Green restaurateurs Serve up healthful food in West Annapolis and at the Market House.
It started with two women working at Trader Joe’s. Carla Lucente started a catering business on the side, and her co-worker and friend Stacey Jackowski began helping her. “We got along so well. We were very efficient together. And one day Carla said, ‘Do you want to open a restaurant together?’ The next day we started looking at real estate,” Jackowski said. “One month later, we signed a lease…unbeknownst to our husbands,” Lucente added. “We knew it was the right thing to do. One thing after another fell into place. We were searching for a coffee machine, and a gentleman walked in the door and said, ‘Do you guys need an espresso machine?’ We said, ‘Yes!’ and bought it for a quarter of what we would have spent.” Lucente envisioned local, …
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b.b.bistro
112 Annapolis St, Annapolis, MD
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Craig Sewell, owner of A Cook's Café in Annapolis, serves up a fresh take on food.
Craig Sewell, owner of A Cook's Café in Annapolis, is well known in the community for his restaurant, catering business and cooking school. Yet, he's better known for being a leader for the "buy local" movement and an advocate for the importance of sustainable food. Sewell took an unusual path to get to where he is today. After finishing college and following a girl to Seattle, Sewell ended up working at the only four-star restaurant in the city with Chef Peter from Czechoslovakia. The restaurant was booked every night and Chef Peter, who was passionate and talented, taught Sewell all about the business. Sewell loved the immediacy of contact with people and the intensity of a busy restaurant. Then, Sewell became a single parent and needed …
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A Cook's Cafe
911 Commerce Rd, Annapolis, MD
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