The Kitchen

08/12/2026

At the Malden Farmers Market till 7pm today! We have smash burgers, teriyaki chicken and rice bowls (gluten free), s’mores cookies, and mint limeade! Stop on by!

08/11/2026

This evening, Aug 11, 6pm we are doing a free or pay what you can Cooking for a Cause class at The Kitchen . The group will make 100-150 meals that will be donated to the Melrose Community Freezer (The Food Drive) and the Food Link (services the Boston area) for those facing food insecurities in our communities.

https://www.thekitchenmelrose.com/event-details-registration/cooking-for-a-cause-100-meals-for-the-community-freezer-2026-08-11-18-00

In addition, we just sent out our weekly e-newsletter and several new classes have been posted! Highlights are “The Bear” cooking class, a vegetarian corn focused class with Fork on a Road, kids after school series for the Fall, caregiver and me classes, teen series, and pasta classes. Food pop-ups are being planned out, stay tuned!

https://www.thekitchenmelrose.com/our-workshops

Cooking classes for kids, teens, adults and monthly dinner parties!

08/08/2026

How would you like to WIN a big basket of Melrose gift cards - valued at over $400? The *Taste of Melrose* raffle prize is back and better than ever. Huge thanks to the many restaurants and stores and businesses that continue to support us! Truly grateful!

And it's not too late to be included - raffle tickets are going to print next week. Great exposure!

Thank you to the following businesses:

🍽 Giacomo's of Melrose
🍽 Jitters Cafe Inc
🍽 La Qchara
🍽 Mama Jean
🍽️Peppino's Italian Market
🍽 Rising Eagle Publick House
🍽 T'ahpas 529
🍽 The Kitchen
🍽 Turner's Seafood
🍽 Wood and Fire Neapolitan Pizzeria

07/30/2026

Love this photo of some of our Kitchen team! Thank you ED Photography for capturing this moment!

07/30/2026

Teens were busy baking this week! We have four more weeks of cooking camps and two spots available for the next three weeks! For the week of August 24, we are doing a “chopped” week where teens get creative with their table and come up with their own dishes from a curated bin in a friendly competition cooking camp! 8 spots remaining for that week. Signups still available! Melrose schools begin in September!

07/25/2026

What a beautiful evening at the Melrose Summer Stroll (aka one heck of a block party). Thankful for our partnership with Hugo’s hugos_appliances_melrose for enabling us to set up in front of their store front and for hooking us up with another amazing Blackstone to cook our smash burgers on! We now own two! Thank you Melrose Chamber Of Commerce and the DPW for always running a smooth stroll (we are proud members!), thank you all for stopping by and helping us make the evening a success. And a huge thank you to my Chef’s David, Pedro, and Danny for absolutely killing it on the grills. Oh and thank you to my son Solomon for working hard and making sure everyone got the right order! We had an absolute blast…taking a few days to recover from an amazing week of smash burgering!

07/24/2026

Happy Friday! You can find us in front of Hugo’s Melrose Appliance for the summer stroll today! We’ll be set up to sell food from 5-8pm (or until sold out). Step inside Hugo’s for a free refreshment 🥤.

On the menu today…

Smash burgers-can add candy bacon or jalapeño guacamole
🥑

Smoked & Slow Roasted Pulled Pork Bowl
Beer’b’Que Sauce & David’s Honey Butter Basted Native Cornbread (amazing trust) 🐖

Fresh Watermelon Lemonade
Muddled Lime & Mint 🍉

S’mores Cookie
Brown Butter-Graham Cracker Cookie, Tons of Hershey’s Chocolate Chips, Fluff Ribbons & Toasted Marshmallows 🍪

(Black Bean Burger Available Upon Request and GF buns)

07/24/2026

Happy Friday! You can find us in front of Hugo's Melrose Appliance for the summer stroll! We’ll be set up to sell food from 5-8pm (or until sold out). Step inside Hugo’s for a free refreshment 🥤.

On the menu today…

Smash burgers-can add candy bacon or jalapeño guacamole
🥑

Smoked & Slow Roasted Pulled Pork Bowl
Beer’b’Que Sauce & David’s Honey Butter Basted Native Cornbread (amazing trust) 🐖

Fresh Watermelon Lemonade
Muddled Lime & Mint 🍉

S’mores Cookie
Brown Butter-Graham Cracker Cookie, Tons of Hershey’s Chocolate Chips, Fluff Ribbons & Toasted Marshmallows 🍪

(Black Bean Burger Available Upon Request and GF buns)

07/23/2026

The next two days are going to be beautiful out! The Kitchen Melrose is popping up at the Melrose Farmers' Market today from 2:30-7:30pm (did you hear there will be a beer garden!) and also at the Melrose Summer Stroll in front of Hugo's Melrose Appliance on Friday from 6pm-9pm, selling smash burgers, veggie burgers, and salmon bowls (we’ll also have GF buns available for burgers). We won’t have any 💩 lettuce on our burgers 🍔 ! In fact? Buy your non-contaminated produce from your local farmers! See you at the Market (and or the summer stroll). Melrose Chamber of Commerce 🎶

07/20/2026

💥 burgers 🍔 this week!!

Did someone say SMASH BURGERS? Stop by Hugo's Melrose Appliance on Friday night for a collab with The Kitchen ! Get there early as they are delish, in demand, and will likely sell out! 🍔

(and it looks like they're at the Melrose Farmers' Market on Thursday as well. Two chances to get these savory treats!)