Dabba Dreams: Get The Best Of Food From These Mumbai Tiffin Services

This delivery kitchen aims to make you miss your home-cooked food a little less, as they've partnered with 100+ home chefs serving over 30 local cuisines including Malvani, Bengali, Bundelkhandi, Maharashtrian, South Indian, Assamese, Goan, Lebanese, Chinese, Parsi and Italian. We hear their bestsellers are the Turkish Bun, Donar Kebab, Malvani Crab Curry, Bengali Maccher Jhol, Goan Chicken Cafreal, Parsi Chicken Farcha and Patra Ni Macchi, Gajar Pak, Puran Poli and Gujiya. (already drooling, folks) 

Price: On request (varies as per the meals and cuisines you opt for)

P.S: If you have a passion for cooking and feeding, you can also join their team to be a 'Lokal Chef'. 

Herbivore is a meal box service started by Bela Gupta to spoil vegetarians for choice, so that they don’t have to look for the green dot anymore. Each tiffin box has four elements – a salad, two parts of main course and either a soup or drink like fresh lemonade or soup. The types of food can vary from a Greek watermelon and arugula salad in one meal to a delicious stuffed bao in the other, pad Thai, laccha paratha or even sushi. And did we mention? No dish is repeated for 30 days.

Price: The five-meal plan is for INR 2,000, 10+1 meal plan for INR 4,000, 20+3 meal plan for INR 8,000 

P.S: Herbivore is in Mahim. And there's free delivery up to 4kms around Mahim, and an extra charge of INR 5 per km beyond that. 

HappyGrub is a dabba service in the city serving healthy, Jain and even diabetic meals in the city. Backed by a nutritionist, their meals start at INR 85 and go up to INR 125 per meal. You can choose from an eco meal, mini meal, or an executive meal for a month. They use a combination of whole grains, protein, fibre, and probiotics without compromising on taste. You can order an all-vegetarian lunch, dinner or both from HappyGrub.

Price: The price for two is 500.

This website basically offers healthy meals so go ahead and choose from their various plans. They have regular meals, diet meals, and high protein meals. They have a combination of Indian and continental cuisines, so while you will have the dal, roti, sabzi, and rice, you will also have salads, soups and more. All the plans are neatly segregated as per requirements. But the best part as that for an additional amount, you can also get a personalized diet upon consultation with their in-house nutritionist.

Price: The regular meals start at INR 75 (damn economical, right?)

Cooked by Moms is a social enterprise that makes available healthy, home-cooked food at workplaces and empowers women (who cook this food) alongside. If you’re wondering who these women are, they are home makers, the ones who have unconditional love that often seeps into the food they cook. They usually do pop-ups at several workplaces with their gobsmacking meals. 

Price: Check their site out for pricing details, or drop them a message to get your dabba customized. Its mostly price-on-request. 

P.S: They're not actively promoting or selling their dabbas right now, but you can always call them up and make a special request. 

The menu at Yummy Tiffins comes in a variety of mouth-watering cuisines and nutritional options. It is a judicious mix of carbohydrates and proteins, low-calorie content and no artificial flavours/preservatives. Whether it’s Hakka noodles, Cheese Balls or Gulab Jamun, they make it all. Yummy Tiffins also offers different meal plans, such as, diabetic meal, low/medium calorie meals, and meals for those who want to put on weight. This means, you can build your own healthy tiffin or choose from 10-12 combo schemes.

Price: A mini-meal starts at INR 60 

If simple, home-made and nutritious food is up your alley, hit up Spicebox for a lunch and dinner subscription. They serve North Indian cuisine and never repeat any dish throughout the month. They also deliver a different cuisine on Friday {called Friday surprise} which could include any other cuisine, such as Chinese, Thai and Continental. With the vegetarian dabba starting at INR 80, and non-vegetarian dabba at INR 90, it seems super affordable in a city where an average lunch can cost INR 250. A Spicebox meal will typically consist of rotis, rice, one veg/non-veg dish, a dal, a salad and dessert.

Price: A veg meal here starts at INR 80. 

This dabba service that caters to the health-conscious. It has a pocket-friendly and diverse menu offering healthy yet delicious Italian, continental and Oriental cuisine which has been Indianized to the local palate. The meal options include a chicken herbed brown rice meal, a smoked chicken in mushroom sauce with brown rice, a smoked chicken multi-grain sandwich, a green salad and a wheat pasta in Alfredo sauce.

Price: Between INR 250-280

This service is specifically designed to deliver regular keto meals to you for the most effective weight loss results. You opt for a program with them with a duration of 4-12 weeks, in which they design a keto-friendly nutrition plan for you, giving you keto pizzas, keto-sushi, special keto rice (that doesn’t have much carbs), keto paranthas and more. There are also veggie-friendly options such as cauli rice, zucchini and cheese roti. 

Price: A 3-day meal plan gets you a breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner at INR 3,000.