Commercial Kitchen to Rent in Birmingham
Why Rent a Kitchen in Birmingham?
With a population of over 1.2 million, Birmingham is the UK’s second city. In addition, 170,000 people commute into the city centre every day. It boasts the UK’s second largest student population with five universities and 65,000 students residing there.
Birmingham has become a hotspot not only for students but also for companies looking to relocate their businesses. Birmingham has seen giants such as HSBC, BT, Goldman Sachs, and Deutsche Bank establishing offices. Upcoming developments in and around the city centre include Paradise District, a £750m project which includes 370 homes, Soho Wharf, a £165m urban regeneration scheme which includes 750 new homes, and Eastside Locks (a £450m project around the Education Quarter with 769 new homes).
Radius Includes: The Jewellery Quarter, Aston (University Campus), Handsworth, Perry Barr, Small Heath, City Centre, Harborne, Edgbaston and Moseley.
Average Income £29,800
Radii Population 521,094
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What's Available at
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The Birmingham site covers everything from a single day's hire to higher-volume production. A Day-Rate Kitchen can be booked by the day for events, catering jobs, or recipe development; Central Production Kitchen space handles batch cooking and multi-site supply at volume; and a Delivery Kitchen – also called a dark kitchen, ghost kitchen, or cloud kitchen – gives delivery-first brands a base built for Deliveroo, Uber Eats, and Just Eat orders across the city.
Pricing in Birmingham
Because the Birmingham site spans day-rate hire, delivery kitchens, and larger production space, pricing is structured around how you actually use the space rather than a one-size-fits-all rate.
Short-term Day-Rate hire is charged per day (minimum two days), while Delivery Kitchen and Central Production Kitchen space runs on an ongoing monthly membership. In every case the fee is all-inclusive – utilities, waste management, wifi, cleaning, and site management are bundled in, so there are no separate bills to track.
Why our pricing works
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You pay one fixed amount – never a cut of your sales.
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Utilities, wifi, cleaning, and site management are all covered, with no separate bills.
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Day-Rate hire has no minimum term; Delivery Kitchen and CPU memberships stay flexible rather than locking you into a long lease.
Our Birmingham Sites
Our Birmingham dark kitchen is located in Hockley, at St. Georges Street, Birmingham, B19 3QU – just north of the city centre and close to the Jewellery Quarter – offering Standard Kitchens (18m²) and Large Kitchens (28m²), fully fitted and ready to trade. For brands producing at volume, our dedicated Central Production Kitchen provides larger-format space for batch cooking, manufacturing, and multi-site supply.
Our Service
Choose from a variety of different use cases and benefit from our plug and play offering.
Flexible Terms
We don’t believe in restrictive, long traditional leases. Step into flexible contracts that are tailored to your needs.
Modular Design
Take advantage of our in-house construction team that can help quote for works, advise on plans and recommend trusted tradesmen for any works planned.
Managed Spaces
We know that starting a business is tough. That’s why we’ve kept our spaces affordable and quick to launch.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Our Birmingham site is at St. Georges Street, Hockley, B19 3QU, just north of the city centre. By train, Jewellery Quarter station is about 0.7 miles away (West Midlands Railway and West Midlands Metro), with Birmingham Snow Hill around 1.2 miles. Birmingham city centre is roughly 1.5 miles away, and the site connects easily to the city's major road network, making it straightforward to reach by car or for delivery drivers.
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Yes. The Birmingham site offers short-term Day-Rate hire with a two-day minimum and no ongoing lock-in, so you can book just the days you need – a catering contract, a pop-up, a menu development session, or a shoot. Everything's ready to cook with from the moment you arrive, and the daily rate already covers utilities, water, waste, pest control, wifi, and cleaning, so there are no add-ons to sort out on the day.
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Yes. As well as standard kitchen units, the Birmingham site can support larger production setups for caterers, food manufacturers, and restaurant groups cooking at volume – the kind of batch cooking and multi-site supply a Central Production Kitchen is built for. The team can talk through the production space and layout options available at the site.
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There's no single answer – it comes down to which space you take. Day-Rate hire has a two-day minimum and no ongoing commitment beyond the days you book. A Delivery Kitchen or Central Production Kitchen is taken on an ongoing basis, but on flexible terms designed to move with the business rather than lock it into a long lease. Our Birmingham team can set out the exact terms for whichever option fits.
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Yes, and Birmingham is well set up for it. Because the site offers both standard kitchens and larger production space, a brand can start small and step up into higher-volume production on the same site as demand grows. Beyond that, Encore Kitchens runs a network of 25+ locations and 550+ kitchens across London, Birmingham, Manchester, and Leeds, so expanding into another city happens under the same account and the same standard, with no need to switch providers. You can view available locations here.
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Yes. We offer tours of our Birmingham site so you can see the space, the equipment, and the facilities in person, and talk through availability and pricing for the way you plan to use it before making any commitment. Book a tour to arrange a visit.