The community is tight-knit and supportive. More than a dozen businesses currently operate out of their kitchen in total they’ve worked with about 35 to 40 entrepreneurs since they opened in 2013. It’s easier for people to slowly test their product or food business here without risking their life savings.” “And the goal from the beginning was to build up entrepreneurs. “We always wanted to be hyper Lakeland focused,” Leach says. They serve killer snacks from Cob & Pen down the street, a restaurant and beer bar that is set to open a new Lakeland concept soon: a bar and arcade called the Rec Room. There’s also Concord Coffee in Lakeland’s Dixieland district, a craft coffee spot opened in 2015 that roasts its own beans nearby. They’re joining established businesses like the Poor Porker, which Lakelanders flock to on the weekend for fresh beignets, and Jenn Smurr’s Born and Bread Bakehouse, a leader in this city’s culinary scene featured in national publications like Food and Wine and USA Today. This fall, a food hall called the Joinery will open next to the Catapult building gathering spot the Yard on Mass will debut brews and a rotating collection of food trucks in November and artisanal bakery Honeycomb Bread Bakers is hoping to open its first brick-and-mortar in August or September.Įach of these brings a new concept to Lakeland, and new verve to the historically sleepy city. It’s one of many notable openings coming in the next six months. Benjamin Vickers of Honeycomb Bread Bakers works in the Catapult kitchen.
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