Food Ink™ - World's first 3D printing restaurant

Copyright © Françoise Herrmann

The restaurant Food Ink™, in London (UK,) lies at the intersection of 3D printing, art, and haute cuisine.  You will never recognize your guacamole, once Food Ink™ has printed it!  Take a peek at the stunning, mouth-watering design, and imagine what your breakfast waffles might look like!

Food Ink™ in London (UK) 3D prints everything -- the restaurant’s furniture, utensils, and the food.  Whether Food Ink™ is operating at home in London (UK), or popping up for a print-out at an international venue outside of the UK, Food Ink™ offers a futuristic, exploratory and multisensory 3D experience. Specifically, a Food Ink™  experience includes 3D printed food, right before your eyes; 3D Virtual Reality (VR) headsets for use in a projected VR environment; guests seated on 3D printed furniture, consuming their 3D printed meal with 3D printed utensils. The whole experience is brought to you by an international team of collaborating entrepreneurs, chefs, architects, and designers.

Aligned with SciFi author and engineer Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Food Ink™ believes that: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

The following YouTube video showcases magic at the Food Ink™ opening night, in London (UK).

Food Ink™ prints food at the table with Focus AM (Additive Manufacturing) 3D food printers, designed by the Dutch company byFlow. Additive manufacturing refers to the layering process used in 3D printing, vs. subtractive manufacturing where products are cut out of a larger block of material. Thus, one of the side benefits of 3D printed food, beyond the beautifully designed recipes, is that it also prevents waste, especially when top quality and otherwise visually unappealing food can be extruded.

References

Food Ink™ Restaurant

http://foodink.io/

Food Ink™ London

http://foodink.io/london/

byFlow

https://www.3dbyflow.com/home-en

Arthur C. Clarke

http://www.clarkefoundation.org/