Salt Lake City has a new standard for meal prep. Avant Delivery offers fully cooked meals made in Salt Lake by classically trained chefs and delivered on Sundays in reusable containers. All meals are cooked locally, designed to reheat well, and delivered in a closed loop packaging system that eliminates single use waste. There is no subscription required to order meals.
Customers place orders by Friday at 2 PM. Meals are prepared over the weekend and delivered fresh on Sundays. On the following delivery, containers and insulated bags are returned, washed, sanitized, and reused.
Avant addresses two common frustrations with meal delivery services in Salt Lake City: low food quality, and large amounts of single use packaging that end up in the trash.
Meal Highlights
Avant’s menu rotates monthly, but several customer favorites return regularly. Dishes like Hawaiian Teriyaki Chicken, melt in your mouth Bohemian Braised Pork Shank, and home cooked Red Wine Braised Beef.
(sponsored, Avant Delivery) | Braised Bohemian Pork Shank with braised carrots and garlic mashed potatoes.
Reuse That Is Easier Than Single Use
Avant was founded by Sam Schwartz, a former professional big mountain skier who won the Junior World Tour Championship event at Snowbird in 2013. While Sam did not come from a culinary or technology background, his years skiing some of the world’s most demanding terrain shaped how he thinks about responsibility, consumption, and impact.
As meal delivery services grew in popularity during the COVID pandemic, Sam noticed that most companies relied on single use plastic trays, cardboard boxes, and insulation that filled up trash cans after one delivery. He noticed that even though customers care about sustainability, they needed the convenience of single use to accommodate their busy lives.
Avant was designed around a simple principle: reuse has to be easier than throwing something away. Sam recognized that customers with busy schedules would only participate if the system required little effort. With each delivery, customers return empty containers from the previous week. Those containers are then professionally cleaned, sanitized, and returned to circulation. In Avant’s first year operating in Salt Lake they kept 37,000 pounds of trash out of the landfill.
For customers, the process is easy. Containers are rinsed and set out at the next delivery.
Personal Chef Level Cooking, Fully Prepared
Avant’s kitchen is led by Executive Chef Dallon Stewart, a lifetime Salt Lake local who trained in classical culinary programs and spent time cooking in France before returning to Utah. The company describes its food as closer to what a personal chef would prepare than a typical restaurant or meal prep service.
Menus are built around technique and ingredient quality rather than speed or cost minimization. Avant’s monthly menus feature Chef Dallon’s elevated take on classic entrées and protein-forward power bowls infused with global flavors. Customers can also choose from fresh salads, seasonal sides, and rotating soups, or opt for bulk proteins for maximum flexibility
All meals arrive fully cooked and require no preparation, just reheating. Dishes are designed to maintain flavor after delivery and through the week.
The focus is on complete, balanced dishes intended to replace cooking at home with the benefit of personal chef level quality.
(sponsored, Avant Delivery) | Braised Pork Shank, Harvest Salad, and Potato Leek Soup.
Made Fresh in Salt Lake City
All Avant meals are cooked locally in Salt Lake City. Keeping production local allows the company to maintain direct oversight of food quality, adjust menus based on seasonal ingredients, and respond quickly to customer feedback. Meals are not shipped, frozen, or produced in large national factories. What customers receive is food made nearby by a kitchen team that supports the local economy and is easy to contact. To date, Avant has served more than 700 households across the Salt Lake area.
Local Customer Service, No Subscription
Customer support is handled locally. Questions about orders, delivery, or menus are answered by a team that works directly with the kitchen and delivery staff. If something goes wrong, Avant fixes it.
Avant is designed to be simple to use. There is no required subscription and no long term commitment. Customers order when they want and choose meals à la carte or in bundles.
Where Avant Delivers
All of Salt Lake County, Bountiful, Lehi, Alpine, and Northern Saratoga Springs (North East of Westlake High School).
Deals to Get Started
Get 7 free meals across your first 3 orders.
Start with 6 chef-made meals for $60 (that’s 3 meals free) — then receive 2 free meals on your second order and 1 on your third.
Start with the Avant intro offer here