Meet our founder, Claire

Claire has long had an interest in food and particularly in Bristol’s food scene. So much so that it led her to become Chair for Bristol Food Connections, a festival shining a light on the city’s restaurants, projects and communities.

She was always a huge believer and supporter of real food made in kitchens, rather than products made in factories. But a turning point was when she bought homemade lemon curd made to raise funds for the Square Food Foundation in Bristol. 

“Every time I picked the jar up I felt differently about it than if I’d bought it from the supermarket. I knew then that I wanted to recreate that special feeling you get when someone cooks for you.”

Meet our founder, Claire

Claire has long had an interest in food and particularly in Bristol’s food scene. So much so that it led her to become Chair for Bristol Food Connections, a festival shining a light on the city’s restaurants, projects and communities.

She was always a huge believer and supporter of real food made in kitchens, rather than products made in factories. But a turning point was when she bought homemade lemon curd made to raise funds for the Square Food Foundation in Bristol. 

“Every time I picked the jar up I felt differently about it than if I’d bought it from the supermarket. I knew then that I wanted to recreate that special feeling you get when someone cooks for you.”

A new concept is born

And so Claire officially launched All About The Cooks in late-2021, born from the idea that living amongst us are talented home-cooks who would love to share their delicious food with people near them, and make money in a way that fits in around their lives while doing so.

It didn’t take long for Bristol to embrace the new concept and after a few months, 60 home-cooks had joined the platform and they’d sold over 800 meals in their neighbourhoods.

One of the highlights of these early days was to see one of the first home-cook on the platform – Trung Trinh – growing to open his very own Vietnamese restaurant, The Saigon Kitchen.

A new concept is born

And so Claire officially launched All About The Cooks in late-2021, born from the idea that living amongst us are talented home-cooks who would love to share their delicious food with people near them, and make money in a way that fits in around their lives while doing so.

It didn’t take long for Bristol to embrace the new concept and after a few months, 60 home-cooks had joined the platform and they’d sold over 800 meals in their neighbourhoods.

One of the highlights of these early days was to see one of the first home-cook on the platform – Trung Trinh – growing to open his very own Vietnamese restaurant, The Saigon Kitchen.

We are just getting started

As the business grew so did the team to make sure both our cooks and our customers would get the support they needed.

In Spring 2022, we raised over £350k through crowdfunding led by Cookpad, the recipe platform with 100 million users in 70 countries. Following this, All About The Cooks launched in its second location – Bath – and we now have ambitious plans to bring delicious home-cooked food to more people in the region.

Thank you for joining us on our mission to revolutionise the way we eat at home and welcome to the go to place to buy and sell home-cooked food.

The Team at All About The Cooks

We are just getting started

The Team at All About The Cooks

As the business grew so did the team to make sure both our cooks and our customers would get the support they needed.

In Spring 2022, we raised over £350k through crowdfunding led by Cookpad, the recipe platform with 100 million users in 70 countries. Following this, All About The Cooks launched in its second location – Bath – and we now have ambitious plans to bring delicious home-cooked food to more people in the region.

Thank you for joining us on our mission to revolutionise the way we eat at home and welcome to the go to place to buy and sell home-cooked food.

What we do

With All About The Cooks, it’s clear you get delicious homemade food, whilst supporting your talented neighbours and escaping food boredom simultaneously. 

We’ve been described as “concept that is a perfect mix of 21st century technology and all old-fashioned values, celebrating local talents like we used to when we lived in small villages.”

We love this, because it recognises our mission is more conscious than one click, instant delivery platforms like Deliveroo. We operate on a hyper-local basis where one day everyone will know who cooks what in their neighbourhood and when they can collect it from them.

Our mission

With All About The Cooks, it’s clear you get delicious homemade food, whilst supporting your talented neighbours and escaping food boredom simultaneously. 

We’ve been described as “concept that is a perfect mix of 21st century technology and all old-fashioned values, celebrating local talents like we used to when we lived in small villages.”

We love this, because it recognises our mission is more conscious than one click, instant delivery platforms like Deliveroo. We operate on a hyper-local basis where one day everyone will know who cooks what in their neighbourhood.

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