Fenix Food Factory is located within the Katendracht neighborhood of Rotterdam. It sources independent chefs, brewers, and craftsmen to fill up booths in their facility to create a unique market experience. My friends and I took a water taxi over there one day to check it out.
At an initial glance, I thought it was a pretty cool place. With small kitchens or shops to buy from and various styles of seating arrangements, I could understand why people would enjoy going. But that is not the same feeling I had throughout.
It could have been the time of day, but we were the only ones there, and not many of the businesses inside were open. I also then began to take the whole neighborhood into account and could recognize that this was a very gentrified location. This was made apparent from signage about the history of Katendracht, with its information on its immigration relations and economic activities, to the sheer amount of vegan shops and fancy apartment buildings around.
Fenix Food Factory just felt like another attempt to change the landscape of the neighborhood towards something 'worth' investing in.
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