Frequently Asked Questions
Nimbus is an innovative commercial kitchen that empowers food businesses to grow and thrive through hourly kitchen rentals, customizable long-term kitchen leases, and engaging community spaces with event programming. We remove the extensive regulatory hurdles and capital investment required in a new kitchen build-out, enabling food businesses to succeed at all business stages.
Nimbus operates four key business segments:
- Hourly Kitchens: hourly kitchen rentals are available on-demand and have low monthly minimums, providing flexibility and scalability for new, growing, or seasonal businesses.
- Long-Term Kitchens: long-term kitchens, available on 6-month or annual terms, allow established concepts to test a new market or scale with limited upfront capital.
- Studio + Event Space: event spaces and adjacent studio kitchens give our members and the broader community room to create content, host a tasting, or throw a dinner party.
- Storage: on-site dry, cold, and frozen storage gives members and outside businesses the storage space needed to support their businesses.
Nimbus currently has two locations: we opened our first kitchen on the Lower East Side in early 2021, and we launched our flagship location in Downtown Brooklyn in mid-2022. While New York City is our home, our sights are set nationwide: we plan to have kitchens in every major city in the United States by 2030.
Nimbus is open from 6am-10pm, 7 days a week. We are only closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, and Independence Day.
Yes! Being nimble is at our core: Nimbus is designed to be a flexible kitchen solution for any food business that does not require full-time space. Our hourly kitchen stations are rented in four-hour blocks starting at 6am.
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Absolutely! Members can rent dedicated, enclosed kitchen rooms at Nimbus. Our long-term kitchen rentals start at six months, but we also offer annual and multi-year rentals.
While most of our monthly kitchen spaces are completely turn-key and pre-outfitted with under-hood equipment, for certain longer-term rental agreements, Nimbus can customize the kitchen space and hood line.
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Let’s party! Our Lower East Side and Downtown Brooklyn locations have community event spaces specifically designed for sharing experiences over cooking classes, tastings, team-building events, content creation, co-working, and more.
Our spaces are fully divisible, allowing for intimate gatherings of a few people to larger events of up to 74 guests (and everything in between).
Contact us for more information about hosting an event at Nimbus.
Nimbus has kitchens of all shapes and sizes, meaning businesses can choose the right kitchen size and layout based on their specific needs.
Nimbus hourly kitchen stations range from 90 square feet to 150 square feet, while our long-term kitchen rooms range from 165sqft to 400sqft.
All kitchen rentals also include access to additional common spaces (dishwashing areas, storage rooms, and break rooms).