Traveling Spoon

Traveling Spoon
Company type	Private
Industry	Food tourism
Founded	2011
Founders	Stephanie Lawrence; Aashi Vel;
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, United States
Number of locations	Bangladesh; Cambodia; China; Greece; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Japan; Mexico; Philippines; Singapore; South Korea; Sri Lanka; Taiwan; Thailand; Turkey; Vietnam; Lebanon;
Area served	Worldwide
Services	Regional cuisine; Cooking classes;
Website	travelingspoon.com

Traveling Spoon is a San Francisco, California-based food tourism startup company that connects travelers with local hosts who prepare homemade local cuisine in their homes. Travelers can also purchase cooking classes and visit marketplaces for cooking ingredients with their hosts. The company offers home dining packages in 38 cities in 15 countries located throughout South and Southeast Asia and Japan.

Traveling Spoon was founded by Stephanie Lawrence and Aashi Vel and its beta site launched in July 2013. The bootstrapped company is a graduate of the Venture Lab Program at the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. The Venture Lab program also awarded the company $12,000 in prize money.