Our kitchen
Four cooks, one long stove and 600 steel boxes.
- 450
- lunches cooked a day
- 28
- days before the menu repeats
- 5
- veg and non-veg plans
Who we are
The lunch your amma would pack, at your desk by one.
Revathi started cooking lunches for six working neighbours in 2019. Today her team of four cooks feeds about 450 people a day from a kitchen in Gandhi Nagar, with the same recipes, cold-pressed oil and no ready-made masala.
Rice, sambar, rasam, two poriyals and curd, cooked fresh every morning and delivered in steel boxes across south Chennai. The full four-week menu is on WhatsApp every Sunday evening, so you can swap days in advance.
— The Saapadu Box team, Chennai
What we stand for
Three things we will not change
Cooked that morning
Nothing is cooked the night before. Rice goes on at 7 am and leaves the kitchen by 11.30.
Home amounts of oil
Cold-pressed groundnut and gingelly oil, used the way you would at home, not the way restaurants do.
Steel, not plastic
Every meal travels in a steel carrier that we wash and reuse. We have saved about 1.4 lakh plastic boxes so far.
This week: vathal kuzhambu, beans poriyal and paal payasam on Friday.
The full four-week menu is on WhatsApp every Sunday evening, so you can swap days in advance.
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Choose veg or non-veg and your start date.
We cook
Fresh every morning in our Adyar kitchen.
Lunch arrives
In a steel carrier between 12 and 1 pm.
Reviews
What customers say
Sample reviews, written for this demo. Real customer reviews replace them on your store.
I have eaten their lunch for two years. It tastes like home food, not restaurant food, which is the point.
Pausing on the app when I travel is easy, and the days carry over to the next month.
The Friday payasam is the highlight of my office week.
Try a week before you commit.
Six lunches for ₹690, delivered to your office or home.