El Coco Kitchen alternative · Barcelona
Looking for an alternative to El Coco Kitchen?
El Coco Kitchen and HealthyFoodBCN both pitch chef-led meal plans in Barcelona. The differences come down to how transparent the chef is, how the plan is designed, and how many languages the service runs in.
El Coco Kitchen has a clean dietary-tag UX — pick Vegan, Keto, HighProtein or LowCarb and a chef-led plan ships twice a week. It's a more thoughtful version of the catalog model. HealthyFoodBCN goes one step further: instead of picking a tag, you tell us how you actually eat — goals, allergies, training, family — and Frank builds a plan from there.
At a glance
| El Coco Kitchen | HealthyFoodBCN | |
|---|---|---|
| Per meal | Not published | €7.50–15 |
| Who cooks it | El Coco Kitchen's chef team | Frank Diaz, ex-Can Roca, Madrid Fusión 2019 |
| Freshness | Twice-weekly delivery | Cooked fresh, delivered twice a week (Mon + Wed) |
| Control | Filter by dietary tag (vegan / keto / high-protein / low-carb) | Plan built around your goals, allergies, family |
| Languages | English, Spanish | English, Spanish, Catalan, Russian, Ukrainian |
Where El Coco Kitchen wins
- Clear dietary-tag UX (Vegan / Keto / HighProtein / LowCarb)
- Chef-led positioning with twice-weekly delivery rhythm
- Bilingual site (English / Spanish)
Where HealthyFoodBCN wins
- Frank Diaz is named, profiled, and publicly identifiable — Madrid Fusión 2019, El Celler de Can Roca. El Coco Kitchen doesn't surface a specific chef.
- Personalization at the household level, not just dietary-tag filtering
- Transparent pricing (about €44/day for two meals, €60/day for a full day) versus consultation-only at El Coco
- Five languages, including Catalan, Russian and Ukrainian — broader than English / Spanish
HealthyFoodBCN is for someone who wants their plan built around their actual life rather than fitted into a dietary tag. Frank designs around your specific calorie target, training schedule, family makeup, and allergies. If your week doesn't fit cleanly into Vegan / Keto / HighProtein / LowCarb — and most people's don't — that's where the difference shows up.
The price math
El Coco Kitchen doesn't publish per-meal pricing on the public site, so direct comparison requires reaching out. HealthyFoodBCN is transparent: about €44/person/day for two meals and about €60/person/day for a full day, families paying less per head, with monthly examples on the process page. Easiest comparison: get a quote from El Coco for the same configuration you'd want from us, then compare. Both are chef-led plans built for daily nutrition rather than one-off events.
Best-fit recommendation
If El Coco's dietary-tag approach matches how you want to eat and you've had a good experience with their chef team: stick with them. If you want a named, profiled chef with public credentials, transparent pricing and broader language support: try us.
Common questions
Do you do specific diets like El Coco's vegan / keto / high-protein / low-carb?
Yes — Frank handles all of those configurations as capabilities of the plan, not as fixed product categories. Tell us on the form what you want (e.g. "strict keto, 1,800 kcal, 150g protein") and the plan is built around that.
El Coco delivers twice a week. Do you?
Yes — twice a week, in either a morning (7:30–9:00) or evening (18:30–20:00) window. Same cadence, slightly different mechanics.
Why doesn't El Coco list a chef by name?
We can't speak for them. What we can say: Frank Diaz is profiled on our About page, with his CV and Madrid Fusión 2019 win linked. If knowing who's cooking matters to you, that's a difference worth weighing.
Find the plan built for you
Different lives, different plans. Pick the one closest to yours and see how Frank designs the food.
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Want a plan built around you?
Tell us how you eat in a normal week. Frank designs a plan and we deliver twice a week, fresh.