A kitchen that cooks for dogs and cats, the way you would
Tiffin Tails is a Bengaluru kitchen cooking fresh, human-grade meals for dogs and cats every morning and delivering them chilled across the city - and frozen to the rest of India.
Lakshmi Hegde spent ten years as a pastry chef in hotel kitchens before her Labrador, Kaapi, went off his kibble at eleven. She started cooking for him - chicken, red rice, pumpkin, a spoon of coconut oil - and when his coat and appetite came back, the neighbours noticed. In 2021 she rented a small kitchen above a darshini on 12th Main and began delivering tiffins to forty dogs on a borrowed scooter.
Every recipe we make is written with Dr. Kavya Shenoy, a veterinary nutritionist, and balanced to the published nutrient guidelines for adult dogs and cats. We cook in small batches from 5 AM, cool the food fast in a blast chiller and pack it the same morning. Meat comes from two farms outside Hosur we have visited, fish from the Mangaluru catch, and vegetables from KR Market before sunrise.
Our meals are food, not medicine: if your pet has a medical condition, we will happily share the full recipe and nutrient profile with your vet before you switch. We print the protein, vegetable and grain split on every pack, and we will tell you exactly what went into any batch if you ask.
- Dogs and cats fed every week
- 6,800+Dogs and cats fed every week
- When the kitchen starts cooking
- 5 AMWhen the kitchen starts cooking
- Preservatives, fillers or by-products
- 0Preservatives, fillers or by-products
A short history
2021
One tiffin for Kaapi
Lakshmi cooks for her Labrador and then for forty neighbourhood dogs from a rented kitchen above a darshini.
2022
A nutritionist joins
Dr. Kavya Shenoy rewrites every recipe to published nutrient guidelines and the first cat meals launch.
2024
Our own cold chain
Three insulated vans and a blast chiller mean same-morning chilled delivery across all of Bengaluru.
2026
Frozen to 40+ cities
Overnight dry-ice courier takes Tiffin Tails to Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai and beyond.
What we hold to
Cooked the morning it ships
We cook from 5 AM in our Indiranagar kitchen and dispatch by 10. Nothing sits in a warehouse - Bengaluru orders are on the doorstep within hours.
Cold chain, door to bowl
Chilled 0-4 °C in our own vans across Bengaluru; blast-frozen and packed in dry ice for overnight courier everywhere else.
Human-grade, nutritionist-written
FSSAI-licensed kitchen, the same suppliers as a restaurant, and every recipe balanced by a veterinary nutritionist. The split is printed on the pack.
What customers say
“Bruno is a fourteen-year-old indie who had stopped finishing his kibble. He licks the steel bowl clean twice a day now and waits by the door on delivery mornings.”
“My two cats are the fussiest eaters in Whitefield. The Seer Fish Mash is the first wet food they have both agreed on.”
“Frozen packs reach us in Pune overnight, still rock hard in the dry ice. The day labels make it idiot-proof for my parents when we travel.”
New recipes, feeding tips and first dibs on festive treats
A short letter from the kitchen every fortnight: the recipe we are testing, a feeding question answered by our nutritionist, and early access to the Diwali treat tins. No spam, ever.