OPENINGS After renovations and upgrades, Gideon’s Bakehouse will reopen this weekend inside East End Market … Bulla Gastrobar, serving “unique Spanish and Catalan dishes,” has opened in the Lakeside Crossing shopping center on 17-92 in Winter Park … GB’s Bottle Shop & Tasting Bar, a sister space to the Gnarly Barley, has opened on Virginia Drive in Ivanhoe Village … Also in Ivanhoe Village, College Park pastaria Trevi Pasta will open Trevi Pasta Express in the former This N’ That Eats space this month … Axum Market Café has opened inside the Dr. Phillips YMCA … Pig Floyd’s Urban Barbakoa will open in the former Union Burger space in Lake Nona in early 2017 … Saigon Blvd Taste of Vietnam has opened in the Winter Springs Town Center, and is in talks to open another location in the 420 East apartment building downtown … Tubbs Brewing will open across the street from the new Orlando City Soccer stadium on West Central Avenue … The Brix Project, a restaurant, brewpub and beer garden by the Playalinda Brewing Company, has opened in Titusville.
CLOSINGS Chef Jason Schofield’s This N’ That Eats in Ivanhoe Village has closed.
NEWS/EVENTS The Big Gay Brunch goes from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. this Saturday, Oct. 8, at the Abbey before the Come Out With Pride parade. Tickets are $45 … Later that day is Taste of Pride, featuring such notable chefs as Art Smith, Cat Cora, Elizabeth Faulkner, Anita Lo, Melissa Kelly and more, from 6-9 p.m. Saturday at Lake Eola Park. Tickets are $150 … The fifth annual Orlando Jerk and Caribbean Culture Festival is 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, at the Central Florida Fairgrounds. Tickets are $25.
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This article appears in Oct 5-11, 2016.
