Home kitchens in Texas
686 home kitchens listed in Texas and counting. Browse the directory, check the rules, claim your kitchen, or list your own.
Find a home kitchen in Texas
686 listings — by track: 372 cottage producers · 314 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 Texas 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 Texas?
Claim your listing with proof of your Texas 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: Texas 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 Texas
⚖️ Texas home-kitchen laws — snapshot
State-run Cottage food law
Sales cap: $150,000 annual gross income from cottage food sales (up from $50,000 under SB 541), with DSHS required to adjust the cap annually for inflation using the…
Allowed foods: Allowed: almost any food produced in the home — including time/temperature-control-for-safety (TCS) foods like cream pies, cheesecakes, and refrigerated…
Start your own
👩🍳 Start a home kitchen in Texas
One statewide agency sets the rules in Texas — follow the general roadmap, then check your state guide for the specifics.
Events & news in Texas
Recent changes: SB 541 (89R, 2025; authored by Kolkhorst, House sponsor Hull) — signed by the governor May 30, 2025, effective September 1, 2025 — was the biggest change: sales cap raised $50,000 → $150,000 with annual CPI-U inflation adjustment; allowed foods flipped from a non-TCS-only list to 'any food except' the six prohibited categories (TCS foods now legal with registration + handling rules); nonprofit…
🔔 Launch & law alerts for Texas
Get told when kitchens launch in Texas or its home-food laws change. Read the current Texas law guide while you wait.
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