For nearly 50 years we have been helping restaurateurs surpass their ambitions by providing the best possible kitchen in whatever space we are presented with. Our aim is to make every space work to its maximum potential whether updating an existing kitchen or starting from scratch. No matter what the cuisine, no matter what the scale, we’ll give you the tools to bring your creations to life and the ongoing support that keeps you cooking.
Inspired to invent
We understand that your restaurant starts with your creativity – cooking your best food for your customers. Our passion is providing you with the engine room in which to accomplish this – an amazing restaurant kitchen designed exclusively to bring your creations to life.
We love the inexhaustive innovation that fuels the restaurant industry. We keep a finger permanently on the pulse of restaurant kitchen evolution and never tire of new food concepts and cuisines and the cooking processes attached to them. We’re constantly speaking with restaurateurs and chefs about the latest food styles being championed, which cooking methods are trending and what’s new in technology and equipment.
WE HAVE BEEN DESIGNING RESTAURANT KITCHENS FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS
WE’VE ENCOUNTERED EVERY THEME, EVERY CUISINE AND EVERY STYLE
EVERY NEW PROJECT THRILLS US, EVERY NEW COOKING TREND INSPIRES US
WE’RE AS PASSIONATE ABOUT KITCHENS AS YOU ARE ABOUT COOKING
A BUSTLING AND WELL-DISCIPLINED KITCHEN IS AT THE HEART OF EVERY THRIVING RESTAURANT AND OVER THE YEARS WE’VE TRULY LEARNED WHAT DRIVES A GREAT OPERATION.
LET’S TALK ABOUT DESIGN
Every brilliant restaurant kitchen starts life as a brilliant design. Our design studio is in many ways the engine room of our company. The way your kitchen functions, the way your chefs work, the way you store, cook, serve, wash and clean-down are all addressed through the intense work of our design team.
The essence of restaurant kitchen design is paying attention to the subtlest details and challenging the most trivial-seeming decisions. Beyond that, it’s knowing when to push forward and when to be restrained. Good design may begin with putting the right appliances in the right places, but great design has an intangible quality that goes far beyond the equipment itself.
Our approach to kitchen design is holistic. We fully engage with your ideas and methods of working and align our vision with your own. Without this process, your drawing is no more than a sheet of paper and your kitchen can never be more than the sum of its parts.
There is never a square centimetre we won’t have considered in our layout. In the simplest sense, if you’re going to need it we’ll include it and – if you don’t – we won’t! Exceptional design runs through our DNA and this is one reason why hundreds of successful restaurant kitchens started life on our humble drawing board.
Ollie Dabbous
Chef And Restaurateur - Hide, Dabbous.
I’ve worked with Nelson Catering for many years now, since the installation of my very first restaurant kitchen at Dabbous. They offer incredible customer service and knowledgeable advice; very simply, nothing is too much effort. They even helped me arrange the finance for my first restaurant kitchen. I can’t recommend them highly enough.
GOOD DESIGN IS EVERYTHING
Having discussed your brief in detail and gained a clear understanding of your vision, we task our design team to consider every possible configuration. Of course, we make sure that every ‘i’ is dotted and every ‘t’ crossed before we’re ready to present to you, but it doesn’t end there. Our initial layouts showcase our interpretation of your ideas.
We’ll carefully walk you through our proposed designs and encourage you to provide detailed feedback and, from there we can evolve and amend the layout as many times as necessary. This two-way process is crucial because your comments and reactions are invaluable and enable us to arrive at the seamless intersection of our knowledge and your unique concept. The end result is a final kitchen design that is a perfect representation of your ambitions.
WE ALWAYS WANT TO SEE YOUR VENTURE FROM YOUR VIEWPOINT AS WELL AS OUR OWN SO, AT EVERY STAGE OF THE KITCHEN DESIGN PROCESS, WE LISTEN, OBSERVE AND EMPATHISE TO GAIN THE CLEAREST POSSIBLE INSIGHT INTO YOUR VISION
RESTAURANT ESSENTIALS
We believe that every restaurant kitchen we work on makes us stronger because we learn something from every single one. We have worked with 1000s of chefs over the years and we listen closely to what they tell us they need. Invariably, these FOUR MUST-HAVES arise during every conversation:
SPECIFIED WITH
YOUR FUTURE IN MIND
We have an independent, impartial and unbiased approach to selecting kitchen equipment for our design projects. After spending nearly 50 years in the industry, we have forged the strongest relationships with the principal equipment manufacturers from the UK, Europe and beyond. This covers everything from the simplest table top appliances, to bespoke, high-end cooking suites.
When your venture hits the road running, there is nothing worse than the joy of success being hampered by the frustrations of being under-resourced. Time has taught us that goalposts can change – menus change, the way you buy-in food can change and the methods in which you cook and serve can change. That is why we stay one step ahead and design your kitchen dynamically, with solutions for your future dilemmas in mind.
TICKING EVERY BOX
Robin Gill
Chef And Restaurateur - Darby's, Sorella
With Nelson, it feels like you’re working with a small, family run business – but with global scale professionalism! They’ve helped me with designs from modest to, frankly, grand restaurant kitchens and they work meticulously to get the best outcome. They respond fast, follow up every call and never miss a detail.
WE KNOW THAT EVERYONE’S BUDGET, MENUS, NUMBER OF COVERS AND SPATIAL FOOTPRINT ARE DIFFERENT AND THAT’S WHY NO TWO KITCHENS WILL EVER BE THE SAME.
Sam Harrison
Restaurateur - Sams Riverside.
Sam’s Riverside is much bigger and more high profile than my previous restaurants and getting it ready involved a lot of contractors and expenditure. I already knew and trusted Nelson and, when we started work on the design for the restaurant kitchen, they totally looked out for me and gave me the confidence I needed to make the right decisions.
OUR RESTAURANT PORTFOLIO
We’ve worked with many restaurants over the years, always finding solutions to problems and delivering on the brief and the budget. Below are just a few of the restaurants who we have helped begin their journey…
Restaurant Story
Chick ‘N’ Sours
Tank & Padde
Sorella
Please get in touch with us
Whether you’re in the earliest stages of planning or you have a site that’s ready to go, it’s never too early to involve us. We can advise and assist you at every stage so let’s start the conversation today.
