Home kitchens in Maryland
325 home kitchens listed in Maryland and counting. Browse the directory, check the rules, claim your kitchen, or list your own.
Find a home kitchen in Maryland
325 listings — by track: 49 cottage producers · 276 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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🌮 Know a stand, cart, or home kitchen in Maryland that isn't listed here? Spot a vendor → Photograph it, add what you know, and it lists as a community spot the vendor can claim free.
🍳 Run a home kitchen in Maryland?
Claim your listing with proof of your Maryland 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: Maryland 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 Maryland
⚖️ Maryland home-kitchen laws — snapshot
State-run Cottage food law
Sales cap: Current cap: $50,000 in annual revenue from cottage food sales (Health-General §21-301(b-1)). Scheduled increase: HB 535 (Ch. 320, 2026), signed by Governor…
Allowed foods: Allowed: nonpotentially hazardous foods only — baked breads, cookies, pastries without perishable toppings/fillings (pies, turnovers, fruit tarts from fruits…
Start your own
👩🍳 Start a home kitchen in Maryland
One statewide agency sets the rules in Maryland — follow the general roadmap, then check your state guide for the specifics.
Events & news in Maryland
Recent changes: 2026: HB 535 (Ch. 320), signed April 28, 2026, raises the cottage food annual revenue cap from $50,000 to $100,000, effective October 1, 2026. 2026: SB 838 ('home bakeries' bill allowing refrigerated baked goods like cheesecakes and custard pies from home kitchens) received a Senate Finance hearing on February 25, 2026 but never advanced — died in committee; MDH and county health officers opposed…
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