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La Cocina, 2948 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA (2026)

06/11/2026

Comment VOLUNTEER, and we’ll send you info on how to get involved!

If you’ve been looking for a way to plug into something meaningful, meet people who show up, and put your skills toward building a more equitable city, this is it.

Volunteers are behind every milestone that La Cocina entrepreneurs reach, creating the ripple effects that generate jobs, support local vendors, and change the economic landscape of the Bay Area.

We’re actively seeking skilled volunteers in:

✨ Social Media
✨ Brand Strategy
✨ Accounting
✨ Website Development

To apply or learn more, visit 🔗 lacocinasf.org/volunteer! Questions? Let us know below ⬇️

06/10/2026

Congratulations to Chef Bini Pradhan on receiving an Entrepreneur Leadership Award from the SF Immigrant Rights Commission and OCEIA - 🙏🤩

We’re so proud to celebrate Chef Bini and her team’s 14 years of contributions to the economic and cultural fabric of San Francisco.

If you haven’t visited yet, this is your sign.

Congrats to the other 🔥 honorees, change makers all!

✨Chef Miguel Escobedo
✨Artist
✨Educator Bushra Tanaka Alabsi of
✨Youth Leader
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✨Cecilia Wang of

06/05/2026

Puerto Rican breakfast sandwiches and homemade pastries at Ferry Building Farmers Market this month? Yes please!

Meet Chef Ansarys Andino of ! She will be popping up every Saturday in June at the Ferry Building Farmers Market with homemade Puerto Rican sweets and savories✨

Ansarys began her pastry journey nearly 20 years ago in New York City kitchens where she worked her way up from cake decorator to head baker to pastry chef.

Now, she’s bringing those years of experience and creativity to the Bay Area through Chi Chi’s Kiosko, her Puerto Rican food business that joined our incubator program in summer 2025 🧡

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📍 La Cocina tent at the Saturday Farmers Market (behind the clock tower towards the back of the pier, next to .sf—a La Cocina graduate!)
🗓️ Saturdays in June
⏰ 8am – 2pm

06/04/2026

This Friday, June 5, seven La Cocina-born businesses are popping up at for their First Friday Block Party in Berkeley from 3pm - 8:30pm.

There will be live music, great wine, and seven food businesses serving ⚡️special menus⚡️.

No tickets or RSVP necessary!

📍Hammerling Wines, 1350 5th St., Berkeley

Featuring the following La Cocina-born businesses:

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See you there!

06/04/2026

An upscale dining residency at B-Side. Restaurant hot lists. 40 Under 40. is just getting started!

Chef Daniel Morales Vallejo and wife and co-owner Laura Gelvez joined our incubator program in 2023, and they’re demonstrating what’s possible when the right support meets real talent. What happened next, we’ll let the video tell. 

This is the kind of story La Cocina exists to co-write. We work with working-class immigrant, women, and BIPOC entrepreneurs to build sustainable food businesses from the ground up.

Watch Pacifico’s full story at the link in our profile. Then go taste what a thriving, equitable food economy looks like. Your reservation is part of the story, too.

05/27/2026

Last Tuesday night was everything. ✨ La Cocina’s 21st Annual Gala brought together an extraordinary community of supporters, chefs, and entrepreneurs to celebrate the butterfly effect of this work. A flutter here. Ripples everywhere.

A special thank you to Griff Harsh of for a remarkable $100,000 contribution that set the tone for the night.

This evening would not have been possible without our generous Presenting Sponsor and Table Sponsors and , Marathon Statera Project and .

To our Host Chef and La Cocina board member of , and to the extraordinary guest chefs who gave their time and talent: , Chef Ollie and Rachel of .manu.l . We are so honored you were at our table.

Much love to Graduate Reyna Maldonado of for her keynote remarks, highlighting the ripples of impact that her mother Ofelia has put into motion with their business.

A special moment behind the scenes: La Cocina program participants , Good Roux, , and took their learning into the kitchen, working alongside our guest chefs in real time. This is our program in action.

And to the La Cocina businesses who brought the sweetest close to the evening: .mana and .sf. Your food was the perfect final ripple.

Thank you to our partners and for making the evening feel as beautiful as it did.

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05/21/2026

Happy International Tea Day! 🍵 Looking for your next tea obsession in the Bay Area? Here are three La Cocina–born businesses serving everything from delicious matchas to chais 👇🏽

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Founder Janki Shah makes instant, plant-based chai made with all-natural ingredients without sacrificing flavor or tradition. They offer blends like Masala Chai, Cardamom Chai, and Matcha Latte.

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Wafa and Nusaibah Alameri serve specialty drinks like Strawberry Jam Matcha and Guava Matcha, made with ceremonial-grade matcha and housemade syrups.

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Beyond her beautiful pastries, Jennie Chen collaborates with fellow Bay Area businesses to host special dessert and tea experiences. Follow along to catch their next event!

Happy sipping! Tag us if you visit one of these incredible makers. ☕🫖

05/16/2026

Want to join La Cocina’s incubator program? Our next application round for aspiring food entrepreneurs opens May 18-29.

Do you live in the Bay Area and have a food business concept or perhaps you’re already selling it, but ready to take it further?

At La Cocina, we work with working-class women, immigrants, and people of color to formalize and launch their food businesses.

Deputy Director Emiliana Puyana breaks down the 6 things we look for in applicants.

Visit our link in bio to learn more.

05/15/2026

Carnaval is happening next week, and so is some seriously good food. Will we be seeing you?! 🎉

Eight La Cocina-born businesses are vending at this year’s , the largest multicultural festival on the West Coast. Come hungry and find us among 17 blocks of music, dancing, and the vibrant Latino, Caribbean, and African Diasporic traditions that make this celebration so special.

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🗓️ Saturday, May 23, and Sunday, May 24
⏰ 11am – 6pm
📍 Mission District: Harrison St. between 16th St. and 24th St.

05/08/2026

Looking for something new at the Ferry Building Farmers Market this month? is popping up every Saturday in May 🥳

Veronica and Jose have been bringing Guatemalan food to the Bay Area for a few years now. They first started as a ghost kitchen before realizing that wasn’t the best fit for them. In 2024, they joined La Cocina to rebuild, and last year they were even serving their food at Outside Lands!

At their pop-up, they will be serving:

🌿 Rellenitos: sweet mashed plantains filled with refried black beans, topped with sour cream.

🫔 Tamal Guatemalteco: wrapped in plantain leaf, stuffed with raisins, olive, prune, and your choice of chicken or pork. Dipped in recado (mole).

🌶️ ChiQ’aq Artisan Spicy Salsa: Veronica’s own habanero, garlic, onion, and honey sauce that enhances the flavor of any dish

📍 La Cocina tent at the Saturday Farmers Market (behind the clock tower towards the back of the pier, next to .sf—a La Cocina graduate!)
🗓️ Saturdays in May
⏰ 8am – 2pm

05/05/2026

Did you get your Mother’s Day gift yet? 👀 Get 15% off when you choose IRL pickup on a La Cocina gift box 🌸

Each gift box is filled with handcrafted treats from La Cocina–born businesses, making it a thoughtful gift for those you love! Plus, by purchasing a gift box, you’re supporting immigrant women and women of color chefs!

Pickup details:
📍 332 Golden Gate Ave:
🗓️ 5/5 from 9am to 6pm
🗓️ 5/6 from 9am to 7pm
🗓️ 5/7 from 9am to 5pm
🗓️ 5/8 from 9am to 5pm

Order now via the link in our bio with code: SFOnly15 🔗

05/01/2026

Join us in celebrating 14-year business anniversaries for graduates and 🎉

🌟 : Mariko Grady carried miso with her everywhere she traveled as a dancer, it was how she stayed healthy on the road. When she settled in SF, she started making miso at home, then for a school fundraiser after the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami, and was inspired to formalize her business when people kept coming back for more! Four years ago, she opened her brick-and-mortar location Aedan Koji Kitchen, where she teaches Miso-making classes, Koji & Miso cooking classes, serves pre-order Koji Bentos, and caters. All rooted in her belief that miso is a healing food.

📍613 York St, San Francisco

🌟 : Bini Pradhan grew up in Kathmandu, where her mother cooked for the Nepalese royal family. She carried that culinary legacy to cooking school in Bombay, to restaurants in the Nepali food industry, and eventually to SF. What started out as pop-ups has grown into Bini’s Nepalese dumplings called MoMos becoming an iconic SF food staple, a team of 10, two locations, kiosks at several farmers market, catering, and frozen MoMos that bring a taste of the Himalayas to your home.

📍1001 Howard Street, San Francisco (at 6th Street)
📍1 Post St, San Francisco

The ripple effects that these two businesses have catalyzed over 14 incredible years have touched thousands of lives. 🧡

Celebrate them by following them on Instagram and visiting IRL! 👏🏽

04/29/2026

Swap your weekly sourdough for something that gives back 🧡

In a moment when immigrant communities are under threat, two immigrant-owned businesses, and , and Black-owned , have come together to respond the way they know best: by feeding people and building community.

This May, they’re releasing the limited-edition All Heat, No Hate sourdough loaf, baked in solidarity, that celebrates what immigrants bring to our communities and our tables, past, present, and future.

The loaf is made with:
🌟 Rize Up’s Cheddar sourdough base
🌟 Flor de Chile’s Jalapeño crunchy chile
🌟 Pass the Sauced’s Roasted Fire Salsa

Each loaf costs $20, and a portion of proceeds goes to La Cocina.

Order at 🔗 rizeupsourdough.com or find it at these local retailers:

🌟 in Noe Valley
🌟 .sf in Nob Hill will have it on their deli menu

Use discount code LaCocina+Rize+Collab for 10% off.

04/24/2026

Flowers and handcrafted treats, both made by women who built local businesses. Sounds like the perfect Mother’s Day gift to us. 🧡

We’ve partnered with local, woman-owned florist to give one lucky winner a $175 bouquet, AND our La Cocina gift box is the perfect add-on gift, filled with handcrafted treats from entrepreneurs who are women and mothers (it ships nationwide). 🎁

Here’s how to enter:

1️⃣ Follow and
2️⃣ Like this post
3️⃣ Tag your friends in the comments! Each comment = one entry, up to 3 entries allowed

Whether you win or shop, you’re supporting women-owned, BIPOC/immigrant-owned, locally-rooted businesses every step of the way.

Sweepstake ends April 30, 2026. The winner will be selected at random and contacted on May 1, 2026. No purchase necessary. Bouquet delivery limited to San Francisco.

04/23/2026

Imagine raising money for work you actually believe in. ✨ La Cocina is hiring a Development Manager to help fuel a mission that opens doors for immigrant women and BIPOC entrepreneurs in the food industry. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to make a real difference, we’d love to meet you.

This is a full-time position that requires 3 days working in person each week in San Francisco. Salary range is $92K–$98K with robust benefits. Link in bio to apply.

04/10/2026

Let’s give it up for Chefs Azalina, Fernay, Nite, and Reem! 🎉🎉

This is another INCREDIBLE year for La Cocina alums who made it on the Top 100 Restaurants list 👏🏽 Congrats to these remarkable leaders and to every business recognized!

🌟 Chef Fernay McPherson, Fillmore native, brought soul food back to her roots when she opened on Fillmore Street in 2024, earning national acclaim for her Rosemary Fried Chicken and Mac & Cheese. Don’t miss her BBQ Turkey Meatballs and Banana Pudding.

🌟 , the Bay Area’s foremost Cambodian restaurant, marks Chef Nite Yun’s return, serving Ferry Building diners her Kampot regional cooking through dishes like her signature Pork Noodle Soup in 8-hr. slow simmered broth and Salt & Pepper Beef.

🌟 is the Bay Area’s only Mamak restaurant, where Chef Azalina Eusope’s four-course tasting menu traces her multigenerational family lineage of Malaysian Indian Muslim street vendors. April’s menu features a stuffed vermilion rockfish and a noodle dish with chicken liver and char siu.

🌟 is returning to Oakland with a new Jack London Square bakery and café, the latest step for Chef Reem Assil’s nationally recognized, community-rooted California-Arab food concept that includes a Mission restaurant and wholesale operation.

Please visit these restaurants IRL! You’ll get some of the best food in the Bay and support small businesses that strengthen our communities. 🧡

04/08/2026

Number 3 is often the most overlooked mistake food entrepreneurs make!

Starting a food business is one of the hardest things a person can do. The hours are long, the margins are thin, and the paperwork alone can feel like a full-time job.

After 20 years of supporting working-class food entrepreneurs in San Francisco, our team has seen the patterns. We’ve worked with hundreds of businesses from restaurants to catering to CPG.

Emiliana Puyana, our incubator program director, has witnessed it all, and she’s sharing 5 of the most common mistakes she sees food entrepreneurs make on their path to building a thriving business.

Food business owners: what’s one of the biggest hurdles you’re experiencing? 👇🏽

04/07/2026

Last call to apply for La Cocina’s May cohort ⏰

Planning to apply? Attending an orientation is required! Next one is tomorrow evening...

🗓️ La Cocina Kitchen Incubator Orientation
⏰ April 8 from 6pm - 8pm
📍 2948 Folsom St. (La Cocina on Folsom), San Francisco

At orientation, you’ll learn about our program and what it takes to start and grow a food business as a participating business.

Applications will be open from May 18 to 29. For more details and to RSVP for orientation, visit lacocinasf.org/apply or click the link in our bio.

04/03/2026

Have you ever tasted Yemeni coffee with a date cold foam?? If you haven’t, this is your sign to visit at Saturday’s Farmers Market this month! ☕️✨

Wafa and Nusaibah Alameri, a mother-and-daughter duo, started Royal Mocha to share the rich flavors and traditions of Yemen with the Bay Area.

Wafa and Nusaibah work directly with the growers who harvest their beans, making sure those relationships are built on fair wages and real transparency.

They’re especially committed to supporting female coffee growers in regions where women have historically had little access to economic opportunity.

At their pop-up, they’re rounding out their famous coffees with delicious matchas and a syrup-soaked semolina dessert called Basbousa.

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📍 La Cocina tent at the Saturday Farmers Market (behind the clock tower towards the back of the pier, next to .sf—a La Cocina graduate!)
🗓️ Saturdays in April
⏰ 8am – 2pm

Unable to visit them at the ? Find them on !

04/02/2026

Exciting news: La Cocina businesses are now on ! Pre-order from a variety of mouthwatering meals for pick up in your neighborhood. 🍽️✨

To celebrate, get FREE delivery on your first order with code “LACOCINA” through April 7 🥳

Here’s how it works:

1️⃣ Browse the La Cocina section on letshubshop.com
2️⃣ Pre-order by 5pm on Tues., April 7, for delivery on April 11
3️⃣ Pick up from one of 45+ neighborhood locations

🍽️ Enjoy meals from:

Each of these businesses help create vibrancy and re-circulate money into our local community, creating jobs, supporting local vendors, and nourishing us. Try out this new way to support La Cocina food businesses: letshubshop.com 🧡

04/01/2026

Mark your calendars for this Friday, April 3 🗓️ 7 La Cocina–born businesses are popping up at for their First Friday Block Party 🍷✨

Expect live music, great wine, and 7 incredible food businesses serving special menus! No tickets or RSVP necessary.

📍 Hammerling Wines, 1350 5th St., Berkeley
⏰ Friday, April 3 from 3pm - 8:30pm

🍽️ Featuring the following La Cocina-born businesses:

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Will we be seeing you?! 🧡

03/25/2026

For the first time, our gift boxes are available for local pickup! 🎁 Hostess gift. Client thank-you. Care package. New neighbor welcome. Treat yourself.

No matter the occasion, the thoughtfulness will be felt with delicious handcrafted treats that support La Cocina-born food businesses ⤵️

⭐️ - Alegrias (Milk Chocolate Amaranth Bites)
⭐️ - Instant Cardamom Chai
⭐️ - Spicy Crunchy Chile Mix
⭐️ - Nam Jim Ped (Thai Spicy Cilantro Sauce)
⭐️ - Black Sesame Seed Toffee Brittle
⭐️ - Vietnamese-Style Corn Nuts
⭐️ .sf - Almond Cranberry Nougat
⭐️ Sal de Vida - Chipotle with Cacao Nibs, Cajun, or Mesquite Smoked Salt Pepitas

📦 Also ships nationwide
📍 NEW local pick up available

Bay Area friends: Order now through March 30th for pickup at Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco! Pickup is available through March 31st.

🔗 Order through the link in our bio.

03/07/2026

Supporting local isn’t just about eating out. It’s also about showing up in small, consistent ways 🧡

Let us know some ways you’re supporting your local food businesses! ⬇️

02/26/2026

We’re celebrating Chef Tina Stevens of , a La Cocina graduate. This month, it’s her 11th business anniversary! 🧡✨ 
Entrepreneurship runs in Chef Tina’s blood. Her great-grandma opened a convalescent home, which her grandma took over. Her grandpa had an auto mechanic shop, and her dad ran a janitorial business. Growing up surrounded by that spirit, Tina imagined herself running a seamstress shop and fashion boutique, even making her and her husband’s wedding outfits. But it was her 3-tier wedding cake she made that stopped everyone in their tracks. The requests started pouring in from family, then friends, then strangers, and a business was born. 
Today, specializes in beautifully crafted custom cakes and desserts, and has expanded - by popular demand - to offer cookie and cake decorating experiences for personal celebrations and corporate team-building events. Swipe to see some of her stunning creations ➡️

Most food businesses don’t make it to year two, let alone year ELEVEN! Chef Tina has navigated a pandemic, rising costs, and an industry that doesn’t make it easy for Black women to thrive. Her longevity is a testament to her talent, creativity, tenacity, and a whole lot of love for her craft. 
Supporting Chef Tina means keeping dollars in the community and marking the moments that matter most. Order a delectable custom cake or book a one-of-a-kind decorating experience. Visit agirlnamedpinky.com.

02/25/2026

International House of Brunch was the capstone for 4 businesses who completed 6 months in our pre-incubation program. During that time, La Cocina delivered 1,000 hours of hands-on technical assistance across product development, marketing, sales, finance, and operations — equipping these entrepreneurs with the tools and business readiness to pursue opportunities like this and advance into the next stage of incubation.

Congratulations on this incredible milestone, we’re so proud of you all! 👏🏽

From pastrami croquetas and Shakshuka to Thai-inspired French toast, Egyptian moussaka, and bottomless Yemeni coffee, this was a fabulous brunch and a vibrant celebration of culture, collaboration, and community from four talented La Cocina entrepreneurs:

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A heartfelt thank you to our generous sponsor California Food Service Instant Rebates for making this event possible.

Let us know... should we do more brunches?! 🌍☕️✨

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