Best WordPress Themes for Recipes

15 themes compared · Updated August 2026 · Recipes

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Choosing a WordPress theme for recipes comes down to a few things: whether it is still actively maintained, whether real users rate it well, and whether it does the specific job you need without dragging the rest of the site down.

We ranked 15 themes using our WPScore, which weighs the user rating (adjusted for how many people actually rated it), how many sites run it, how recently it was updated, and which WordPress version it is tested against. 15 of them have enough public data to be scored; the rest are listed below the ranked block, clearly marked, rather than being given a number we cannot justify.

How this list is funded. Some links here earn us a commission if you buy. It costs you nothing extra, and it does not move anything up the list — the order comes from the WPScore, which is calculated from public ratings, install counts and update history. See the method.

At a glance

1. Restaurant Recipe Best overall 76/100
2. Yummy Recipe 74/100
3. Blossom Recipe 74/100
4. Foodica 73/100
5. Yummy Bites 73/100
6. Cookery Lite 72/100
7. Spicy Recipe 71/100
8. Food Recipes 71/100
9. Elegant Recipe Blog 71/100
10. Auberge 70/100
11. Recipes Blog 70/100
12. Food Blog FSE 65/100
13. FSE Foodie Blog 64/100
14. Cook Recipe 63/100
15. Food Critic Blogs 63/100

Best overall Free by Acme Themes

Restaurant Recipe

Restaurant Recipe is a beautiful and highly responsive WordPress theme designed and developed primarily for a restaurant, cafeteria, coffee shop, bakery, sushi bars, barbecues, bars, cuisine...

4.9★: from 12 ratings
1k+: active installs
Updated: Jul 2026

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Free by Blossom Themes

Yummy Recipe

Yummy Recipe is a perfect theme for creating a professional food blog and recipe website. The theme is mobile-friendly, SEO optimized, Schema friendly, and loads faster to help you rank your...

5★: from 4 ratings
2k+: active installs
Updated: Apr 2026

WPScore

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Free by Blossom Themes

Blossom Recipe

Blossom Recipe is a beautifully designed, feature-rich and fully responsive free WordPress theme to help you create yummy delicious food and recipe blogs. This theme can be a suitable choice...

5★: from 11 ratings
1k+: active installs
Updated: Apr 2026

WPScore

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Free by WPZOOM

Foodica

Foodica is a clean and modern WordPress theme designed for food blogs, recipe websites, and culinary magazines. With a beautiful featured slider, well-structured layouts, and built-in WooCom...

5★: from 21 ratings
2k+: active installs
Updated: Feb 2026

WPScore

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Free by WP Delicious

Yummy Bites

Yummy Bites is a free WordPress recipe theme for creating a professional food blog and recipe website. This theme is designed to improve your recipe rankings on search engines with mobile-fr...

5★: from 3 ratings
700+: active installs
Updated: May 2026

WPScore

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Free by Blossom Themes

Cookery Lite

Cookery Lite is a lead generating recipe and food WordPress theme with multiple Call-to-Action (CTA) to capture leads. Beside food blog, you can also use this theme for creating different ty...

5★: from 2 ratings
500+: active installs
Updated: Apr 2026

WPScore

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Free by Blossom Themes

Spicy Recipe

Spicy Recipe is a perfect theme for creating a professional food blog and recipe website. The theme is mobile-friendly, SEO optimized, Schema friendly, and loads fast to help you rank your r...

5★: from 1 ratings
300+: active installs
Updated: Apr 2026

WPScore

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Free by FasterThemes

Food Recipes

Food Recipes is an editorial-magazine WordPress theme for food bloggers and recipe websites. Features a luxury Cormorant Garamond display typography paired with Jost sans-serif, an asymmetri...

5★: from 3 ratings
200+: active installs
Updated: May 2026

WPScore

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Free by elegantblgthemes

Elegant Recipe Blog

Elegant Recipe Blog is the best WordPress theme for Food Blog, Magazine or Recipe Website. Elegant Recipe Blog takes a clean and minimalist approach to Food Blog. The theme is integrated wit...

5★: from 2 ratings
100+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026

WPScore

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Free by WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas

Auberge

Auberge is responsive, retina-ready, modern restaurant & café & recipes blog WordPress theme. Supports Beaver Builder page builder plugin, Jetpack plugin to create nested food menus,...

4.7★: from 14 ratings
1k+: active installs
Updated: Sep 2025

WPScore

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Free by astertheme

Recipes Blog

Recipes Blog serves as a digital culinary canvas crafted for food lovers, home chefs, culinary experts, and those with a passion for the art of cooking. This meticulously designed platform i...

1★: from 1 ratings
100+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026

WPScore

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Free by DesignOrbital

Food Blog FSE

Crafted For Foodies. Food Blog FSE – Free Food Blog & Recipe WordPress Theme is a perfect choice for any personal blog or magazine. Designed with clean and minimal blocks, it helps blogg...

300+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026

WPScore

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Free by Creta Themes

FSE Foodie Blog

FSE Foodie Blog is a captivating and feature-rich website template designed specifically for food bloggers, food blog, culinary blog, gourmet recipes, food reviews, restaurant reviews, cooki...

200+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026

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Free by Blossom Themes

Cook Recipe

Cook Recipe is a perfect theme for creating professional food and recipe websites with multiple Call-to-Action (CTA) to capture leads. Beside food blogs, this theme can be used for creating...

200+: active installs
Updated: Apr 2026

WPScore

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Free by drakearthur

Food Critic Blogs

The Food Critic Blogs Theme is a premium solution designed for food bloggers, restaurant critics, culinary influencers, recipe creators, baking enthusiasts, gourmet chefs, food photographers...

100+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026

WPScore

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