Food Design Playground

Food Design Playground is a place where you learn to look differently at something very ordinary: food. This monumental location in the center of Dordrecht is not about luxury tables or perfectly prepared plates, but about your senses. Here it's all about what food does - with your body, your thoughts, your memories.

We host pop-up dinners with radical chefs and designers. For example, you can experience an audio tasting where you listen blindfolded to a story unfolding in your mouth. There are exhibitions and installations on food design, a food-book club "eat what you read," and children's theater with edible workshops.

In addition, this is also the place where you can get started yourself. During retreats and workshops you will learn how to use food as a design material - or as a means to tell a story, design a ritual, and to really touch people.

There is a library full of books on food design, food culture, system, language, forms and philosophy. And a small concept shop where you'll find sensory gifts, unusual objects and edible ideas. Food Design Playground is not a normal restaurant. You can't just walk in here for lunch. We work on an event basis - performances, dinners, workshops and other times when the door is wide open. And good to know: you don't have to be a designer to feel at home. Just 'ordinary' people with curiosity and a mouth are more than welcome here.For anyone who has had enough of food as a product, and fancies food as a process.For dreamers, thinkers, makers, doubters and gourmets.For those who have the guts to take their taste buds into unknown territory. 

Want to organize something yourself?
The various spaces can be rented for creative gatherings, meetings, dinners, lectures or inspiration sessions. With or without catering, always with character. Food design Playground is an initiative of Marije Vogelzang. Marije started as a designer in 1999 and is one of the pioneers of the field. Food Design Playground is a place to taste, think and make. To be touched - through your tongue.