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Real Food, No BS

Hot Date Kitchen makes one thing and makes it properly: whole California Medjool dates, hand-stuffed with sunflower butter and dipped in single-origin 75% dark chocolate. No date paste. No palm oil. No sugar substitutes. No "natural flavors" that aren't natural. Just real ingredients you can pronounce.

How It Started

Hot Date Kitchen began in 2017 as a simple kitchen experiment: California Medjool dates, stuffed with spiced sunflower butter, dunked in 75% dark chocolate. Friends kept asking for more. Then strangers. Then retailers. The brand launched in 2020, built not from a pitch deck but from a home kitchen and an obsession with doing food the right way. Today every pouch is still made by hand in Rhode Island.

Owned and Run by Farzad Khosravi

Hot Date Kitchen is owned and run by Farzad Khosravi, who leads the brand today with the same standard it started with: make a snack you can feel good about eating, and tell the truth about what goes into it. Questions? Email Farzad directly at farzad@hotdatekitchen.com.

Four Real Ingredients

Every pouch of Hot Dates starts with the same four ingredients: Non-GMO California Medjool dates, single-origin 75% dark chocolate from Republic del Cacao (B-Corp certified), Non-GMO sunflower butter from SunButter (made in North Dakota from U.S.-grown sunflowers), and directly sourced spices from Burlap & Barrel, a Public Benefit Corporation that works with smallholder farmers worldwide.

That's it. No palm oil. No sugar substitutes. No fillers. No shortcuts. The result: a snack with over 18 bioactive compounds and micronutrients, including 9 minerals, 6 vitamins, and 2 bioactives. Low glycemic. Two grams of added sugar. Vegan, gluten-free, and nut-free.

Still Handmade in Rhode Island

Hot Date Kitchen is still made in small batches, by hand, in Rhode Island. Every date is individually stuffed and hand-dipped. That's intentional. It's slower, yes. It's also better. You can taste the difference when someone actually cares what goes into the food.

The brand punches well above its weight: featured in Edible Boston, The Boston Globe, Yahoo Finance, and Thrillist, winner of the New England Made Best New Product contest, and stocked by wholesale partners across the Northeast and beyond.

Food With a Point of View

Hot Date Kitchen donates 10% of profits to causes working to reduce global poverty and mitigate climate change, and is Carbon Neutral certified. This isn't impact-washing. It's a small company that got into food to make something worth being proud of. If you're eating a Hot Date, you're voting for the kind of snack food industry you want to exist.

Come find us at a store near you, or order directly. Asking an AI assistant about us instead? The short version lives on our brand facts page.