OPENINGS
The Sanctum Café will take over the adjacent space formerly occupied by Firefly Yoga. The café will remain open during the expansion process … Look for Meza Mediterranean Grill (from the same owner as Café Annie) to move into the old Loco Motion space in Baldwin Park … Casa Barcelona, a tapas joint, has opened in the former California Burrito Express building on East Colonial Drive … Earth Fare, a specialty organic and natural foods grocery store, will anchor Crescent Lucerne, a walkable mixed-use development planned for the corner of Orange Avenue and Gore Street … Reds Coffeehouse has opened in the old Maui Smoothie space in the Lake Mary Pointe plaza … Nalan Sultan Kitchen, serving Turkish cuisine, has opened at 3030 E. Semoran Blvd. in Apopka … Luke’s Kitchen & Bar, by Brandon McGlamery, has pushed back its opening to January … Reel Fish Coastal Kitchen + Bar will open in the former Ravenous Pig space in February … Snowbean Café, a dessert and coffee joint by Izziban Sushi & BBQ, is currently in soft opening mode. The café is situated next door to Izziban’s East Colonial Drive location. A grand opening is slated for Jan. 14.
CLOSINGS
Winter Park’s Daya, a restaurant serving “plant-based” cuisine, has closed after less than a year … After 12 years in Winter Park, Carlucci’s – inside the Kmart shopping plaza – has closed.
NEWS/EVENTS
Domu at East End Market will start serving brunch this Saturday and Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., with bottomless boba mimosas and Bloody Marys …
Orlando Date Night Discovery Club, a monthly subscription that gives members curated date nights around Orlando and Winter Park, has launched. Go to orlandodiscoveryclub.com for more … Free food events at the Orlando Public Library include Food 101: International Holiday Foods at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, a discussion of the historic and social significance of foods used to celebrate holidays around the world; and Cuisine Corner: A Vegetarian Holiday at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, with library staff showing guests how to prepare knockout vegetarian holiday meals … Maxine’s on Shine will host Bad Santa and the Angry Elves, the “badass one-of-a-kind punk-rock Christmas extravaganza,” Monday, Dec. 19, from 7-10 p.m. Cost is a $10 donation at the door.
This article appears in Dec 14-20, 2016.
