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Bites<br />
The<br />
Final<br />
Puzzle<br />
Piece<br />
26 thecoralgablesmagazine.com<br />
Anyone who has spent time<br />
on Giralda Avenue – especially<br />
on the now pedestrian<br />
mall of Giralda Plaza – will<br />
have noticed the odd-ball on<br />
the block: The Church of Scientology<br />
between Miss Saigon<br />
Bistro and Mara’s Basque Cuisine.<br />
For years, it has quietly<br />
processed converts to its unique<br />
vision on a retail street devoted<br />
mostly to dining.<br />
Now the 1947 building,<br />
a former U.S. Post Office, is<br />
being converted to four restaurants,<br />
including the block’s<br />
first rooftop eatery. Purchased<br />
last year by the Gables-based<br />
Maven Real Estate group for<br />
$3.9 million, the renovation is<br />
revealing 19-foot ceilings and<br />
fluted 25-foot columns that<br />
had been covered up.<br />
“Most of the older<br />
buildings [on Giralda] are like<br />
bowling alleys, narrow and<br />
dark,” says Maven’s managing<br />
partner Marc Schwarzberg.<br />
“We have towering ceilings<br />
and wide spaces, and we’ve<br />
The Breakfast<br />
Club<br />
The rumors that you can<br />
breakfast all day long at<br />
ThreeFold Café on Giralda are<br />
true. If you go to their website,<br />
their breakfast and lunch<br />
menus are in fact identical,<br />
and there is no dinner menu.<br />
Then again, who needs it when<br />
you can get shrimp tacos for<br />
breakfast, along with salmon<br />
scrambled eggs, chicken parma,<br />
worked to preserve that.” The<br />
transformed building will be<br />
sheathed in glass to let in the<br />
light, and, so far, will house<br />
a Catalonian-style tapas bar,<br />
a Coyo Taco outlet, and an<br />
Italian restaurant. Opening is<br />
scheduled for Q1 2019.<br />
Other restaurant transformations<br />
in store by the Maven<br />
Group: A former architect’s<br />
office next door at 116 Giralda,<br />
and the historic La Palma<br />
building on Alhambra Circle.<br />
Stay tuned.<br />
and that Millenial favorite,<br />
smashed avocado toast?<br />
The brainchild of Australian<br />
Nick Sharp, ThreeFold is also<br />
popular for Sunday brunch, for<br />
obvious reasons. “All-day breakfast<br />
cafés with locally roasted<br />
coffee are big in Australia, it’s<br />
what we do,” says Sharp, whose<br />
hometown city of Melbourne<br />
has 3,500 such places.<br />
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