A trio of new sites opened today in Acton, Brent Cross and Dulwich, Deliveroo said. Restaurants to take up residence range from London independents to international chains. If you've ever come up against the phrase "dark kitchen" (also called ghost kitchens) you might know it's all about those delivery services for operators who don't actually have a physical restaurant.
These are kitchens sometimes housed in shipping container villages around London and aren't the most soul. If you've ordered a takeaway recently from the likes of Deliveroo or Uber Eats, there's a good chance it came directly from a "dark kitchen" - one of a growing number of delivery-only catering facilities typically tucked away inside a railway arch or at the back of an industrial estate. With an estimated 400-plus locations in the UK alone, serving a takeaway market worth about £17.
March 20, 2024 Approval has been given to a 12-storey cube shaped building in North Acton that will contain 260 'dark kitchens' making meals for online delivery services. The design by architects Dowen Farmer for the Dephna Group on Wales Farm Road was given the go ahead by the planning committee of the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) on 7 March. The first building of.
The 12-storey block at Portal Way in North Acton was unanimously approved by the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC)'s planning committee last Thursday (7 March). The development, for commercial kitchen rental company the Dephna Group, will house more than 250 kitchens in 10. Project client Dephna Group is a longstanding operator of dark kitchens, which serve customers by delivery or pick-up with no eat-in option.
Under the proposals drawn up by Dowen Farmer, Dephna's current three-storey base at Portal Way in North Acton would be demolished and redeveloped with a part-11, part-12 storey building with 17,846sq m. A visually striking huge cube shaped dark kitchen could be coming to Acton in west London, to sate the demand for food deliveries. A trio of new sites opened today in Acton, Brent Cross and Dulwich, Deliveroo said.
Restaurants to take up residence range from London independents to international chains, and include Dishoom, Five Guys, Chilango, Tao Tao Ju, Bleecker, Shake Shack, Pho and Rosa's Thai. Deliveroo launched its first delivery-only kitchens in 2016 and now has sites across the UK, including in London boroughs. Architecture firm Dowen Farmer is hoping to build Portal Way in North Acton If you're a regular Deliveroo or Uber Eats user, you're probably familiar with the term 'dark kitchen', which are basically restaurants without the dining room part that operate for delivery pickups only.
These dark kitchens are dotted all over the city, normally in pretty unassuming spaces, like railway arch. 12-storey Dark Kitchen Tower Planned for North Acton Building would contain 260 units with an estimated 1,200 staff A visualisation of the planned building on Wales Farm Road. Picture: Dowen Farmer Architects.
