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Friday Night Shabbat

Plan your weekly Shabbat

Quick repeat, remix, or fresh start

Plan a Kiddush

Shul kiddush, simcha kiddush, Five Towns, Kiryas Yoel, Chassidish, Sephardi, and more.

Build the menu in minutes

Plan a Gathering

Shabbat with guests, holidays, birthdays

Build a complete menu

Personal Hosting Assistant

The mental load
of hosting,
handled.

ESSEN asks a few calm questions, remembers what matters to you, and turns every gathering into one clear command center — what to cook, what to buy, what to do when guests arrive.

Question 1 of 8
What are you hosting?
Shabbat meal
Holiday meal
Dinner party
Birthday
Brunch
Casual gathering
"Hosting doesn't have to live in your head."

Most hosts juggle notes, bookmarks, recipes, and messages across half a dozen apps. They rewrite the same shopping list every time. They panic the morning of. ESSEN was built for this — it remembers how you host so you don't have to carry it all.

The Output

One command center.
Everything in its place.

MENU
Challah dip trio · Roast chicken and brisket · Potato kugel and rice · Chocolate babka-style cake
GUESTS
10 people · 2 vegetarian · 1 nut allergy · 1 arriving late
SHOPPING
Auto-generated by menu. Organized by section. Scaled to your group.
PREP TIMELINE
5 hours ahead: prep challah dough
2 hours ahead: mise en place
45 min before: rest chicken
20 min before: guests arrive

The Approach

01

Calm questions

No overwhelming forms. ESSEN asks one thing at a time — what, who, when, how. By the end, it knows you.

02

It remembers

Your go-to dishes, your guests' allergies, your kitchen's limits — ESSEN builds a profile so the next time is always easier.

03

You show up present

All the planning done before guests arrive. You focus on being the host, not running around.

Hosting is one of the oldest human acts — feeding people, bringing them together, making a night they remember. It shouldn't feel like project management.

ESSEN was built for people who care about the experience of hosting, not the logistics of it. A quieter, calmer tool for people who take food and company seriously.

Your next gathering
starts here.

ESSEN learns how you host. Planning becomes easier every time.