Brooklyn Kitchen makes chef-prepared, medically tailored meals for home delivery, continuing a Cavitolo family food tradition that began with a Brooklyn restaurant in 1895. Now a fourth-generation, family-owned business, it still prepares meals at its original Brooklyn location and serves older adults, students, and shelter residents across multiple states. Its menus pair dietitian-approved nutrition with culturally diverse cooking, including familiar Latin, Middle Eastern, and other community-rooted flavors.
Golden MealsGolden Meals prepares medically tailored meals for community-based organizations across New York State, pairing scratch cooking with menus overseen by a New York State Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist. Its meals follow Food Is Medicine Coalition guidelines and are designed for clients managing diabetes, heart, or renal conditions, with culturally sensitive offerings that include ISA-certified halal and kosher options. Golden Meals handles preparation, packaging, and delivery so partner organizations can provide these meals without building a commercial kitchen or hiring food-service staff.WEST HAVERSTRAW, NY
Soup TherapyFounded by licensed Home Health Aide Juliette Ozkalfayan after she began making nourishing soup for clients, Soup Therapy is a Manhattan caregiver-support food company that prepares handcrafted, personalized soups fresh in customers’ homes. Each session brings the ingredients and equipment to the kitchen, leaving families with labeled, freezer-ready meals tailored to dietary needs and preferences. The company has graduated from Hot Bread Kitchen’s Seed Program and joined its Start Program as it develops frozen delivery and wholesale offerings.
Bimmy LLCBimmy LLC is led by Brooklyn-born third-generation chef Elliot Fread, whose family culinary history and early work with an Indigenous community shaped the company’s belief that feeding people is a responsibility. For nearly 30 years, its Long Island City kitchen has prepared made-to-order fresh food for business customers, with custom menus built around dietary needs and budget.LONG ISLAND CITY, NY
CookUnityCookUnity is a chef-to-consumer meal marketplace that connects award-winning chefs with eaters through fresh, fully cooked meals prepared in local kitchens and delivered weekly. Founded in 2018 with six chefs in a small Brooklyn kitchen, it now operates eight kitchens and brings together more than 150 chefs, giving culinary entrepreneurs a way to reach customers well beyond their own neighborhoods. Meals arrive chilled rather than frozen and are ready to heat and plate in minutes.BROOKLYN, NY