Our Story

Some of the best discoveries start with someone saying you need to try it.

The text that started it

This is what I’ve been doing with the lion’s mane I buy from you. You have to try it.

For years I grew mushrooms, processed them, and sold them to the same customers every week. One of those longtime customers kept telling me what he was making with the lion’s mane he bought from me. Then one day he texted me a photo of it, with a simple message: this is what I’ve been doing with them, you have to try it.

A week later, I finally did. I took a lion’s mane, smashed it flat in a hot pan, and cooked it bare. No marinade. No seasoning. Nothing. I wanted to know what it actually was before I dressed it up. I figured it would be a fun thing to try and not much more.

I was wrong.

The crust got my attention. The texture kept it.

Thirteen years in professional kitchens, and I had never cooked anything quite like it. Not a meat substitute. Not a trend. Just a lion’s mane doing something I never saw coming.

So I went back to the pan and made another. This time with red wine. That was the start of our mushroom steak line, and I haven’t stopped thinking about what this ingredient can do since.

That moment in the pan changed what I thought was possible with a mushroom. It didn’t change how I already believed food should be made.

Grounded Mushrooms has always run on one standard: make it from scratch, use real ingredients, and never cut a corner that ends up on your plate. Every marinade is made in house from whole foods. We used to buy seasoning blends and soup base like everyone else. Not anymore. It isn’t the easy way. It’s the way that shows up every time you take a bite.

Fresh tastes better. It always has.

Food loaded with preservatives to stretch a shelf life was never built with flavor in mind, or with you in mind.

That’s the standard for everything that leaves our kitchen. Not because it makes a good story. Because it makes better food.

If you’ve already tried a steak at a market or a festival, you know. That’s not an accident. That’s what happens when food is worth paying attention to. And if you’re here before your first bite, you’re about to find out what the fuss is about.

Either way, you’re in the right place. This is food made by someone who refuses to settle, for people who feel the same way.

Welcome to Grounded Mushrooms.