Homemade regional dishes freshly prepared by local cooks in your community.
Quality homemade meals prepared by your local shefs, using fresh ingredients and traditional recipes. 100's of authentic dishes available each week.
Fully prepared meals delivered ready to stock the fridge, so you can skip the shopping, prepping, and cooking each week. Ready to heat & eat in minutes!
Adjust your plan to fit your needs & schedule + skip or cancel anytime. You can also change your delivery day, swap/add dishes, & more.
This daal is made of stewed yellow lentils, garlic, and an asafoetida. It would go well with rice or roti.
Chicken curry is a homemade chicken stew blended with homemade Indian spices. Best served with rice or roti.
Chana Masala is an authentic North Indian dish made with savory chickpeas with homemade garam masala. Best served with rice or roti.
Homemade cottage cheese steeped in a tomato cream sauce topped with fenugreek leaves.
Chicken Curry is a very classic dish. This organic chicken is cooked in a rich onion-tomato gravy with some Indian spices. This dish is a homemade mouthwatering curry with a juicy consistency and a very aromatic dish.
Miriyala Pongal(Ven Pongal) is a popular south Indian breakfast/dinner made with rice and moong dal, which is tempered with ghee, curry leaves, black pepper and cumin seeds.
Cracked Wheat also known as Dalia. A bowl of upma is rich in fiber, vitamins, and healthy fats, especially when packed with healthy veggies. This serves with mango pickle or splitdal spicy powder.
Flavorful vegetarian dish, Soya granules, green peas cooked in tomato, onion, ginger and garlic. Has earthy flavours from cinnamon and cloves, and aromatics from cardamon with kasthoori methi.
Black Chana Curry is a very nutritious, delicious, flavorful curry made with cooked chana with some spices. It’s best served with hot rice, roti, etc.
Cabbage recipe curry prepared with shredded cabbage leaves, and green peas. It tastes amazing as a side dish to roti and paratha.
Onion Pakoda is an appetizer, which is so delicious by itself but also pairs well with green chutney, tamarind chutney, khadi, tomato ketchup, rasam, or sambar.
This is an Indo-Chinese dish made with shallow fried coated fish, assorted bell peppers, chili sauce and soy sauce. This dish has a unique sweet, spicy and slightly sour taste.
We provide the insulated bags, ice packs, & labels for your food to be delivered, as well as delivery logistics, marketing, and customer service. Chefs are responsible for food packaging (unless otherwise noted during onboarding), kitchen space/equipment, and ingredients. No platform fees!
No! We handle all delivery & logistics. Depending on your market you will either drop off your food at a drop-off point located near you or we will pick up the food in time for delivery to the customer.
Earnings are based on the number of dishes/orders sold, which can vary by a chef’s volume & availability. There are no platform fees or commission taken from your earnings. Dishes are selected to fit into a standardized pricing structure with set chef payouts per serving.
We are looking for delicious, high quality meals that families & individuals would look forward to enjoying for their weekday lunches & dishes. Dishes will need to travel & reheat well since they’ll be cooled for delivery & stocked in the fridge.
We like to think of ourselves as a subscription service with unparalleled flexibility. You can cancel, skip or reschedule at any time as long as you do so before the cutoff period.
Each meal plan is individually curated based on your needs. Each week we'll send you meal recommendations based on your preferences and past orders. You can always modify those recommendations before the cut-off time.
Our culinary team seeks out chefs for our Weekly Shef Service with strong culinary backgrounds and chefs with a passion for ingredient quality & seasonality. Our team works with the shefs to curate the perfect menu, and each dish is taste-tested to ensure quality!
Each dish you order on Shef will come with a label that includes a "best by" date (typically 2-3 days from the date of arrival). If you'd like your meals to last longer, we suggest freezing them to enjoy when you're ready! Just heat, eat…and repeat!
Each meal plan is individually curated based on your needs. Each week we'll send you meal recommendations based on your preferences and past orders. You can always modify those recommendations before the cut-off time.
Shefs pride themselves in preparing their meals with fresh, local ingredients! All meals will arrive cold in an insulated bag with frozen water bottles and each dish will have a label that includes a "best by" date (typically 2-3 days from the date of arrival). Feel free to heat them up for dinner or put them in the refrigerator to enjoy later—completely up to you! If you'd like your meals to last longer, we suggest freezing them to enjoy when you're ready! Just heat, eat…and repeat!
Shefs are currently located across the Bay Area, Los Angeles, DC, New York, Seattle, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and Austin. To see if we serve your specific area, please enter your zip code at www.shef.com. Please Note: If you have encountered an error at checkout indicating that your address is not within our service range, that usually means that your address falls outside the delivery area that our third-party delivery partner can service. While we may service your zip code, there are range limits as to how far our delivery partners can deliver. Please know that we are continually expanding our delivery areas and that we look forward to serving you in the future!
Delivery fees may vary depending on your area; however, all orders $25 and above get free delivery.
The driver will call or text you in case you’re not at home when they arrive. If they can’t reach you, and they determine that the address is in a safe location, they will leave it outside your door. Please leave any special instructions in the “Delivery Instructions” box at checkout.
Meals typically stay cold in insulated bags for up to a couple of hours, but that is not guaranteed, so please plan accordingly! If the ice packs or water bottles in your delivery bag have thawed and the food is no longer cold, you should not eat it.
On the morning of your delivery day, you'll receive an email explaining the details of your delivery. Your order will arrive in the delivery window that was selected at checkout. When your order is on the way or about to be delivered to you, you'll receive a text (to the number you provided at checkout). Depending on where you're located, the text may include a tracking link and an ETA.
Orders can be canceled as long as you cancel before the cut-off date for your delivery (e.g., for a Sunday delivery, you would need to cancel by 11:59 p.m. on Friday). To cancel your order, head to your orders page > click "Upcoming" > select the order you wish to cancel > scroll to the bottom and click to cancel.
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