Food Startups London
London’s eating scene has some great examples of passionate hard working food & drink entrepreneurs like the founder of Gousto and other food innovators around the world and has been (Corona update…was….) thriving for some time and there’s no doubt there has been a new, long and brilliant revolution in culinary options in the UK with the capital leading the charge.
In fact, it’s come so far that there’s even a not so new argument that London is the best city in the world for dining out which is based in some fact.
So, with that in mind we look at some of the new entrepreneurs and London scaleups entering the scene and some evidence of community support to help them shake up how we engage and eat in the capital.
Food Startups London – Best Food Startups UK Guide
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Food & Drink Startups UK
Butternut Box
Your dog’s box is portioned to your dog based on their individual dietary requirements reducing food waste
Buternut Box‘s small new industry service will take all the time hassle away by pre-portioning meals into daily production servings as part of their delivery service – just open, serve and set their tails to “wag”.
Butternut Box‘s nutritional consultation is based on and takes into account the age, weight, breed, body condition and activity level of your dog to help them create your unique meal plan.
City Pantry (now Just Eat)
City Pantry‘s new based in London delivery startup service serves up glorious grub from hundreds of food industry to small kitchen to top restaurants across the UK to your company if based in London.
From meeting canapes (and better!) and team or company lunches to work events and more all through the days of the week and for this reason, deserves to be in our food startups london guide.
EatFirst
EatFirst was created by Benn Hodges as an antidote to the mass-produced meals on offer to time-poor foodies looking for high-quality wholesome meals at home or work.
Coming from a Michelin starred restaurant background, Benn and his team use high-end cooking techniques and ethically sourced ingredients to create healthy, fresh guilt-free meals.
The Great Taste Award-winning kitchens of chef Benn Hodges are open to everyone in the UK with a brand new nationwide delivery service.
Aimed at discerning foodies looking for healthy alternatives to takeaway, the new eatfirst.com store offers restaurant quality ready meals and fine wines with fast on-demand and overnight chilled delivery.
Feast it (now Together)
Choose from 1000+ handpicked street food caterers, mobile bars, florists, photographers, marquees, staff and more.
Tell Feast it about your event and the types of suppliers you’re looking for.
You’ll be assigned a personal Event Pro who will get to work finding the perfect suppliers for your event and will be on hand every step of the way, from submitting your enquiry until after your event.
Gousto
With Gousto you can choose from 40 recipes a week: meat, fish and vegetarian. That’s more than other recipe boxes. Choose the recipes you want, the day of the week you want them delivered, and how many servings.
Exceptionally high quality ingredients, superb meat, great big portions. No waste – one of the best bits – and a significant saving on our weekly food bill. Super excited when the box arrives each week!
Rachel, Leeds
Graze
Graze who are based in London believe the healthy choice shouldn’t be a compromise on taste!
We’ve found that using the best ingredients nature has to offer makes the best snacks, and we’ve got many delicious, wholesome creations for you to look forward to.
Imagine having taste experts on hand to select snacks for you!
With a graze subscription you’ll do exactly that, all you have to do is tell us what you like and we’ll tailor the flavours of each box to suit you so they’ve booked their place in our best food startups london for this reason.
KaraKuri
Karakuri’s automation systems makes choice and meal personalization a reality for every diner, regardless of price point. Detailed data logging of the quantities and qualities of foods used in each meal ensure each restaurant delivers unique, high quality dishes on time, every time.
Many of the daily tasks performed in food production are boring, repetitive, and time-consuming.
Karakuri’s robots can carry out these tasks quickly and consistently, alleviating staff members from high volume manual jobs and enabling them to spend more time with customers, and on higher value, more creative roles.
By automating certain tasks, Karakuri’s systems empower businesses to create a more fulfilling working environment, helping to improve employee welfare and job satisfaction, while increasing productivity and staff retention.
Karma Kitchen
Karma Kitchen is transforming industrial spaces into beautiful commercial kitchens, co-working and storage.
Karma Kitchen build, equip and manage the spaces, with everything from kitchen porters, community managers to top of the range equipment with the goal is to provide workspace that encompasses the full needs of a food and drink business.
The team behind Karma Kitchen are the same team behind Karma Cans, the lunch delivery company. Gini and Eccie founded Karma Cans in 2014, making fresh healthy salads for offices around London. They’ve built two kitchens for Karma Cans and they understand how important it is to get operations right early on, to leave you the space and money to grow and transform your business. That’s the goal of Karma Kitchens, to let businesses grow and scale.
Olio
Olio connects neighbours with each other and with local businesses so surplus food can be shared, not thrown away to reduce food waste.
This could be food nearing its sell-by date in local stores, spare home-grown vegetables, bread from your baker, or the groceries in your fridge when you go away.
For your convenience, OLIO can also be used for non-food household items too.
OLIO’s new startup service based in London is both super easy and about time, both for a greener better world…and to be on our best food startups london guide!
To make an item available, simply open the app, add a photo, description, and when and where the item is available for pick-up (it is not a delivery service at the moment).
To access items, simply browse the listings available near you, request whatever takes your fancy and arrange a pick-up via private messaging.
Perk Box
Perkbox (london based) is an all-in-one platform which helps you create a great employee experience.
Attract, engage and retain the best talent with Perks, free or discounted products, Recognition, Medical and Insights.
Tails
The Tails new startup business based in London began by assembling a crack team of experts including vets, nutritionists and engineers (and their dogs).
Their mission was then to develop a super-smart way to create a unique recipe and delivery service for every single dog – yes, even yours.
From your dog’s weird preference for whiffy fish smells, to that itchy skin condition, your dog’s tails.com recipe is based on information only you could know and to reduce food waste.
Too Good To Go
Too Good To Go has an ambitious goal: to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste.
The problem is simple: too much food is being thrown away. It happens at stores and in households, from fresh sandwiches sitting in rubbish bags behind cafes, to uneaten vegetables tipped into bins at home. It’s all delicious, made to be enjoyed – but it’s getting wasted instead.
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At the same time, food waste is putting the planet under enormous strain. Entire forests are cleared to grow produce that will never be eaten, and scientists have discovered how food releases harmful greenhouse gases when it’s disposed of unsustainably.
Uncommon
Uncommon have a new way of doing things and it’s called english wine in a can as they argue cans are the best way for us to bring their wines to you – and we’re not arguing!
We all know England has entered a new era of winemaking and it’s one that doesn’t have to be bound by convention. and Uncommon leading the way with bringing excellent english wine to Waitrose and all good wine merchants and restaurants everywhere.
INTERESTING FACT: Incredibly, what came to be known as the méthode champenoise was actually invented by wine coopers in England decades before it was attempted by Dom Perignon. Most French people – god bless’em – still believe that it was all due to the Dom.
As documented evidence of this it was Christopher Merrett who in a paper to the Royal Society in 1662 recorded that what came to be known as the méthode champenoise – ie secondary fermentation in the bottle and we here at the best food startups london guide would argue the term “Merret” would make a far superior name than “English Sparkling Wine” Bring it on! – source: Victor Keegan’s wine blog
Healthy Food Startups
All Plants
All Plants believe the world (and everyone on it, including us) would be better off if we ate more plants and they believe eating 100% plant-based meals should be tasty, easy and convenient.
The chef-made dishes contain the tastiest, most exciting plant-based ingredients we can find.
Instantly freezing our meals ensures nutrition and taste is locked in – so it tastes just as good in your kitchen as it does in ours.
Fast Food Startups
Deliveroo
Deliveroo‘s app-based delivery service based in London enables customers to order restaurant-standard food from the comfort of their sofa or office.
However, despite an Amazon led £450+ million Series G funding round, Deliveroo’s future is not assured, despite this awesome funding round, due to competition from Just Eat / Takeaway.com and being impacted by Corona.
Just Eat
Just Eat is now a European online food ordering and delivery service and is a part of the restaurant-to-consumer delivery segment of the online food delivery market. Consumers use the Just Eat app or website to search for restaurants offering take out services and order food from them online.
Nutrition Startups
Here are some of the nutrition startups across Europe working to make us all healthier.
Foodvisor (France)
Foodvisor enables you to track your progress in achieving both your health and wellness goals. It also identifies your weaknesses by highlighting areas that need improvement. Foodvisor nutrition app, will make achieving your goals effortless and fun!
Lifesum (Netherlands)
Lifesum is a digital self-care app that helps you reach your health and weight goals through better eating.
Noom (Ukraine)
Noom work with customers across the globe to help them create healthier habits, reduce their risk of chronic health problems, reverse disease, and foster healthier relationships with themselves in the process.
We believe the best way to attract people to a healthier lifestyle is to develop products that make that lifestyle more enjoyable.
Nuristas (Ireland)
Nuristas aims to disrupt the way we discover and develop new natural active ingredients for the food, dietary supplement, cosmetics, animal and plant heath industries. Transform your products using our revolutionary new active ingredient.
Devicare (Spain)
Devicare is a specialty biotech company dedicated to develop pathbreaking medical treatments in Urology combining the most recent scientific advances in nutritional therapy with digital technologies.
Virtuagym (UK)
Virtuagym launched in 2008 as a consumer app for web and mobile, providing users with an easy and fun way to work out and track their nutrition. With over 15 million users worldwide and a 4,5-star rating, Virtuagym is one of the leading innovators in the digital health and fitness domain.
Virtuagym Professional followed in 2012, after requests from the fitness community. It has grown into an all-in-one solution for client coaching, membership management and billing, scheduling and more. No more hassle with different systems with weak integration.
London Food Startups
