Menu

At Lacuna Kitchen, the food and the people who prepare, serve and clean up are treated with attention and care. With a keen eye for detail, we seize every opportunity to explore ‘hospitality’ - through ever shuffling roles and hierarchies - in all its finesse, glory and complexity.

In most restaurants, before your palate experiences the food, it is cut, cooked and served by people whose existence stays blissfully invisible. By interacting intimately with the same food, you can't be far away from each other. You may tip them and they may smile back at you. But rarely do your interactions overlap. Between them and you, there will always be a gap: a lacuna

At Lacuna Kitchen we mind this gap and strive to mend this gap.

Be enchanted by our plant-based menu: Four courses of vibrant and creative cuisine. Immerse, indulge, watch closely, listen deeply and relish the delicacies of labor…

About us

Conscious of the disparity in work standardized according to skin colors in western gastronomy and hospitality industry, we humbly open kitchen doors and warmly invite our guests to step into the back & front operations of our pop-up restaurant, in order to sensitize them about invisible labor, unhealthy working conditions, racism and privilege. 

Above all we wish to connect with people working in the kitchens of restaurants and hotels pan-europe and convey their stories and expertise.

Germany

Hamburg 

4. May, 2023 8 pm Kampnagel ticket & information

5. May, 2023 8 pm Kampnagel                ticket & information

6. May, 2023 5pm Kampnagel                ticket & information

6. May, 2023 8pm Kampnagel                 ticket & information


Recklinghausen

18. May, 2023 5pm Ruhrfestspiele             ticket & information

18. May, 2023 8pm Ruhrfestspiele ticket & information

19. May, 2023 5pm Ruhrfestspiele ticket & information

19. May, 2023 8pm Ruhrfestspiele  ticket & information

20. May, 2023 5pm Ruhrfestspiele ticket & information

20. May, 2023 8pm Ruhrfestspiele ticket & information


more dates and locations to be confirmed…

Dates

Coming soon to your neighbourhood

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Coming soon to your neighbourhood *

Back of House

Lead Artist Abhishek Thapar

Assistant Director & Production Clara Hanae Tolle

Dramaturgical Advise Tarun Kade

Visual Design Himanshi Parmar

Composition, Sound Design & Recording Andi Otto

Set & Light Design Julien F. Thomas

Artistic Advisor         Arthur Kneepkens

Culinary Advisor Yasemin Atici

Alexei Bazan, Anderson Dantas, Ira Hunger, Mohammadou Kamara, Magdalena Lermer

Hosted by

Team


A production of the Ruhrfestspiele and Kampnagel Hamburg.

Funded as part of "Exil heute - künstlerische Produktionsresidenzen", an initiative of Kampnagel and the Körber Foundation. Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR.

Here the tables are turned and the workers now take the lead role. 

Learn from the experts: the art of Invisibility.

Contact

Reservation & Inquiries for local adaptations of Lacuna Kitchen?

Please contact us via: info@lacuna.kitchen