They offer mobility - food is easily transported from kitchen to dining room - plus plenty of storage options. A very versatile furniture item, a kitchen island or cart is ideal for serving food - or even enabling the drama of food preparation (restaurant style) to continue in the presence of your seated dining room guests. Kitchen Islands: A kitchen island is a versatile and mobile storage area for cooking, and also storing knives, bowls and other utensils. It can allow you to be creative in the kitchen by giving easy access to your cooking area and by allowing kitchen utensils to be moved to where they are needed. Slicing and dicing make quite a mess, but its half of that with these great islands.