Inside the 'dark kitchens' shaking up London food delivery
Staying in is as good as eating out at London's hottest restaurant with Deliveroo Editions.
Deliveroo Editions
Takeout delivery company Deliveroo has set up "dark kitchens" around London called Editions. Established restaurants take over pods, kit them out and prepare food that's picked up by drivers and shipped out to surrounding residential areas.
Pods for cooking in
It allows the restaurants to serve an entirely separate customer base from those who come to eat at their sit-down outlets.
Foodie artwork
Deliveroo provides restaurants with containers rent free in sites around London.
A Camberwell scene
We visited the Deliveroo Editions site in Camberwell in the south of the capital.
Crust Bros pizza oven
Joe Moore started Crust Bros as a street food stall after learning how to make pizza in the kitchens of Rome and Naples.
Mozzarella
Crust Bros expanded to serve the London takeout market with the help of Deliveroo Editions.
Prep station
Off the strength of its success, Moore has also now opened a bricks-and-mortar restaurant in the center of London.
Deliveroo app
Orders come in via the Deliveroo app every evening.
#PizzaKing
And these guys prep the pizzas before Deliveroo drivers come to pick them up.
No, it's not a diner
Each Editions site hosts several restauants.
An array of pods
There are five different restaurants on Camberwell's Editions site.
Tandoor
And each restaurant brings its own menu and equipment into the mix -- whether that be pizza ovens or tandoors.
Motu kitchen
Motu is a delivery-only brand set up by the same people who run hugely successful and popular London restaurants Gymkhana and Hoppers.
Motu box
Motu puts its food in specially created boxes in order give customers a sense of the brand when their food arrives.
Moped with delivery box
It's then up to Deliveroo drivers to deliver it.
Deliveroo rider
Like Uber drivers, Deliveroo's riders are gig economy workers who can work as much or little as they like.
Rider at rest
Some riders also work for rival delivery service UberEats.