Live on the App Store USC + University Park, LA

Eat dinner with your neighbors.

Buy a meal from a licensed home cook on your block and walk over to pick it up, hot. Or claim a seat at their table.

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Live on the App Store since May 2026 1st place, USC Marshall New Venture Pitch In talks with 11+ permitted home cooks
How it works
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See what's cooking nearby tonight.
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Reserve your portion in two taps.
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Walk over and pick it up, hot.
Follow one meal from the cook's kitchen to your table
A drop, in motion

A few seconds of steam and hands, straight from the kitchen.

A photo sells the dish. A short clip sells the sizzle, the plating, the moment it comes off the heat. Muted, six seconds, shot on a phone in a real home kitchen. No studio, no polish, just the cooking.

Plays muted, by design Six to eight seconds Shot by the cook
The same meal, the honest price
On a delivery app
$22
The same dish after a 30–40% markup, service fees, and tip.
On Silo, picked up
$13
The real price. No delivery fees, ever. Three blocks away.

Illustrative of a typical home-cooked meal. No delivery fees, ever, and 90–95% of what you pay goes to the cook who made it.

From the neighborhood

We would rather show you nothing than make it up.

Silo is young. Real notes from real neighbors will live here in their own words as the first kitchens open. Until then, here is the one voice we can fully stand behind: ours.

The best meal in my week was almost always a neighbor's, not a restaurant's. Silo just makes that easy: reserve it, pick it up hot, and nearly all of what you pay goes to the person who actually cooked it.
Shirley Park, Co-founder of Silo Shirley Park Co-founder · not a paid review, just why we built it
First neighbor notes coming

When you pick up your first meal you can leave a note for your cook. The real ones, from verified neighbors, appear right here.

Where Silo is cooking

Block by block, starting around USC.

Silo grows one neighbor at a time, not one city at a time. These are the blocks where cooks are coming online first. Don't see yours? Tell us your cross streets and we'll bring cooks to you.

Bring it to my block
Cooking now or coming next
University Park Exposition Park Jefferson Park Adams-Normandie Vermont Square West Adams Historic South-Central Your block?

A filled dot means a cook is live there now. The rest are next on the map as neighbors sign up.

Two ways to break bread

Meals to take home. Tables to sit at.

Most apps were built to keep you on your couch. Silo is built to get you off it. Reserve a meal for pickup, or claim a seat at a real table.

Cook's table

A sit-down dinner at the cook's home.

Ten to fifteen seats around one table. The cook posts the date, the dish, and the ticket price. You RSVP, walk over, and meet the people on your block over real food.

Live in the app today
Silo dinners

Curated tables we host ourselves.

A cook sharing a piece of their culture, in a room full of founders, engineers, designers, and investors who'd never otherwise sit at the same table. Hosted by Silo, capped on purpose, and worth showing up for.

First dinners coming soon. Write to us if you cook or want a seat

Silo dinners are tickets, not portions. The same payment, RSVP, and check-in flow as a meal drop, just sit-down instead of takeaway.

Get on the dinner list
Looking for our first cooks

The first kitchen on Silo could be yours.

A real founder reads every message and replies within a day.

Reach out MEHKO permit guide
A MEHKO permit (or willingness to get one) under California AB 626.
A kitchen near USC or University Park.
Food you'd be proud to feed your block. Meal drops, cook-hosted dinners, or both.
For cooks

Cook what you love.
Keep what you earn.

5–10% on pickups, free for your first few drops. No signup, no monthly. Delivery apps take 30–40%.
Host a group dinner and keep 80% of every ticket.
Stripe payouts to your bank in two business days.
We help you get your MEHKO permit, free.
cooks@silo.market How to get your MEHKO permit

Tell us what you cook. We reply within a day, no application form.

Made by
Shirley Park, Co-founder and CEO of Silo
Shirley Park
Co-founder & CEO · Story & strategy
Caleb Newton, Co-founder and CTO of Silo
Caleb Newton
Co-founder & CTO · Built the product
Good questions
Is the food safe?
Every Silo cook holds a California MEHKO permit under AB 626 and passes county health inspections. Allergens are disclosed on every listing, and you can see a cook's permit status before you order.
What is MEHKO?
MEHKO stands for Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operation. It is a California permit, created by AB 626, that lets home cooks legally sell food made in their own kitchen after a county inspection.
Is there delivery?
No, and that is the point. Silo is pickup-first. You reserve ahead and walk over, so there are no delivery fees, no driver markup, and your money goes to the cook instead of a logistics company.
Where is Silo available?
We are launching around USC and University Park in Los Angeles and expanding block by block as cooks come online. Outside the radius? Send us your cross streets and we will try to bring cooks to you.
How do refunds work?
Cancel four or more hours before pickup for a full refund. Between two and four hours it is 50 percent, and under two hours you receive store credit.
How do cooks get paid?
Cooks keep 90 to 95 percent of every order. Payouts arrive in your bank through Stripe within about two business days. No signup fee, no monthly fee.

It's live. Come to the table.

Download Silo and see what your neighbors are cooking. Outside USC? Send your cross streets and we'll bring cooks to your block.

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