Kitchens First, Since 2016
The truth is, we have probably met. Perhaps at dinner in the highest restaurant on earth, or over a slow coffee in the café you think of as yours – our work was already in the room, and we never said a word. The Toolkit began in 2016 building and keeping the kitchens behind rooms this city knows, and grew outward into the dining rooms themselves. We build F&B the way operators need it built: to food-code, to the licence dates, to the night the doors open.
- Since
- 2016 – kitchens first, dining rooms after
- Scope
- Dining rooms, bars and hotel venues – with the kitchens and extraction behind them
- Food-code
- DM food control – in-house
- Programme
- Built to licence dates, not hopes
- Joinery
- Banquettes, bars and tables – our own workshop
- Standard
- Built to remain
Proof, Not Promises
A restaurant built from the ground up, a café whose kitchen works in full view of its room, and an essay on what it actually takes to open in this city – approvals, authorities and all.
A restaurant is judged at eight on a Thursday; it is won at first fix.
How It Runs
F&B runs backwards from a date – the licence, the landlord, the opening night. We plan from that date to today, and the kitchen leads: if the line commissions on time, the room follows.
Frames marked “· study” are visual studies, shown while the projects' photography is prepared. The rooms they stand for are real – each opens the project it belongs to.
- 01The operator's brief and the licence dates
- 02Drawings, food-code and DM approvals – in-house
- 03Civil, MEP and extraction – the heavy weeks
- 04The kitchen line – set, connected, commissioned
- 05Front of house – joinery, finishes, light
- 06Opening week – with us on call
Answered Plainly
How long does a restaurant fit out take in Dubai?
The honest answer is: your licence dates decide, and the programme is built backwards from them. A café is quicker than a full kitchen build; approvals move at the authorities' pace, which is exactly why we run them in-house.
Do you handle food control and DM approvals?
Yes – in-house, since 2016. Layouts drawn to food-code from day one, submissions filed and chased by us, inspections attended by the people who built what is being inspected.
Can you build just the kitchen?
Yes – happily. Kitchens are where this company started, and a kitchen-only scope behind another contractor's front of house does not offend us in the least.
Do you work with kitchen consultants and equipment suppliers?
Yes – we coordinate the kitchen consultant, the stainless fabricator and the equipment schedule inside one programme, so the line arrives, connects and commissions in the right order.
Bring us the menu and the date you must open.