For restaurants, gastropubs, cafés & takeout
Your kitchen, on their kitchen shelf
A cookbook of cook-at-home versions of your best-loved dishes, sold over the counter or online. It keeps you in your customers' minds between visits, and reminds them how good it tastes when you make it.
It won't keep them at home. It brings them back.
Nobody cooking your curry on a Tuesday gets the tandoor, the table, the service or a night off from the washing up. What they do get is a reason to think about you - and a reminder of the real thing.
A restaurant cookbook works the way a good souvenir does. The home versions are simpler on purpose, so they're easy to cook and still a step away from what your kitchen does. Every time someone opens the book they're reminded where the recipe came from, and the next time they're deciding where to eat, you're the first name that comes to mind.
On their kitchen shelf, all year
A flyer gets binned and a post scrolls past. A cookbook sits in the kitchen, and every time they open it they think of you - on an ordinary weeknight, months after their last visit.
Home versions, not your secrets
Write the recipes for a home kitchen: fewer steps, ingredients from the supermarket, no special kit. You decide what goes in. The techniques that make your food yours can stay in your kitchen.
A taste that brings them back
Cooking your dish at home is a reminder of how good it is when you make it. Say so in the book - the grill, the stock that takes two days, the bread from the oven - and give them a reason to book.
A gift that brings you new faces
Sold at the bar or by the register, it is the present people buy for the friend who loves your place - and the friend who hasn't been yet.
Ideas from kitchens like yours
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The gastropub
Sunday at home
Home versions of the pie, the roast and the sticky toffee dessert, with a note from the chef on the parts worth coming in for. Sold behind the bar, it is the thing regulars buy for their parents at Christmas.
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The curry house
Easy curries for a weeknight
The menu favorites, rewritten for a home kitchen around one spice mix and a single pan. Good enough for a Tuesday - and the naan straight from the tandoor is still a reason to book a table.
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The café or bakery
Weekend bakes
The scones, the banana bread and the cake people queue for, scaled for a home oven - with your name on every page and your address on the back.
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The local institution
Twenty-five years in recipes
An anniversary book of the dishes people grew up on, with stories and photos from the staff and the regulars. Everyone who works there can add theirs from a link.
Two ways to sell it
Choose one, or do both - most places sell copies at the venue and share a link for everyone else.
At the venue
Copies behind the bar
Order copies in bulk and sell them at the bar, on the counter or by the register. You set the price, and the cost of each copy comes down the more you order.
- Your logo and branding on the cover
- A sample copy to approve before the full run
- One delivery, or split between several sites
- Invoicing for your business
Online
A link customers order from
Share one link - on your website, your menus, a table card or a receipt - and customers order their own copy. We print each one and post it straight to them.
- No stock to buy or store
- Nothing to pack or post
- Customers anywhere can buy, not just the ones who visit
- Reorders whenever you like
How it works
Tell us about your place
Use the form below. We'll come back with prices and a plan for your book.
Write the home versions
The chef adds the recipes, photos and notes. Staff can add theirs from a link, with no account needed.
We design it with you
Every page is laid out for you, and we'll help with the cover, your logo and anything custom.
Approve it, then sell it
Check every page and a sample copy, then sell at the venue, online, or both.
Questions from restaurants and pubs
Will customers cook at home instead of coming in?
- A home version is a taste of your food, not the meal. It keeps you in mind between visits, and the things a home kitchen can't do - the grill, the tandoor, the stock that takes two days, the service, the evening out - stay a reason to book. Many places write the home versions simply on purpose and say so in the book.
Do we have to give away our real recipes?
- No. You decide exactly what goes in. Most write simplified versions for a home kitchen - fewer steps, ingredients from the supermarket, no special equipment - and keep their techniques in the kitchen.
How do we sell it?
- Two ways, and you can do both. Order copies in bulk and sell them at the venue, setting your own price. Or share a link where customers order their own copy, and we print and post each one to them, so there is no stock to hold.
Can our logo and branding go on the cover?
- Yes. For bulk orders we help with the cover, your logo and any custom touches, and you approve a sample copy before the full run is printed.
How much does it cost?
- A single book starts at CA$74, and the cost of each copy comes down the more you order. For copies to sell, tell us roughly how many and we'll quote.
Can our staff add recipes too?
- Yes. Send them a link and they can add a recipe, a note and a photo in about five minutes, with no account needed.
Talk to us about your cookbook
Tell us a little about your place and how you'd like to sell. We'll reply with prices and next steps - there's no commitment until you approve a proof.
Put your kitchen on their shelf
Single copies start at CA$74. For copies to sell, we'll quote for your quantity.
Talk to us about yours