Ngara Food Projects
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The Ngara Food Projects building on its street in Ngara, Nairobi: a pink and white facade with green doors, and neighbours at a stall under a yellow umbrella.
Ramesh Gautama Road, circa 2024

Commercial kitchen space, and more

Anchored in Ngara and helping shape the future of food work, Ngara Food Projects is a commercial kitchen for food businesses, training, collaboration, and community meals.

Good food for a good future.

We believe a kitchen can do more than produce food. It can build skills, support livelihoods, reduce waste, and help shape a better food system from the ground up.

What it is

Ngara Food Projects is a commercial kitchen for people and businesses that need professional space to cook, test, and grow their food work.

Who it supports

The kitchen supports food businesses at different stages: from early ideas and recipe testing to regular production, training, filming, and larger-scale preparation.

What people do here

Some people come to test a product. Some come to produce for customers. Others come to learn, teach, film, collaborate, or prepare food for community meals.

KOMÉ and Mama Zaza, members since 2025.

What Happens Here

Kitchen Space

Inside the kitchen: stainless steel prep counters, ranges, and extraction hoods under bright light.

Book professional kitchen space for hourly sessions, full-day production, filming, training, events, or monthly membership.

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Food Business Incubation

Labelled tubs of cookie dough lined up on the prep counter, each marked with its recipe and date.

For food businesses that want support beyond kitchen space: help with the work behind production — testing, planning, food safety, sourcing, costing, and waste reduction.

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Social impactWorkforce Development

Trays of freshly baked cookies stacked in a cooling rack.

Hands-on culinary training and supervised kitchen experience that build skills, standards, confidence, and pathways into food work.

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Social impactCommunity Food Assistance

A table of baked goods on parchment: cookies, iced lemon loaves, and banana bread ready to share.

Meals prepared and served in response to community food needs, with hospitality, respect, and dignity.

Volunteer or partner

A steady place in a neighbourhood that never stops moving.

Ngara is matatus and market stalls, families and businesses, old buildings and new plans. Ngara Food Projects sits in the middle of it: a working kitchen where food businesses produce, people learn through food work, and community meals are prepared with dignity.

The kitchen's black double doors with round porthole windows, set in a raw concrete wall.
Ngara Food Projects • Ngara, Nairobi

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Book the kitchen, visit the space, or enquire about working with Ngara Food Projects.