Mission Kitchen is our unique shared kitchen space and coworking space for London’s small and ambitious food businesses. It’s somewhere, affordable, to come and make your amazing food. Bake, brew, smoke, temper, cure, pickle, dehydrate. Whatever you need to cook, however you need to cook, make it in our massive shared production kitchen with all the tools, equipment and help you need.
We are food.
Workspace, kitchen space and food culture venue.
Where food happens.
This is for everyone, for everything to do with food. A home for the makers, the photo takers and the hype creators. For the stylists, the flavour scientists and the story writers. It’s a place where you all belong. A permanent space for food to come together.
It’s where curious food minds create, innovate and collaborate. Where bold ideas are shared as freely as passing round the salad. Welcome to the most food-obsessed community in London. This is the Food Exchange. And this is where food happens.
Our Spaces
Across three floors, the Food Exchange brings together every possible flavour of food entrepreneur under one roof. It’s where delicious food is made, written about, learned, photographed and talked about. If you work in food, there’s a home for you here.
Mission Kitchen, Floor 1
Welcome to the biggest, most inspiring kitchen in London.
Private Studios, Floors 2 & 3
Give your team a unique workplace in the belly of London’s food scene.
On the top two floors are our light-filled, contemporary studios. The ideal place for any business working in food. Energise your team with an inspiring workplace and surround yourselves with other food innovators and thinkers. Share stories, swap contacts and meet new clients. All in the same building. Our private studios come in all shapes and sizes.
Food Education and Culture Venue
Let’s cook, learn and eat together.
The Food Exchange is a venue that celebrates food culture, history and education. Here you’ll find London’s most exciting cookery school for home-cooks and professionals. Drop in for classes, workshops, talks, tastings and exhibitions. We’ll also be home to the world’s largest recipe book library, sourdough starters from the world’s most iconic restaurants and an evolving food museum.
Got room for more?
Rooftops, growing space, beehives and meeting rooms.
Nowhere in London is more about food than here. On our roof spaces we’ll be keeping bees, growing herbs and vegetables, and farming micro fish. Get involved or simply relax and enjoy the fresh air. The café and bar on the first floor will have an ever-changing food and drink offer. And we’ve got all the essentials you’d expect in a workplace; meeting rooms, bike rack and showers.
Look Inside
Location
The Food Exchange is a creation of New Covent Garden Market. Your new neighbours are London’s greatest community of fresh food businesses. You are 10 minutes walk from Vauxhall station and you are about to join the biggest food story in London.
New Covent Garden Market
Sitting directly behind the Food Exchange is London’s iconic fruit, veg and flower wholesale market. New Covent Garden Market is home to 175 incredible food and flower businesses, from young start-ups to award-winning enterprises. We are the market that feeds London, supplying its great chefs, greengrocers and food shops. At the Food Exchange, you have London’s most inspirational fresh food market right on your doorstep.
Food Quarter
The Food Exchange is the first chapter in an even bigger food story. Here, we are creating London’s Food Quarter. That’s 37 acres of London dedicated to food. The Food Quarter will be a vibrant food industry campus and a serious food destination. A place for those who work in food and a place for those who simply love food. An evolution of New Covent Garden Market, it will be to food what Old Street is to tech. All built on the belief that great food is for everyone.
Nine Elms
New Covent Garden Market is one of the landmark sites in Nine Elms, London’s biggest transformation story. We’re next to Battersea Power Station and the new US Embassy. And we have two new tube stations arriving in 2021, one of them right on our doorstep. Nine Elms is already the home of 1,000 businesses from all sectors. Set to be one of the most productive commercial areas in the world, this is a flourishing community being made even better.
Food Exchange
New Covent Garden Market
London
SW8 5EL
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Our private studios on floors 2 & 3 are ready right now. If you’re a business working in food, we’d love to tell you more and show you around.