Lauralee Hamilton Foerster, Bonita SpringsĪ: Prime House steak and seafood restaurant recently opened for dinner on the corner of Bonita Beach Road and Imperial Shores Boulevard, across from Master Bait & Tackle in Bonita Springs. Q: What’s the new steak place on Bonita Beach Road? For more information, go to Prime location Seed to Table, 4835 Immokalee Road, is open 7 a.m. It’s the part that makes you can’t wait to get to work in the morning.” “We come in in the morning, everybody works together with hugs and handshakes and a lot of love going on in there. I thought by doing something when we have this many people that we would lose that or at least if we didn’t lose it, it would take a year to get to it,” he said. “The most amazing thing is I was afraid that we were not going to be able to bring our culture from Oakes Farms, like where everyone gives everyone a hug every morning and there’s this family atmosphere. Oakes is most proud of this personal accomplishment. “The beauty of all that additional business is that we’ll be able to do that without adding parking issues, so that will be a lot of additional revenue without a parking problem, which I think is still the number one issue even though we have 600 parking spots if you count both sides of the highway here.”Įven before the doors opened for the local store, the new team already is continuing the family-based culture of Oakes Farms. We’re going to launch that, but we want to make sure that we are taking care of all the customers that are coming here before we go and launch all that additional business,” he said. “We’re going to be putting 25 vans on the road doing home delivery for breakfast, lunch, dinner and groceries, and that might be a month or two away. COURTESY OF PLANET GRILLEDĪ few features in the new store that won’t be ready this week are the garden center and food-delivery service, Mr. The butcher area has a window to display dry-aged beef and will even cook steaks for customers.ĬHEESE Planet Grilled Cheese, now open in Coastland Center mall’s food court, features gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato soup and sides. The sustainable seafood counter has tanks of live tilapia and live shrimp built into the wall behind it. It couldn’t have happened any better.”Įven the parts of the market that are similar to an average grocery store - with sections for meat, seafood, dairy, produce, a deli and baked goods - provide a twist of something different. “Even with the other ends of our businesses with the maturity of them and what it takes for our farm to take care of this business, and our seafood distribution and our food distribution, they’ve all matured. It could not have worked out at any better timing,” Mr. “Everyone says how long it’s been taking but, to me, this timing happened at exactly the right time. Shown is a view from the mezzanine of the grab-and-go and checkout stations near the exit of the store, just a fraction of the 74,000-square-foot specialty grocery store. The interior of Oakes Farms’ new Seed to Table Market in North Naples is expansive. The Seed to Table exterior sign was just installed over the weekend. Earlier this year, he leased a strip of land on the other side of Livingston to create a parking lot for the store’s employees, which have expanded to 600 workers. The journey began in June 2014 when Oakes Farms purchased the former Albertsons supermarket and its 8-acre property on the northeast corner of Livingston and Immokalee roads. Anything that wasn’t exactly the way we wanted it, we changed it.” It’s exceeded my expectations in just about every way. It’s amazing,” said Oakes Farms founder Alfie Oakes. “For a shopping experience, I think it’s one of the coolest things in Naples for sure. Foodie finds are tucked into a maze of upscale niches overlooked by a sports bar and casual dining area on its mezzanine. Wide-eyed first-timers felt more as if they were touring the sprawling store rather than shopping initially.
Hundreds of shoppers received the first glimpse inside the 74,000-square-foot specialty grocery store and culinary destination.
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