Viva Foods was founded out of a deep love for real food-- food that is fresh, healthy, and authentic. We only use real ingredients in our delivered Viva meals.  We strive to make each and every dish a wholesome expression of our love for food, life, and living. 

Viva Foods Health Kitchen was born in 2012 as a facility in the heart of San Diego. Our kitchen has blossomed into a thriving one where our meals are created and prepared for delivery throughout San Diego county.

All of the ingredients we use are just that: local. We stock our restaurant kitchen in much the same way that we stock our home kitchen, with fresh ingredients that we select ourselves, each morning before cooking. 

In addition to our menu items, we also offer specials meals inspired by seasonal ingredients, the weather, and an expression of our passion. We are constantly on the lookout for new sources of ideas and inspiration, so when we travel the world (which we admit, we do often) we bring back our favorite flavors and culinary discoveries. 

Viva Foods blossomed in a very organic and fun way. I decided to learn how to cook because I wanted to feed my family with delicious, yet healthy food. Therefore, I signed up for cooking school and completed nutrition programs where I learned about different diets. At the time, it was a hobby and I was enjoying my new skills-- catering parties and bringing extraordinary food to the table whenever I hosted guests at my home. One of my close friends asked me to cook for him. We both wanted to lose weight so it seemed like a good idea to begin healthy meal prepping to stay fit. Since it began as a hobby, I was doing it for unpaid but eventually, he offered to pay for the service and bring some of his coworkers in to collaborate, and I accepted. This is where the journey began.

I started creating healthy recipes inspired by comfort food, and even my cooking graduation project included a low-calorie dessert that I called "Lady's First", which was a delicious TANGERINE GRANITA infused with CHAMPAGNE...Yum!

In cooking school you don't learn how to cook healthy, they care most about flavor, same in restaurants and that is frustrating once you know all the hidden fats and artificial flavors they use, so part of this business is to reeducate your staff and teach them about clean diets and healthy cooking techniques.

To me, diet is very important because since my teenage years I struggled with weight management; it took me a long time to learn how to eat properly, be healthy and still look fit. Today I can proudly say that I'm in the best shape of my life, including healthy food in your diet is a daily choice, not an easy task when you do it all by yourself.