Home kitchens in Louisiana
263 home kitchens listed in Louisiana and counting. Browse the directory, check the rules, claim your kitchen, or list your own.
Find a home kitchen in Louisiana
263 listings — by track: 48 cottage producers · 215 street vendors. Search, filter, or use your location to sort by distance.
Three tracks, three different kinds of food business. 🍳 Home Kitchen — Meals: permitted home kitchens cooking meals. 🥧 Cottage Food — Shelf-Stable: home producers of shelf-stable foods (baked goods, jams, candy) — preorder / pickup, not restaurant-style reservations. 🌮 Street Food — Sidewalk & Mobile: vendors selling in public places — they do NOT cook from home kitchens; they hold different permits and are walk-up only, with no bookings. Listings badged 🌾 Food Freedom sit under a state law broader than cottage food; in the track filter they count under Meals when they sell hot/prepared food and under Cottage when they sell shelf-stable goods.
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🍳 Run a home kitchen in Louisiana?
Claim your listing with proof of your Louisiana Cottage food law permit, license, or registration — whichever your program issues — and unlock the Owner Studio: your logo and colors, photos, menu, reviews, QR code, and booking requests.
Cottage producers: Louisiana requires no permit for Cottage food law production, so there is no permit to show — claim with rule-compliance proof (your labels and product list showing you follow the cottage rules). You will never be labeled “permitted” for a program that issues no permit.
Street & mobile vendors: you are a separate track — you do not cook from a home kitchen. Claim with your mobile/sidewalk vending permit (in the permit type your state or county issues) and your profile shows your typical area and where you are often found — walk-up only, no bookings.
The rules in Louisiana
⚖️ Louisiana home-kitchen laws — snapshot
State-run Cottage food law
Sales cap: $100,000 gross annual sales per year to keep the cottage-food exemption, raised from $30,000 by Act 801 of 2026 (HB 403), effective August 1, 2026. (Note: the…
Allowed foods: Allowed: baked goods (breads, cakes, cookies, pies), candies, cane syrup, dried mixes, honey and honeycomb products, jams/jellies/preserves, pickles and…
Start your own
👩🍳 Start a home kitchen in Louisiana
One statewide agency sets the rules in Louisiana — follow the general roadmap, then check your state guide for the specifics.
Events & news in Louisiana
Recent changes: 2022: HB 828 (Act 357) raised the sales cap from $20,000 to $30,000, effective 8/1/2022. 2025: HB 150 (Coates), a food-freedom-style bill creating 'farm food products' (proposed R.S. 40:4.13) with a $150,000 cap, passed the House 70-21 on 6/8/2025 but died in the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee — never became law. 2026: HB 403 (Coates), Act 801, raised the cap from $30,000 to $100,000,…
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