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Discover cooks near you
Browse verified home chefs by cuisine, postcode, or what's cooking tonight. Menus update daily.
UK-Made · Home-Cooked · Delivered
Real food, from real kitchens.
Authentico is the UK's home-cooking marketplace. Order authentic meals from verified home chefs in your neighbourhood — biryani from a Bradford auntie, jerk chicken from a Brixton kitchen, pierogi from a Peckham nan.
How it works
Three taps between
you and dinner.
No dark kitchens. No delivery-app middlemen stacking their margins on your meal. Just home cooks in your postcode, making the food they grew up eating — and bringing it to your door.
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Order ahead, eat fresh
Reserve lunch by 11am, dinner by 4pm. Chefs cook to order — nothing sits under a heat lamp.
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Collect or get it delivered
Pick up from the kitchen, or choose local delivery. Track it live from hob to doorstep.
On the menu this week
The kitchens,
not the chains.
Every chef on Authentico is food-hygiene certified, home-kitchen registered with their local council, and rated by the people who actually ate the food.
South Indian · Southall
Priya's Pondicherry Kitchen
Dosas · Sambar · Filter coffeefrom £7.50
Caribbean · Brixton
Marcia & Sons
Jerk · Curry goat£11
Thai · Hackney
Nok's Table
Green curry · Pad krapow£10.75
North Indian · Wembley
Pramila's Kitchen
Biryani · Dal makhani£9.50
West African · Peckham
Ade's Lagos Suppers
Jollof · Egusi · Suya£10
Persian · Edgware
Shireen's Tehran Table
Ghormeh sabzi · Tahchin · Baklavafrom £12
For home chefs
Turn the kitchen
you already love
into a business.
List your menu in 15 minutes. We handle payments, orders, and customer discovery. You keep cooking — and keep up to 90% of every sale.
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Keep what you earn
Flat 10% commission. No joining fee, no hidden margin games.
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Cook on your schedule
Weekends only? Wednesdays at lunch? Set your own hours and capacity.
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We bring the customers
Local SEO, social ads, and in-app discovery — all on us.
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Grow with real data
See what sells, what's under-priced, and where to open next.
500+
Verified home chefs across the UK
32
Cuisines on the platform, from Ghanaian to Gujarati
90%
Goes straight to the chef who cooked it
4.9★
Average rating after 12,000+ orders
Real reviews
What people are
saying.
From chefs building their first business to diners who swapped the takeaway habit — here's what's happening on Authentico right now.
I cooked for my street on WhatsApp for years. In three months on Authentico I've tripled my orders and opened a waiting list.
Pramila B.Home chef · Wembley
Properly homemade. You can taste the difference between this and a dark-kitchen delivery — it's not even close.
Jamie R.Diner · London SW9
Finally, an app that treats home cooks like small businesses, not gig workers. The analytics alone changed how I price.
Ade O.Home chef · Peckham
Is the food safe? Are chefs actually checked?
Yes. Every Authentico chef is registered with their local council as a home food business, holds a Level 2 Food Hygiene & Safety certificate, and passes our kitchen verification check before their first order. Ratings are real — only paying customers can leave them.
Where does Authentico deliver?
We're live across Greater London, Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds, with Bristol and Edinburgh launching next. Inside the app, you'll only see chefs cooking in your delivery radius (usually 3–5 miles).
How does the 10% commission work?
Chefs pay a flat 10% on each order — nothing else. No listing fee, no monthly subscription, no surprise "service charge" skimmed off the top. If you sell £1,000 of food in a week, £900 is yours.
Can I pre-order or is it on-demand?
Both. Many chefs cook in batches — you'll see their menus open the day before, and slots fill up. Some are instant. Either way, you'll get a clear "ready by" time before you pay.
What's stopping this from becoming another Deliveroo?
Our chefs own their kitchens, their recipes, and their customer relationships. We don't run dark kitchens, we don't own the food, and we don't dictate menus. Authentico is the rails — the cooking stays personal.