Food Hub Coming to Winter Park

Orlando's Canvas restaurant has a shop, restaurant and takeaway/coffee bar in the same building. During the day folks can grab a breakfast/lunch snack. In the evening they can dine in the restaurant. When they need a last-minute gift, they can browse the shop. 

This, to me, is the "keep 'em there" method Disney employs: Go to our parks in the daytime, drink, eat and shop in our Disney Springs outdoor mall in the evening, and sleep in our hotels at night. 

This same model is coming to Winter Park.

The triumvirate of food destinations owned by one family: Cask + Larder, Ravenous Pig and Swine + Sons, have plans in the works to all three be on the same piece of property by 2018. 

This will become a food hub for Winter Park and offer a smaller but similar experience to the food hall, a trend we've reported on recently. 

Swine + Sons will remain in its thoughtfully designed, too-dinky-for-the-quality-they-offer storefront next door to a dry cleaner. (a dry cleaner!!!) Ravenous Pig will move from its parking-hell pig-muraled place to the dining-room-half of the Cask & Larder building, steps away from Swine + Sons.  Cask + Larder will remain in the dining room half of it's building. 

According to Orlando Sentinel, a walkway will connect Swine + Sons to Cask + Larder. Also, a new entrance will be constructed facing Pennsylvania Avenue. 

I recommend a garden and outdoor seating. My two cents. 

As an aside, the media coverage on this story has been entertaining watch. Orlando Weekly wrote THE BEST headline of the year about all of this. They got piiiiiiiiised about getting the scoop, receiving a denial letter from the company, then reading their scoop published (with interviews from the owners) in the Orlando Business Journal. And the July 7th piece by Orlando Sentinel is eerily similar to the July 14th piece written by Bungalower.   

Related: Below are the Orlando and Orlando-area food halls we know about:
  1. East End Market - 3201 Corrine Dr - READ - Currently open. While it may not officially be a food hall, it's the closest thing we have right now. Several booths selling bread, coffee, lunches and alcohol. 
  2. Plant Street Market - 426 W. Plant Street, Winter Garden - READ - 20 vendors including food, coffee, butcher, clothing, honey, 2 restaurants and a brewery. A quick drive to Winter Garden is rewarded with a relaxing time indoors or out. Go on the weekend to catch the farmers market. 
  3. Food Hall by Clay Miller - 640 S. Orlando Ave  READ - Just announced. 6 food stalls and one restaurant is coming to Maitland. The stalls could each be run by a separate entity or all run by Clay Miller. 
  4. Artegon Marketplace's Eat Street Food Hall - 5250 International Dr - READ -  Construction is currently underway. Set to open next year. The name will be Eat Street Marketplace. It will be 27,300 sq ft of food vendors, tasting stations, culinary retail and even a cooking school, all in a marketplace environment. 
  5. Rumored Craig Ustler Downtown Food Hall - Creative Village - READ -  On June 22nd we wrote about a rumored food hall coming to Creative Village. Our owner Mark Baratelli was a part of an invite-only food brainstorming meeting at City Hall. He brought up food halls and how they can incubate the restaurant scene. Someone in the room said a food hall was coming to Creative Village. Others verbally confirmed it but no one revealed who was behind it. On July 6th, downtown developer Craig Ustler revealed that he was building the food hall in an Orlando Sentinel article. It will be located in one of his apartment buildings in Creative Village. No further details were provided. 
  6. Airport Food Hall - Orlando International Airport - READ - Opened in May 2016. The company that built this, Villa Restaurant Group, used the term food hall in the title, but we feel it's not a a real on based on their occupants which include Jersey Mikes, Chipotle and in-house brands. 

When Swine + Sons debuted their first breakfast menu we were there to photograph (and eat) it all.