Home kitchens in Minnesota
574 home kitchens listed in Minnesota and counting. Browse the directory, check the rules, claim your kitchen, or list your own.
Find a home kitchen in Minnesota
574 listings — by track: 272 cottage producers · 302 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 Minnesota?
Claim your listing with proof of your Minnesota 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: claim with proof of your Minnesota Cottage food law registration or permit — whichever your program issues — and your listing carries the Cottage Food badge with preorder / pickup requests, never reservations.
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 Minnesota
⚖️ Minnesota home-kitchen laws — snapshot
State-run Cottage food law
Sales cap: $78,000 in gross receipts per calendar year (current; per Minn. Stat. § 28A.152, subd. 3 and the MDA). A lower Tier 1 threshold of $7,665 separates the no-fee…
Allowed foods: Only exempt foods under Minn. Stat. § 28A.152: (1) non-potentially hazardous foods such as baked goods and certain jams and jellies; (2) home-processed and…
Start your own
👩🍳 Start a home kitchen in Minnesota
One statewide agency sets the rules in Minnesota — follow the general roadmap, then check your state guide for the specifics.
Events & news in Minnesota
Recent changes: 2025 — The 2025 Agriculture omnibus budget bill (HF 2446, enacted as 2025 Session Law chapter 34, article 5; signed by the governor May 23, 2025) amends Minn. Stat. § 28A.152 with an EFFECTIVE DATE OF AUGUST 1, 2027: (a) collapses the two tiers into ONE registration tier — every registrant pays a $30 annual fee and must complete an approved safe food handling training (≤8 hours) every three…
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