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The taste no restaurant can make, from a Mom in your own neighborhood.

Permitted home kitchens near you cook what they grew up with — Ghormeh Sabzi, Tamales, Bibimbap, Biryani, Pho — and bring it to your door. Order for today, or pre-order for tomorrow.

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Three steps between you and dinner

No menus from forty restaurants. A few Moms near you, cooking today.

Tell us where you are

The first thing the app asks. In California you see the Moms around you right away; anywhere else, leave your email and we open your area as soon as enough neighbors sign up.

Pick today's dishes

Each kitchen posts a small daily menu with portions and prices — order before it sells out, or pre-order for tomorrow.

Track it to your door

Follow the order from “cooking” to “delivered”, then leave a review for the Banoo.

Restaurants cook for everyone. A Banoo cooks the way her family likes it.

Small batches, real kitchens, and the law on your side.

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Real home cooking

Every dish is made in a real home kitchen, in small batches, with real photos — no stock images.

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From your own neighborhood

See approximate kitchen locations on a map and order within a few miles — exact addresses stay private.

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Permitted and checked by a person

Every cook holds a county MEHKO home-kitchen permit and a Food Protection Manager certificate. We check each document and show the permit number on her page. By law a home kitchen serves at most 30 meals a day and 90 a week.

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Delivered by her own people

Brought by the cook herself, a member of her household, or her own employee with a California Food Handler card — never a third-party delivery company, exactly as California's home-kitchen law requires. Or pick it up yourself.

Every nation's home cooking

Our food archive covers 40+ nations and their regions — nearly 2,000 dishes — so a Mom's menu shows the food she truly knows, and you can browse by nation.

🇮🇷Iran🇲🇽Mexico🇰🇷Korea🇮🇳India🇻🇳Vietnam🇨🇳China🇵🇭Philippines🇦🇫Afghanistan🇸🇻El Salvador🇬🇹Guatemala🇦🇲Armenia🇱🇧Lebanon🇹🇷Türkiye🇯🇵Japan🇹🇭Thailand🇪🇹Ethiopia🇳🇬Nigeria🇧🇷Brazil🇵🇪Peru🇮🇹Italy🇺🇦Ukraine🇵🇰Pakistan🇪🇬Egypt🇯🇲Jamaica+ 18 more

Is Banoo open where you live?

All of California today. Everywhere else, pre-register: a city opens when about 1,000 neighbors have signed up, a state or country at 10,000, and you get an email the day we open.

Are you a Mom (or a Baba) who cooks?

Turn your kitchen into a small business. Post the dishes you cook best from your own region, set today's portions, and get paid every week.

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    Permit first, but start todayWe launch in California with the MEHKO permit. No permit yet? Open your kitchen as “Coming soon” for up to 60 days while you set up your menu and get it. Orders start once we verify your documents.
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    Your nation's foodOur archive covers 40+ nations and their regions — nearly 2,000 dishes — so your menu shows the food you truly know.
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    Your own deliverersAdd a family member, someone who lives with you, or hire a verified neighbor as your employee — each with a Food Handler card. They deliver only for you.
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    Weekly payoutsBanoo keeps a small fee from each order — always shown on the rules page — and tips go 100% to you. Your share lands in your bank account every Monday through Stripe.
Open my kitchen

It started with one pot of ghormeh sabzi

Our family started selling my mother's ghormeh sabzi — lamb shank, slow herbs, the way she learned it from her mother — to neighbors in Long Beach. People kept coming back, and they kept asking the same question: “Do you know a Mom who makes dolmeh? Tamales? Kimchi jjigae?”

California answered first: its home-kitchen law lets a permitted Banoo sell a small number of meals a day from her own stove. Banoo is the missing piece — a place where every nation's home cook can open her kitchen, and where anyone who misses the taste of home can find her a few streets away.

We are a small team of immigrants in Los Angeles. We built it for our own mothers first.

“Restaurants cook for everyone. A Banoo cooks the way her own family likes it.”— the idea behind Banoo
30 / 90meals a day / a week — the legal limit for a home kitchen. Small batches, on purpose.
100%of permits, certificates and Food Handler cards reviewed by a person before a kitchen opens.
10M+people in California were born in another country — and miss a taste from home.

Questions mothers ask us

Short answers. The full rules, fees and complaint channels are always in the app.

What is a MEHKO permit?

A Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operation permit, issued by your county or city health department under California's AB 626. It lets you cook and sell a limited number of meals a day from your own home kitchen, with an annual inspection. Most of Los Angeles County issues it through LA County Environmental Health; Long Beach, Pasadena and Vernon have their own health departments.

How do I become a cook?

Install the app, choose “Cook”, tell us your nation and your kitchen. You can open today as “Coming soon” and have 60 days to upload your MEHKO permit and Food Protection Manager certificate. We review the documents and email you; orders start the day they are approved.

Who delivers the food?

By law, only the cook, a member of her family or household, or her own employee with a California Food Handler card. Banoo never uses a delivery company. You can also pick up yourself.

What does it cost?

Buyers pay the cook's price plus a flat delivery fee (shown before you pay) and any tip, which goes 100% to the cook. Banoo keeps a small percentage of the food subtotal from each order; the exact numbers are published on the rules page in the app and any increase is announced a month ahead.

Which cities are open?

All of California today. Elsewhere, pre-register above: a city opens at about 1,000 neighbors, a state or country at 10,000, and everyone on the list gets an email the day it opens.

What if something goes wrong with an order?

Report it from the order page in the app or email us; refunds go back to your card. You can also complain directly to the California Department of Public Health or to the county health department that issued the kitchen's permit — both are linked in the app.

Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 25, 2026 · 4LINB LLC, Signal Hill, California

What we collect

Your email (to sign you in with a one-time code), your name and phone, delivery addresses you add, your orders, reviews, and your approximate location when you search for kitchens. Cooks also provide a kitchen address, permit details, dish photos and payout information (held by Stripe, not by us).

How we use it

To show nearby kitchens, place and deliver orders, pay cooks, send order emails, prevent fraud and comply with the law. We never sell your personal information.

Who sees what

Buyers see a cook's kitchen name, photos and an approximate map location — never the street address. Cooks see your name, order and delivery instructions — never your address; the authorized courier (or the cook, when she delivers herself) receives it for that delivery only. Our service providers: Stripe (payments), Resend (email) and Cloudflare (hosting).

Your choices

You can edit or delete addresses and sign out of all devices in the app. To delete your account and data, email privacy@banoocook.com; we complete deletion within 30 days except records we must keep for tax or legal reasons.

Children

Banoo is for adults 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect information from children.

Terms of Service

Last updated: October 25, 2026 · 4LINB LLC

The marketplace

Banoo is a marketplace operated by 4LINB LLC. Meals are prepared and sold by independent, permitted home cooks; 4LINB LLC collects payment on their behalf and keeps a platform fee that is published in the app. Delivery is performed only by the cook, a member of the cook's family or household, or the cook's own employee — never by 4LINB LLC or a third-party delivery service.

Orders and payment

Prices, delivery fee and taxes are shown before you pay. Your card is charged when the cook accepts the order; if a cook declines or cannot fulfil it, you are refunded in full. Orders can be cancelled by the buyer until the cook starts cooking.

Cooks

Cooks must hold a valid home-kitchen permit and a Food Protection Manager certificate in a state where Banoo operates, upload them for verification and keep them current, stay within the legal daily and weekly meal limits, list only dishes they prepare themselves, use real photos and follow local food-safety rules. Expired documents pause the kitchen automatically until renewed.

Reviews and conduct

Reviews must be honest and about a completed order. Harassment, discrimination or attempts to contact a cook or buyer outside the app for the same transaction are not allowed.

Liability

Food is prepared by independent cooks who are responsible for its quality and safety. To the extent permitted by law, 4LINB LLC's liability for any order is limited to the amount you paid for it. Governed by the laws of California.