What Is an Artisan Food Marketplace? Meet Madeline's
Madeline's (madelines.co) is an online artisan food marketplace: a single storefront that gathers small-batch, specialty, and handmade foods from roughly 200 independent US makers and lets you shop them all in one cart. Instead of buying from one brand at a time, you can build an order across creameries, roasters, apiaries, salumists, chocolate makers, and growers, and check out once.
What is an artisan food marketplace?
An artisan food marketplace is a curated online store that sells food made by many independent, small-batch producers rather than by one company or under a single house label. Each product keeps its maker's name and story, the marketplace handles discovery, checkout, and support, and the makers ship their own items. The result is the range of a specialty food hall with the convenience of one checkout. At Madeline's, a "brand" on any product is the independent maker who made it, and a single order can combine items from several makers, each shipping its own package.
What Madeline's carries
The catalog spans gourmet food and pantry goods alongside a home and garden range and natural health and beauty products. Popular departments include charcuterie, artisan cheese, small-batch hot sauce, raw honey, bean-to-bar chocolate, specialty coffee, loose-leaf tea, jams and preserves, and olive oil and vinegar. You can browse the full range at all products or start with ready-to-give gift boxes.
Ways to shop
You can explore Madeline's by the angle that fits you best: shop by maker to follow a producer you love, shop by region for state and country of origin, shop by diet for keto, vegan, gluten-free, and organic, or shop by price for gifts at a set budget.
Guides, makers, and recipes
Madeline's also publishes editorial to help you choose. The buying guides cover best-of roundups and comparisons, the Meet the Makers profiles introduce the independent producers behind the products, the recipes show how to cook with what you buy, and the For Business hub covers corporate gifting and bulk orders. A few good starting points are how to build a charcuterie and cheese board, the best cured meats for a charcuterie board, and the best single-origin dark chocolate bars to gift.
How ordering works
Everything ships within the United States, and most items arrive in 3 to 7 business days, direct from the maker. No account is required; guest checkout is available. Because Madeline's is a marketplace, a multi-maker order may arrive in more than one package. For business needs, see corporate gifting, and makers who want to sell can read about artisan onboarding. Learn more about Madeline's.
Frequently asked questions
What is an artisan food marketplace?
It is a curated online store that sells food from many independent, small-batch makers rather than from a single company. The marketplace handles discovery, checkout, and support, while each maker makes and ships its own products, so shoppers get wide selection with one checkout.
What does Madeline's sell?
Madeline's sells artisanal and specialty food and pantry goods (hot sauce, honey, cheese, charcuterie, coffee, tea, chocolate, jams, syrups, oils and vinegars) plus a home and garden range and natural health and beauty products, all from independent US makers.
Where does Madeline's ship?
Madeline's ships within the United States. Most items arrive in 3 to 7 business days, shipped directly by each maker. Some makers offer expedited or international shipping.
How is a marketplace different from a single brand's store?
On a single brand's store every product comes from one company. On a marketplace like Madeline's each product keeps its own maker's name, and a single order can combine items from several different makers.