Your kitchen. Your business.
MehkoMe is where California home cooks run things: claim your kitchen on the map, get permitted step by step, renew on time, and sell more — with Ask Mehko beside you in your language.
Don't know where to begin — or what you're curious about? Ask Mehko walks you through it, step by step.
Already cooking? Claim your kitchen
More than 1,200 kitchens are already on the map. Find yours and make it yours — your photos, your menu, your story.
Not on the map yet? List it free →
New here? Your path to permitted
Eight steps from "I cook" to a permitted kitchen — Ask Mehko helps with every one, in your language.
Ask Mehko, your kitchen copilot
Free, in your language, no account — and everything you type stays saved on your device.
Your county's permit, at a glance
Fresh from the Kitchen Spotlight
One permitted kitchen featured every morning. Yours could be next — claimed kitchens go first.
No MEHKO program where you live?
MEHKOs exist only where a county says yes. Ask Mehko can draft the letter to your Board of Supervisors — whole counties have opened this way.
Keep it free 💚
MehkoMe is free for every California home cook. Chip in to keep it that way.
One family, three doors
MEHKO Finder helps neighbors find your kitchen. MehkoMe is your home base for running it. MEHKO Foods tells the food's story.