Firmly Planted

Nearly two years old, Plant Street Market remains a foodie destination, with reliable mainstays and some tasty new entries for pizza and sushi lovers.

- Joseph Hayes

WHEN I FIRST wrote about Plant Street Market in September of 2015, the food hub anchoring the end of Winter Garden’s main street had been open just four months, and I was already in love. Approaching its second anniversary, the Market is not only thriving but evolving.

Axum Coffee still roasts and grinds beans on-site, chocolatier David Ramirez still creates artistic gems out of chocolate, and there’s still an oxygen bar if all the choices make you feel light headed.

Ample indoor seating and umbrella-shaded tables on the brick patio make for pleasant dining, whether the food is from the chef driven Five Thymes Five (enormous servings of fish and chips and an impressive blue cheese burger with grass-fed beef from neighbor butchery The Local, which makes fresh sandwiches and salads of its own), or a German pastry from Euro Bake World.

The Press’d Juice Bar has expanded its rustic wood space to include smoothies, cold-pressed juices and vegetarian snacks like a raw grain breakfast bowl, wraps and gluten-free, vegan nachos.