OUR STORY

The Kensington Commercial Kitchen is under the umbrella of parent company "Kensington Food Company"; which is owned and operated by a born and raised Kensington neighborhood native. As Kensington Food Company began to grow, Tom felt a need to start giving back to the community he grew up in and the community his company calls home. In order to do this, he reached out to a local non profit organization called "The Kensington Corridor Trust" and asked if he could volunteer or possibly join their Board of Directors. 

During their first meeting together, Tom shared his journey to that point as well as expansion plans for the future in the neighborhood. Part of those plans, tom explained, was to open a state of the art shared commercial kitchen space where local Philly Food Businesses and Culinary Entrepreneurs could grow their company and brand in an affordable space where they can feel safe and wanted. When Tom mentioned this, the entire Kensington Corridor Trust team lit up with excitement. It just so happened they literally THAT DAY just closed on a new property on Kensington Avenue and their exact vision for that space was a shared kitchen/grocery space that they saw done in West Philadelphia and they wanted to bring to Kensington. The synergy was unbelievable and the rest was history. 

The Kensington Commercial Kitchen is launching in Fall 2024 as Philadelphia's most affordable Shared Commercial Kitchen Space. Located in the heart of Kensington (Tioga Street and Kensington Ave), we will have space for a maximum of 20 Tenants that will consist of Food Trucks, Food Producers, Chefs, Caterers and more.