CultureTaster turns your kitchen into a supper club, a cooking class, or a culture night — guests who come for your cooking and your story. We handle the bookings, payments, insurance and paperwork, and coach you through every step. You just open the door.
Your cuisine, your story, and how you'd love to host — we'll take it from there.
We sort your registration and insurance, help you price your menu, and photograph your food.
Host in your own home or garden, do what you love, and get paid directly after every experience.
Most people who'd be wonderful at this have never done anything like it — and the same handful of worries hold them back. Here they are, answered straight.
Cooking for paying guests at home is completely legal in the UK. We make sure you're registered and properly insured, and walk you through the food-safety basics — so you're legitimate from your very first guest. No grey areas, no guesswork.
This isn't restaurant cooking — it's the food you already make for the people you love, and that's exactly what guests come for: honest, personal, from somewhere real. If you're not sure where to start, we help you shape a menu and make every plate look the part.
You choose your dates, your menu, and how many people sit at your table — or skip the table entirely and start with Cook & collect: your kitchen, no guests, just the cooking. Either way, guests book and pay through CultureTaster, so there's no cash and no awkwardness, and a real person is always a message away.
Finding guests isn't on you — that's our job. We bring the diners, put founding hosts in front of them first, and launch where there's demand, so you're never cooking to an empty room. You focus on the food; we fill the table.
Some of the UK's best cooks aren't in restaurants — they're at home, making the food of somewhere else. CultureTaster gives them a seat, a welcome, and a way to be paid for what they do best.
— Why we're building CultureTaster
30 seconds. Tell us what you cook — we'll get you registered, ready, and launch in your area first.
Launching in the UK first. We'll only email you about the launch — unsubscribe anytime.
You're founding host #1. Watch your inbox — we'll be in touch before launch with your founding perks.