Open Kitchen Santa Fe

Open Kitchen Santa Fe is a catering business in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It operates as The Kitchen Table Santa Fe, a commercial kitchen built to help food entrepreneurs innovate, collaborate and grow. The facility offers a fully equipped commercial kitchen with 14 rentable work stations and 24-hour access, along with dry storage, freezer storage and walk-in refrigerator storage. Members also have use of a pop-up dining room for events. A separate multipurpose event space seats up to 50 people and hosts workshops, cooking classes, photography projects, networking events, popup dinners, luncheons and parties. The kitchen includes a hot kitchen, prep kitchen stations, an 18 x 8 walk-in refrigerator and an outdoor courtyard.

The Kitchen Table Santa Fe was founded by Andrea Abedi, who studied Culinary Arts at The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York in 1998 and continued at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, studying Food Service Management. She went on to work at Charlie Trotter's restaurant in Chicago, where she trained in its wine cellar and worked with chefs, farmers and winemakers. She returned to Santa Fe as Partner and Head Chef at Rasa Juice Bar & Ayurveda, earning the Local Hero Award from Edible Magazine two years running for her organic, plant-based cafe. She began developing The Kitchen Table Santa Fe concept in 2018, and the kitchen opened in May 2023. It has since been named Business of the Year 2023 by the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce and received a Local Hero Award.

The business sits on Don Gaspar Avenue, steps from the Don Gaspar Avenue Bridge and Santa Fe Village. The New Mexico Supreme Court and the Supreme Court Law Library are both about a tenth of a mile away, as are Mabry Hall and the Jerry Apodaca Building.

For Santa Fe's food entrepreneurs, Open Kitchen Santa Fe provides the equipment, storage and event space to build a food business, backed by a founder whose cooking earned the city's Local Hero Award.