OUR KITCHEN ON WEST MAIN

Come on in.

Warm lights, wooden benches and a good meal waiting. Our little kitchen is a place to catch up with a friend, take a lunch break or settle in over a bowl of K ramen.

Find us on West Main

Wooden benches, tables and warm pendant lights inside Box’d Kitchen on West Main Street — A place to sit, eat and stay a little.

The dining room at Box’d Kitchen, looking toward the kitchen and ordering counter — From our counter to your table.

909 W Main StCharlottesville, Virginia

Individually prepared rice boxes with protein, salad, housemade sauces and pita at the Box’d Kitchen counter — Prepared in our kitchen, for your gathering.

CATERING WITH CARE

Good food.
For all your people.

Team meals, office lunches and campus gatherings. We prepare individually packaged rice boxes with seasoned basmati rice, salad, your choice of protein, housemade sauces and pita.

We’ve catered for UVA Health for five years and regularly prepare meals for UVA sports teams. Tell us who you’re feeding, and we’ll help you plan the food.

Plan your catering

LOCALLY OWNED. MOTHER-OWNED.

Meet Nayoung Yum.
A mom. A neighbor.
Your kitchen.

Behind Box’d Kitchen is Nayoung Yum, a mom to twins and the owner of your neighborhood kitchen in Charlottesville.

Her twins are a son and a daughter, and one is a student at UVA. For Nayoung, the university community is part of the family.

That care reaches the people behind the counter, too. Many of our team members are UVA students. We make room for classes, exams and the next big step.

In your corner.
In more ways than one.

Nayoung Yum · Owner of Box’d Kitchen

We want to be a place that supports UVA students, through the busy days and the big changes.

Many of the people behind our counter are UVA students. Classes, exams and breaks come first, and we work with them to make room for both school and work. They bring their ideas and experiences into our kitchen. We learn from them, too.

I’m a mother of twins, a son and a daughter, and one of my children is a student at UVA. I see something of my own family in the students around us. Preparing meals for them feels especially close to home.

When we put a team meal together, I think about what I would want my own child to eat. Protein, vegetables and basmati rice, with care in the way it all comes together.

THE MOMENTS THAT STAY

Some stories
come back through the door.

Two moments our owner
still thinks about.

AFTER GRADUATION

A familiar face,
a new chapter.

A former UVA student who worked at our counter came back to Charlottesville after graduating and starting his career. This time, he brought his girlfriend to the kitchen he remembered.

A LITTLE TASTE OF HOME

Missed from
another state.

A longtime regular, a high-school athlete who left for college in another state, told us that our food was what he missed most. Small words that meant so much to us.

Stories shared by our owner. Names and personal details are kept private.

WITH GRATITUDE

“Let’s go back
to Box’d Kitchen.”

That’s the kind of place we hope to be. Somewhere that holds a little piece of your college years: a meal after practice, a shift behind the counter, a pause between exams, time with a friend.

This community has given us so much encouragement. We want to give that care back, in the food we make, the students we work alongside and the people we welcome.

We’ll be here on West Main