Mira S.
“Birthdays, weddings, last-minute Tuesdays. Tell me the occasion — I'll bake the dream.”
4.9 rating312 bakes2y here
A marketplace for home cooks
Tell us what
you're craving.
Someone nearby
is already cooking it.
Chefnero connects you to home chefs in your neighbourhood. Search for the dish you want, pick a chef, send them your request. They send an invoice. You accept. They cook. It's that direct.
“I cooked her grandmother's stew. She cried. I cried. Now she orders every Sunday.”Adaeze · Hackney
Now cooking in
LondonMilton KeynesBedfordMore UK cities soon
How it works
Find the dish. Pick the cook. Eat well.
Most delivery apps make you pick from a fixed menu. Chefnero is built around the dish. Search for what you want, see who cooks it nearby, send your request to the chef you like. They invoice, you decide, they cook. Personal and transparent.
01 / Search
Find chefs cooking what you want.
Type the dish you're after. We show the home chefs nearby who cook it, with reviews, photos and a price to start from.
02 / Request
Pick a chef. Send the details.
Portion size, when you want it, any dietary needs. The chef replies with a firm invoice and a delivery window — usually within the hour.
03 / Decide
Accept, modify, or cancel.
Happy with the invoice? Accept and pay. Want to tweak the order? Send it back. Changed your mind? Cancel before you pay.
04 / Eat
They cook. It arrives.
Live updates from the kitchen. Hot to your door. Rate the meal so the next person knows what to expect.
The cooks
Real people. Real kitchens.
Every Chefnero chef is hygiene-verified and reviewed by the community. They cook food they grew up with, or food they fell in love with, or food they invented last Tuesday. We just bring the diners.
Marcus W.
“Jerk chicken, oxtail, rice and peas. My mum's recipes, scaled for your table.”
4.8 rating224 meals1y here
Daniel R.
“Whole food, slow cooked. Vegetables that taste like vegetables — plants doing the heavy lifting.”
5.0 rating431 meals3y here
Aanya P.
“Dosa, sambar, the works. As good as anything you'd eat in Chennai.”
4.9 rating268 meals2y here
Tunde O.
“Jollof, suya, egusi. The food I grew up on, cooked the way it should be.”
4.8 rating354 meals2y here
Why Chefnero
Three things delivery apps can't give you.
We're not trying to be faster than Deliveroo or cheaper than the kebab shop. We're trying to be something they fundamentally can't be: a way to commission a meal from a real cook.
Order what you actually want.
Vegan version of your auntie's lasagna? Egusi the way your dad makes it? Fine. Tell the chef and they'll quote — or tell you politely they can't.
Cook with a name and a face.
You're paying a person, not a ghost kitchen. You know their name, their neighbourhood, what their last 100 diners thought. They know you ordered last week.
Verified, insured, accountable.
Every chef is hygiene-checked and reviewed. Payments are held until your meal's on its way. Disputes go to a real human, not a help-centre URL.
For home cooks
Cook for your neighbourhood.
Get paid for it.
If you're cooking great food at home, Chefnero gives you a way to sell it — without a restaurant, without a menu, without rent. You set your prices, your hours, and what you'll cook. We bring the customers and handle the rest.
Start cooking on Chefnero →£1,200
Median monthly earnings for active chefs.
2 yrs
Median tenure. Our chefs stay.
18%
Platform fee. Everything else is yours.
340+
Home cooks already on the platform.
In the press
What people are saying.
We're still small. But the people who've found us tend to tell their friends. Here's what some of them have written.
“The first food app that actually felt like ordering from a friend who happens to cook well — except the friend is a stranger, and brilliant.”
The Observer Food Monthly · Spring 2026
“A quiet rebellion against the ghost-kitchen era. Chefnero brings the cook back into the loop.”
Eater London · February 2026
“I asked for my mother's biryani. A woman two streets away cooked it better than I do. I am, frankly, undone.”
It's Nice That · March 2026
“For the price of a mediocre takeaway, you get a meal somebody actually put themselves into. Worth it every time.”
Time Out · April 2026
Questions
The obvious ones, answered.
Can't find what you're looking for? Drop us a line at hello@chefnero.app — a person will reply.
Are these chefs actually licensed?
Every Chefnero chef is hygiene-verified, holds the relevant local food handling certifications, and is insured to cook from home. We do the verification before they can take a single order — and we re-check annually.
What if the food's not what I ordered?
Reach out to support within 24 hours and we'll review with the chef. Once a quote is accepted and paid, orders aren't refundable on a whim — but genuine issues (wrong dish, food safety, no-show) are always covered.
How much does it cost?
There's no subscription. You pay only what your chef quotes for the meal, plus a small service fee. Delivery is included in the quote unless you arrange pickup. No surge pricing, ever.
How long does it take to get a quote?
Most chefs reply within an hour during their cooking hours. You can request a meal for tonight, tomorrow, or next Sunday — they'll confirm what they can do and when.
I have a severe allergy. Is Chefnero safe for me?
Tell the chef directly in your request — not just the dietary flags, which signal preferences. Each chef chooses whether to accept allergy-critical orders based on their own kitchen. When they accept, they're committing to that requirement.
Where do you operate?
London, Milton Keynes and Bedford today, with more UK cities coming through the rest of 2026. Sign up to be notified when we land in yours.
So — what's
for dinner?
Free to download. Free to browse. You pay only when you accept a quote.