Cloud Diner, a new cloud kitchen with a dine-in twist, will open soon at 325 Hughes Center Drive.
“Cloud kitchens really developed during the pandemic,” Marina Lang, Cloud Diner’s head of operations, told What Now Las Vegas in a phone call on Thursday afternoon. “They’re usually focused on deliveries. No buildout cost, just rent. You can be up and running within two weeks of signing a lease.”
The 3000 sq. ft. space will be divided into 7 individual kitchen lots, and will function much like any other cloud kitchen, with a key difference: dine-in space. The concept is the brainchild of Mark Storey, a businessman previously known for EuroContempo Cabinetry, a business he founded with his wife Lisa Storey.
“People come in and they see a tablet with seven different concepts: Italian, Chinese, Indian, and so on,” Lang said. “Everyone in the family can eat what they want, and not just pick one thing.”
Lang isn’t just Head of Operations at Cloud Diner, however. She also owns a restaurant there. Fans of Indian food may, in fact, have already recalled her from No Worries… Curry!, a cooking show she starred in with her mother. That concept then produced a number of popular recipes, and finally a restaurant.
In the No Worries… Curry! restaurant project, Lang sets out to show the diversity of Indian cuisine, to expand people’s conceptions of it.
“When people think of Indian food, they think of butter chicken: buttery, heavy. And that’s good. But it’s not the way a traditional Indian household would eat. We cook more eastern-Indian style. It’s a lot lighter, a lot better for health-focused people.”
Lang said Cloud Diner is in talks with four or five different restaurants to open up shop in its kitchens. The location, Lang noted, is only two minutes from the strip, in a spot that sees a million tourist year and is surround by about a million square feet of office space.
“Our vision is to give a platform to people who have a brand they believe in and want to get started. They can begin now, with us, without having to go through the usual buildup.”
