3D printer restaurant

LONDON | Food Ink.

The world’s first 3D-printing restaurant opens its doors to an exclusive group of guests on three consecutive evenings at

8 Dray Walk in Shoreditch.

By now you’ve heard of 3D-printing, but did you know that you could soon be downloading dessert and getting that pizza delivered by email?

Presenting Food Ink – The World’s First 3D-Printing Restaurant.

At our utterly unique and fully interactive “print-out pop-ups,” all the furniture, all the utensils — and yes, all the food! — is produced through live 3D-printing.

Our official world premiere takes place this July 25-26-27 at 8 Dray Walk in Shoreditch, in the heart of London’s creative and high-tech epicentre.

On Tuesday 26 July and Wednesday 27 July from 2 PM – 6 PM, Food Ink is open to the public to come sample 3D-printed snacks, get hands-on with our 3D-printers and 3D-pens, relax on our 3D-printed furniture, and explore our exciting futuristic environment.

On Monday 25 July, Tuesday 26 July, and Wednesday 27 July, we host an exclusive gathering of 10 dinner guests who will join us at our 3D-printed dinner table at 8 PM to share the world’s most futuristic gourmet experience.

Our dinner guests will be treated to a one-of-a-kind, nine-course food experience prepared by top chefs Joel Castanye and Mateu Blanch, and produced via live real-time 3D-printing right in front of our guests’ eyes. Chef Castanye runs one of Spain’s most acclaimed new restaurants, La Boscana, and he worked previously for many years at the legendary elBulli when it was ranked the number one restaurant in the world for a record five times.

The event is also livestreamed online to the world, so even those unable to secure a seat at the table can still marvel at the tasty creations being magically 3D-printed right before their eyes.

Our Founding Partner is byFlow, the inventor of the world’s first portable multi-material 3D-printer.

Our tables, chairs and lamps are some of the world’s first functional 3D-printed furniture, created specifically for our restaurant by Zaha Hadid’s former protégé Arthur Mamou-Mani and unveiled for the first time on our opening night.

Our guests will be also dining with fully 3D-printed utensils custom-designed for us by Polish artist Iwona Lisiecka and 3D-printed by BCN3D Technologies. Drinks and treats are sipped and scooped from 3D-printed cups and plates 3D-printed by WASPVirtual reality headsets, wall-to-wall visual projections and AI-composed music together provide an immersive environment and a thrilling glimpse of the future.

This is the first time in the world that any initiative involving 3D-printed food has ever been executed with so many elements and anywhere approaching this level, and it represents a major step forward in technology, food, and design, all in a single event.

The goal of Food Ink is to use the universal language of food as a fun and accessible way to promote awareness about the amazing possibilities of 3D-printing and other promising new technologies. Our 3D-printing dinner series serve as a platform for a public conversation about how these emerging technologies are rapidly challenging and changing the way we eat, create, share and live.

Food Ink is a completely new type of theme restaurant and an innovative food technology brand created by Antony Dobrzensky. Our London launch is only the beginning and we are soon bringing this extraordinary new restaurant format to a number of other innovative cities around the world.

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GALLERY | Food Ink.

Food Ink at YOURS Restaurant, Barcelona, Spain

In December 2016 we collaborated with YOURS Restaurant in Barcelona to present the world’s only fully 3D-printed dinner experience. We were honoured to 3D-print a personalized 12-course dinner for some very special guests including International popstar Shakira and supermodel-yogi Vanesa Lorenzo alongside legendary footballers Gerard Pique and Carles Puyol!

Food Ink at La Boscana, Lleida, Spain

In November 2016 we collaborated with Michelin-star La Boscana restaurant (Lleida, Spain) to present Spain’s first ever fully 3D-printed dinner. Buen provecho!

Food Ink in London, United Kingdom

At Food Ink we create edible art prepared by the finest chefs with fresh natural ingredients and 3D-printed live using the revolutionary byFlow Focus 3D-printer. Our international launch is in London this Summer 2016 and we will be coming soon to a city near you.

Food Ink at Villa Flora, Venlo, The Netherlands

Our 3D-printing pop-up restaurant in the Netherlands was a tremendous success! We have been receiving many positive emails from our guests as well as curious onlookers who gathered for the April 12th event at the beautiful new Villa Flora in Venlo, the Netherlands.

An eclectic eight-course dinner was 3D-printed and served using our remarkable byFlow Focus 3D-Printers, prepared with fresh natural ingredients and borrowing innovative multi-sensory techniques from the world of molecular gastronomy.

We were honoured to present this utterly unique and world-class gourmet experience in collaboration with some of Europe’s best chefs, including the legendary Joel Castanye. Chef Castanye currently runs the incredible La Boscana restaurant in Lleida, Spain, and previously worked with elBulli when it was the world’s number one ranked restaurant.

Menu concept and dishes were developed by founding partner 3D Samba.

Dinner began at sunset and as it grew dark outside, our guests toasted champagne served in test tubes, tried on exclusive 3D-printed jewelry gifts from Diaz London, and basked in the glow of our 3D-printed lamps from Mamou-Mani.

Introducing the Food Ink 3D-Printed Cutlery Series

Designed by talented Polish artist Iwona Lisiecka and 3D-printed by Barcelona-based BCN3D Technologies on their incredible Sigma machines. We’re here to get you through dinner in style. And if you don’t feel like doing the dishes, we’ll just print you some more. 😉

Don’t take a seat, make a seat!

At Food Ink – The World’s First 3D-Printing Restaurant, you don’t just “take a seat” — you make it! Presenting the exclusive world premiere of The Smoke Stool, custom designed by visionary architect Arthur Mamou-Mani. 3D-printed, laser-cut and assembled by Mamou-Mani Ltd. and FabPub on Hackney Road in London, UK.

Bits and Bytes

Come try our “Fish and Chips:” super-healthy toasted seaweed with computer-chip circuit patterns 3D-printed out of kimchi fish mayonnaise and with just enough kick of wasabi. An iconic British dish reinvented for the digital generation and naturally part of our London menu.

Meet the best 3D-printing chefs in the world

When you’re doing the world’s first, you need the world’s best. We work with only the finest chefs to bring you not only the most futuristic food but also the most exquisitely delicious.

We are thrilled and honoured to collaborate with Chefs Joel Castanye and Mateu Blanch of La Boscana, one of Spain’s best restaurants and one of the most innovative centres for new concepts in gastronomy.

Chef Castanye worked previously at the legendary elBulli when it was ranked the number one restaurant in the world for a record five times. He loves our 3D-printers and we love his food, so it’s a match made in foodie-geek heaven!
The future is here. And it tastes awesome.

The Future Looks Bright

Just another Friday night building and testing our original 3D-printed furniture here at Food Ink – The World’s First 3D-Printing Restaurant. Our table comfortably seats 10, so bring your friends!

“In Moscow, you can already try squid made on a 3D printer” – The City, 07/14/2021

In “The City. We're talking," restaurateur Dmitry Levitsky spoke about the food of the future, why robots are replacing waiters, and where Russian cuisine has disappeared (not to be confused with Soviet cuisine).

Food from a 3D printer

The technology of printing food on a 3D printer appeared with us not so long ago. Although we saw her at an exhibition in the USA two or three years ago. It all started with a confectionery, but now in one of the restaurants in Moscow you can try squid, which is made on a 3D printer, and it cannot be distinguished from the one that lived in the sea and was specially caught. But this, of course, is a technology of a very distant future, when humanity will face a shortage of squid for all the inhabitants of the world.

Robot in the kitchen

Video: Robo Hunter/YouTube

A robot instead of a cook or a waiter is a real future. Now there are already fast food chains where work is organized completely automatically. A person comes, orders, a robotic system makes fried wings and gives them out. Many people go to this. Cafes will become such big automatic feeders. But there will always be places where you can get emotions, communication, mood and dialogue. One cannot replace the other.

Artificial intelligence instead of people

There will come a time when being served by a person in any service sector will become the privilege of rich people. For example, if a person is poor, then his children will be taught by robots, and wealthy people will be able to afford a human teacher. Probably the same will happen with restaurants.

Struggle for the consumer

Does the person who orders home delivery take a piece of bread from restaurants or shops? Surveys show that delivery is now more competitive with going to the store. Delivery discourages people from cooking at home, but not going to restaurants.

Is delivery always good?

A very limited set of dishes is suitable for delivery. The dish dies within three to five minutes on distribution. And when it travels for 40 minutes in boxes - sometimes in the heat, sometimes in the cold - it is very doubtful that it will arrive in the best possible way. Lettuce flows, pasta boils in a thermobox, a medium-roasted steak cannot be eaten when cooled down. Even sushi, which is very popular in delivery, should be served with warm rice. When it cools, it sticks together into a lump. For delivery, you need a completely different menu, which the chef immediately comes up with not on a plate, but in a box.

Moscow street food

Street food in Moscow is getting better and more varied. If earlier it was entirely associated with large international burger-chicken companies or some incomprehensible shawarma, now there is enough street food. Muscovites no longer face the question of where to go for a bite to eat.

The evolution of Moscow gastronomy

I started in the restaurant business a long time ago, in those days the city was a collection of network concepts. You walked along any street, and there were sure to be "Chocolate Girl", Il Patio, "Coffee House". Then they were replaced by brighter and more individual projects. Following this, a beloved small business began to develop. The city was filled with many different points with very simple and understandable food. This is the same case when three friends organized, chipped in and opened some kind of coffee shop or burger. In such stories, a lot of different food is born. Street food markets, gastroclusters, markets where beginners can try themselves have become a great help to this.

Russian folk food

We have a very complicated history with Russian cuisine. You can hardly find restaurants with it in Moscow. There are maybe five restaurants that deal with our national cuisine purposefully. Many chefs and restaurateurs are now puzzled by this question. If you come to Spain, then paella is everywhere and everyone eats it. You come to Italy - pizzerias at every turn. The main cuisine in the country is the local cuisine.

Who killed Russian cuisine

Soviet cuisine killed Russian. “The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food” was published at a time when there were no products in the country and our entire cuisine was reduced to vinaigrettes, olivier - many dishes seasoned with mayonnaise. These traditions arose from hunger, from the lack of quality products. We confuse two concepts - Russian and Soviet. Before the revolution, we were a very gastronomic country. We brought the French, they cooked our dishes. Our turnip has been reimagined with French influence. But ordinary people traditionally ate "shchi and porridge - our food." Food 100 years ago was as simple as possible, and it’s not a fact that a modern person would like it. Modern chefs are now rethinking Russian cuisine, but it is still far from street food.

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Julia Krasilnikova July 13, 2016

In the Dutch city of Venlo, the first restaurant with food from a 3D printer has opened. At FOOD INK, food is printed from all ingredients with a creamy texture, from pizza dough to cream cheese and chocolate mousse. The company promises to produce not only dishes, but also furniture, cutlery and decor items, reports Inhabitat. At the end of July, the restaurant will go on tour around the world with the presentation of a multi-course dinner.

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FOOD INK uses technology from byFlow, which has developed a portable 3D printer that can print from various materials. Any edible ingredient with a soft, creamy texture can be loaded into the device, such as chocolate mousse, pizza dough, hummus or cheese. The paste-like mixture is loaded into a container resembling a syringe in shape. The container heats up and a thin layer of edible "ink" is squeezed out of the container. Layer by layer, a three-dimensional object is formed that can be served to the table.

3D food printer prints everything from spaghetti to pizza

Ideas

At FOOD INK, the futuristic food production process takes place not in the kitchen, but in front of the customers. So the company wants to demonstrate the possibilities of 3D printing using the universal language of cooking. The restaurant also notes that the production of products on a 3D printer allows you to save ingredients and produce less excess food.

The restaurant project of the future was presented at the 3D food printing conference in the Dutch city of Venlo. At the end of July, FOOD INK will go on a gastronomic tour around the world, and the first dinner of 9will present dishes printed on a printer in London. In the second half of the year, the establishment will host dinner parties in Dubai, Seoul, Paris, Las Vegas, Taipei and other cities. You can watch the process of printing culinary delights in real time on the project website.

FOOD INK

Natural Machines previously introduced the Foodini Universal 3D Food Printer, which can print everything from burgers to pizza.