Let real people taste your cooking.
Your family always says it’s good. Here, friendly strangers tell you what they really think, and come back.
- Cooking★★★★★4.9
- Cleanliness★★★★★5.0
- Atmosphere★★★★★4.8
- Sarah K.★★★★★
Perfect risotto, creamy just as it should be. A touch more parmesan next time?
- Tom B.★★★★★
The best tiramisu of my life, no exaggeration.
Tired of biased reviews?
After every meal, your guests rate your cooking, cleanliness and atmosphere, and can leave you a note. Kind but honest reviews, to get better from one sqwat to the next.
Cut your teeth here.
Dreaming of opening your own restaurant, going to culinary school, or just hosting more often? Sqwat is your training kitchen, with real diners.
A menu that suits your whole table.
Sqwat reads the allergens and diets of every dish, and flags what clashes with your guests before you go shopping.
500 g Strawberries
200 g Plain flour
100 g Cold butter, diced
4 Egg yolksOver 600 recipes, and yours under your name.
Pick from the library, or add your recipes to “My dishes”. Share them in the library: they appear there under your name.
- Quantities recalculated for your table.
- Your shopping list, aisle by aisle.
Step by step in the kitchen, dish by dish.
What to start the day before, when to put it in the oven, when to take dessert out of the fridge: Sqwat walks you through every step so everything is ready when your guests sit down.
Fine dining or a humble curry.
Feel free to go full fine dining if you like! But a good soup, pasta, a curry, simple, effective and cheap, works too. What counts is that it’s homemade.
No room to host? Make boxes.
Prepare up to 10 to-go boxes: your neighbours pick them up at mealtime. One to-go sqwat a week, at most.
Circles for food lovers.
Join people who cook like you: food-lover circles post themed sqwats, and your loved ones can follow your progress in yours.
PublicWorld Kitchen · ManchesterOne country a month, from Dakar to Hanoi112 members
PublicHackney Food Lovers · LondonHomemade tables in the neighbourhood57 members
PublicVeggie & co · BrightonMeat-free recipes that make you hungry73 members
Everything, explained.
Do I make money?
No: your guests share the cost of your groceries, and you pay your share just like them. Sqwat is for the joy of hosting, not an income.
What if a guest doesn’t like it?
They’ll tell you kindly. Ratings stay hidden until both sides have rated, so everyone is sincere.
How much does it cost, and how is the price worked out?
The app is free. The host estimates the groceries, and Sqwat splits them across every place, the host’s own included: the host pays their share like everyone else. The price shown includes the Sqwat fee (5 % plus €0.99 per place). It’s set from the start and doesn’t change, even if some places stay empty. Your card is held when you ask for a place, and only charged if the host accepts you.
Max price or fixed price: what’s the difference?
With a max price, you pay at most the price shown: after the meal, the host enters what they really spent, and you get the difference back. With a fixed price, you pay the price shown, whatever the receipt says. And in a private or secret sqwat, the host can also cover everything: their guests pay nothing.
What the tax office says: does the host make money?
At home, it’s cost sharing: as long as the host eats with their guests and what they pay doesn’t exceed the real cost of the groceries, it isn’t income. Anything the host receives above that is taxable income they must declare. That’s why Sqwat works out the price from the groceries. For to-go sqwats, the rule is stricter: one to-go sqwat a week at most (beyond that, it becomes a catering business, with a professional kitchen and licences), and what the host receives is taxable, even if it only pays back the groceries.
Sqwat, for everyone.
The table is set.
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