as you type.
  • Set your own pickup times. Only the windows you actually want to be available.
  • Choose your pickup point. Drop a pin wherever you're happy for people to come — the corner, the shop downstairs, your building.
  • Keep the whole price. Food(ie) doesn't process payments and doesn't take a cut of what you sell.
Start selling
A cook's profile in Food(ie), showing their dishes, follower count and seller badge.

Built around trust

You're buying food from a person, so you should be able to see who they are first.

  • Real profiles. Every dish is attached to a cook you can look at, follow, and message before you order.
  • Real locations only. A cook appears on the map when they've pinned their own pickup point — never before.
  • Report and block. On every post, profile and conversation.

Find out who's cooking near you

Free to browse, free to sell, no account needed to look around.

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