10 verified services for home-cooked and healthy meals to bookmark for those affected by COVID-19 in Mumbai

With the surge in the number of cases across the country, many people who are quarantined at home with COVID-19 are relying on home-cooked, nutritious meals to get them through. If you’re required to isolate and don’t have the resources or someone at home to cook you a meal, we’ve put together a handy guide of home kitchens and meal services you can order from in Mumbai. 

These meal services have all been independently verified. 

This Andheri-based home kitchen run by Chirs Kane along with her husband and daughters is offering a special menu for those in quarantine, featuring healthy fare cooked with less oil and spices. The menu changes daily and you have several vegetarian and non-vegetarian staples such as soup, rice or pulao, a variation of dals, rotis and a dry appetiser. You can order these meals daily or even opt for the discounted seven-day or 14-day meal package. You need to place your order at least a day prior. 

Meal: Dinner only

Price: Rs 299 for a vegetarian and non-vegetarian meal

Delivery: Across Mumbai via services like WeFast. A delivery radius between Bandra and Malad is preferred, however, they can also cater to areas such as Colaba and Borivali

Call or WhatsApp: 09820050465, 09820044665

This home kitchen in Churchgate can create customised meals for you if you’re quarantining at home and have limited options at your disposal. The all-vegetarian meals are well-balanced with a focus on high-protein ingredients and no sugar—suitable for recovering patients. A standard meal typically comprises two sabzis, dal, rice, rotis, and a salad and the menu is usually different each day. On Sundays, you have the option of choosing from a continental menu, while Saturdays offer a variation on Indian fare like paneer subzi, pulao or kadhi khichdi. 

Meal: Lunch only

Price: Rs 225 for a meal, including continental meals on Sundays

Delivery: All over Mumbai via services like Belboy

Call or WhatsApp: 09920724817

The Bandra-based kitchen is offering all-vegetarian meals for patients in quarantine and currently cooking meals for about 15 people a day. You can expect a mix of healthy staples such as dal, sabzi, rotis, and one dry vegetable preparation. You need to ideally place an order a day prior, before 6PM in the evening.

Meal: Lunch only

Price: Rs 200 for a meal

Delivery: All over Mumbai via WeFast

Call or WhatsApp: 09920175003

The Goregaon-based home kitchen is offering all-vegetarian meals featuring North Indian and Gujarati fare that can be customised, along with using less oil and spices. For instance, if you have kids at home that may not want the usual dal, sabzi and roti, they can also whip up pizzas, garlic bread, sandwiches and the like. You can choose from breakfast, lunch and dinner meals with a typical lunch meal comprising two types of sabzis, parathas, rice, salad and buttermilk. These include options like dal fry or pav bhaji, and breakfast dishes such as idlis, uttapams, poha, dosas, upma and more. You need to ideally order half a day in advance or a day prior. 

Meal: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Price: Rs 200 for lunch/dinner and Rs 100 for breakfast

Delivery: Across Mumbai via WeFast

Call or WhatsApp: 09833280654

South-Mumbai-based Fatema Ujjainwala is catering to patients in quarantine with fresh, home-cooked meals with a mix of vegetarian and non-vegetarian options. A typical vegetarian meal comprises rice, rotis, dal fry, soup, and a vegetable preparation. The menu changes daily and non-veg options include dishes like chicken curry, pulao and more. Ideally place your order a day prior, or for dinner meals latest by 2PM on that day. 

Meal: Lunch and dinner

Price: Rs 150 for a vegetarian meal and Rs 200 for a non-vegetarian meal

Delivery: Fatema and her husband undertake deliveries themselves around South Mumbai

Call or WhatsApp: 08169779261

Based out of Lokhandwala, you can get simple, home-cooked vegetarian meals delivered home for lunch and dinner. The lunch menu is usually fixed comprising one type of dal, like dal fry or dal pakwan, rotis, subzi, rice and a salad, while for dinner customers can request variations or something of their choice.

Meal: Lunch and dinner

Price: Rs 175 for a lunch meal, while dinner varies depending on what you choose

Delivery: Free of cost in and around Lokhandwala and Kandivali. The kitchen also uses services like WeFast

Call: 08591331781

Borivali-based Jenny D’Souza is cooking healthy, nutritious meals out of her home, offering breakfast, lunch and dinner with a menu that changes daily. Breakfast options include dishes such as poha, upma with sheera, uttapams and more, while lunch and dinner options can be vegetarian or non-vegetarian and includes a dry and wet sabzi, dal, rice and chapatis with options like mix vegetable korma or sambar. Non-vegetarian options include chicken curry or fish fry, among others. You need to preferably place your order a day prior. 

Meal: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner

Price: Rs 100 for a vegetarian breakfast meal, Rs 200 for vegetarian lunch/dinner and Rs 250 for non-vegetarian lunch/dinner

Delivery: Between Mira Road and Malad via services like WeFast

Call: 09819930666

Based out of Navi-Mumbai, this home kitchen is offering simple, home-cooked vegetarian meals for lunch and dinner. You can expect staples such as dal, rice, rotis and sabzis, as part of the regular meals or even order a half tiffin that comprises either dal, rice and salad or else rotis, sabzi and a salad. For lunch meals, you need to ideally order by 9AM on the same day or preferably a day prior, and for dinner at least by 3PM on the same day. 

Meal: Lunch and dinner

Price: Rs 130 for a meal

Delivery: Across areas such as Koparkhairne, Vashi, Nerul, Seawoods, Belapur and Sanpada. Deliveries are currently being undertaken by the family themselves with meal drop-offs at the building or society gate

Call: 09619998688

While this is a subscription meal service provider and not a home kitchen, if you’re looking for healthy, home-style meals, Spice Box offers a weekly subscription service providing vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals for lunch or dinner. A standard vegetarian meal will get you a vegetable preparation, dal, rice, rotis, raita, salad and dessert or you can also opt for a mini-meal which comes with one vegetarian dish, dal and rotis. You can even opt for a weekly plan alternating between veg and non-veg meals on different days. 

Meal: Lunch and dinner

Price: Rs 120 for a standard vegetarian meal and Rs 110 for a mini-meal for a weekly plan

Delivery: Across Mumbai at a charge of Rs 35 

Order online: Spicebox.in

Harshada and Meet Pandya are cooking out of their home kitchen in Kandivali, offering vegetarian lunch and dinner meals for patients in quarantine. Lunch usually comprises a mix of dal, rice, rotis, and a sabzi while dinner offers variations such as pav bhaji, chole and the like. The meals are lightly spiced and cooked in keeping with requirements for COVID patients. You need to place orders for lunch the evening before while dinner orders can be taken latest by morning of the same day. 

Meal: Lunch and dinner

Price: Rs 120 for a meal

Delivery: Between Malad and Borivali. Currently, these are being undertaken by the family themselves

Call: 09619037817, 09619061454

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