Verified🍛
Thandi's Kitchen
★ 4.9South African · Comfort
Free delivery30 min
Home Eats · launching in Cape Town
Home-cooked food from the kitchens around you.
Discover vetted home cooks in your neighbourhood, order in a few taps, and pay securely. Your cook brings it round — or you pop by to collect. Real food, made by real people, close to home.
- Verified kitchens
- Card & instant EFT
- Delivery or pickup
Bunny chow ✺Bobotie ✺Sourdough ✺Biryani ✺Koeksisters ✺Butter chicken ✺Vetkoek ✺Lasagne ✺Chakalaka ✺Malva pudding ✺Bunny chow ✺Bobotie ✺Sourdough ✺Biryani ✺Koeksisters ✺Butter chicken ✺Vetkoek ✺Lasagne ✺Chakalaka ✺Malva pudding ✺
Why Home Eats
Not a restaurant. Someone's kitchen.
We're a marketplace for the cooks in your area who are genuinely good — the aunty whose curry everyone asks for, the neighbour who bakes on weekends. Curated, vetted, and close.
Real home cooks
Every kitchen is run by one person cooking from home — not a dark kitchen or a chain. Food with a name behind it.
Verified kitchens
Cooks pass food-safety and compliance checks before they go live. Look for the green Verified Kitchen badge.
Delivery or pickup
Your cook delivers their own orders, so the fee is theirs and fair. Prefer to fetch it warm? Collection is a tap away.
Pay securely
Checkout by card or instant EFT, protected end-to-end. Save a card for one-tap reorders next time.
How it works
Dinner, three taps away.
01
Find kitchens near you
Open the app and we'll show the home cooks around your address — filter by cuisine, distance, rating and what's open now.
02
Order & pay
Build your order, choose delivery or collection, and pay securely. We confirm your payment before the kitchen starts cooking.
03
Track it home
Follow your order live from accepted to on-the-way. Your cook brings it round, or you collect it fresh from the kitchen.
In your neighbourhood
Meet a few of the kitchens.
A taste of who you'll find. Real kitchens, real ratings, all within a short hop of home.
Verified🔥
Braai & Co
★ 4.8 (212)Braai · Grills · Comfort
R30 delivery45 min
Verified🍲
Mama's Bunny Chow
★ 4.9 (488)Durban · Curry · Halaal
Free delivery35 min
Verified🥗
Green Bowl
★ 4.7 (96)Vegan · Healthy · Salads
Free delivery20 min
For home cooks
Turn your kitchen into an income.
If people already tell you to “sell this,” now you can. Home Eats gives you a storefront, a steady stream of nearby orders, and on-demand payouts to your bank — without leaving your kitchen.
- Keep 100% of food & deliveryWe never take a cut of your food price or your delivery fee — you keep both in full. The platform earns a small service fee from the customer instead.
- Cook on your termsSet your own hours, menu, prep times and daily capacity so you never sell more than one kitchen can make.
- Get paid to your bankEarnings land in a ledger you can see, and you withdraw straight to your verified bank account by EFT.
- Build a verified reputationPass our checks once, earn the Verified Kitchen badge, and let your ratings bring the regulars back.
A typical order
You keep R200
on a R200 order — we don't take a cent of your food price or your delivery fee.
Food subtotalR175.00
Your delivery feeR25.00
You receiveR200.00
The customer pays a 10% service fee on top — that's the platform's only cut, never yours.
Trust & safety
Curated, not crowded.
We grow one suburb at a time and onboard cooks deliberately — so every kitchen you see has cleared the bar.
Vetted before they're visible
Cooks submit their food-safety credentials for review. No kitchen goes live until it's cleared.
Payments handled safely
Card and instant-EFT payments are processed by a regulated payment partner. We never store your card details.
Right around the corner
You only see kitchens that can actually reach you, so food arrives fresh and fast — usually within a few kilometres.
Coming soon to Cape Town
Be first to eat — or to cook.
The apps are on the way. Drop your email and we'll let you know the moment Home Eats opens in your suburb.
No spam — just one note when we launch near you.