Over a dozen entrepreneur chefs and innovative food specialists call Carlsbad Gateway Center their culinary home. In our unique environment of shared inspiration the following businesses have not only developed their unique tastes, but also built thriving businesses often from the ground up.
5671 Palmer Way, Suite H Carlsbad
760-705-4528
Founding partners, Pete & Robert, have spent the past 20+ years working in the action sports industry and also grew up surfing, snowboarding, cycling and being active in the outdoor community. After spending years at trade shows dedicated to these industries and realizing the only options for food was typically hot dogs, burgers, & pizza, the idea for a healthy alternative to serve at these events was born.
The first trailer was purchased in August 2015 and a long, successful week at Outdoor Retailer in Salt Lake City, UT ensued. The response was overwhelming, and they spent the following year learning how to build the best Acai Bowl out there, focusing on healthy, superfood ingredients. The simplicity of the Aloha Acai Bowl they now serve is the perfect mixture of whole foods and great taste.
With Robert heading up the Orange County presence and opening up the first brick and mortar store in San Clemente, Pete’s focus is ensuring that San Diego County is covered for catering, events, and the like. The goal is to share their product throughout Orange and San Diego Counties locally at farmers markets, races, street fairs, and corporate events. Once you try it, you’ll know what all the hype is… Yeeew!
Thanks for checking us out!
5621 Palmer Way, Suite B Carlsbad
800-801-7210
From humble beginnings as an apprentice in a five-star kitchen, to dominating the charcuterie market in the United States, quality has and will always remain a priority for Chef Pascal Besset.
Our Mission is to provide top quality, uniquely handcrafted salami to the sophisticated palate. Our artisanal products are made with the finest natural meats available and enriched with nuances of European and Mediterranean flair. Our focus is dedicated to creating culinary magic, while elevating your favorite dishes to gastronomic luxury. With every taste, you’ll encounter the history of passion and the years of dedicated worldly experience that goes into each product.
From humble beginnings as an apprentice in a five-star kitchen, to dominating the charcuterie market in the United States, quality has and will always remain a priority for Chef Pascal Besset.
Our Mission is to provide top quality, uniquely handcrafted salami to the sophisticated palate. Our artisanal products are made with the finest natural meats available and enriched with nuances of European and Mediterranean flair. Our focus is dedicated to creating culinary magic, while elevating your favorite dishes to gastronomic luxury. With every taste, you’ll encounter the history of passion and the years of dedicated worldly experience that goes into each product.
5621 Palmer Way, Suite C Carlsbad
909-529-2337
Welcome to Arcana Brewing Company! We’re a craft microbrewery located in always sunny Carlsbad, California. It is here that we’ve embarked on a journey to create tasty ales that celebrate the uniqueness of life.
From potent porters to small batch strong ales, the beauty of being a small time purveyor of brews is that we get to have more fun in front of the kettle. We always have our classic favorites on tap, but are able to experiment at will, subbing in seasonals and following where our taste buds lead. We even have the flexibility to customize specially brewed batches just for you and yours. Our mission is to introduce you to something new, keeping the mystery and spontaneity of craft brewing alive.
5661 Palmer Way, Suite B Carlsbad
442-232-0528
More than a feeling, this is love for fine food.
Gourmet Italian Restaurant in our new location at Carlsbad Gateway Center. Our focused cuisine is from the Emilia Romagna region of northern italy. Home made pasta is our specialty with many other fine dishes offered. Our homemade recipes combine Northern & Southern culinary traditions. Our dishes are proudly handmade, for your daily meal, and for your special occasions.
5631 Palmer Way, Suite A, Carlsbad
760-994-0013
Imagine giving yourself a fresh start. Kicking bad habits, resetting your metabolism, dropping those extra pounds, and ultimately getting back to feeling great!
A San Diego native, Nastasha McKeon has been a vegan for many years. Her lifestyle choices have guided her education and career. McKeon previously worked as a nutritional consultant for local businesses and organizations, including Scripps Health’s Employee Wellness Program. She has also helped local restaurants implement plant-based menus. “Everything we do, from our food to our packaging, all has sustainability in mind,” says McKeon. “We just want to do our part in paving the way for other companies to follow suit and make more sustainable choices.”
One of our biggest goals at Choice has always been to show the World that you can eat healthy without compromising your tastebuds. We put your health first when we craft our recipes. Water is essential to life – everything else is a choice. Live Responsibly, Love Wholly – Eat Organic, Think Sustainably – Be Kind, Exercise Compassion…
Locally sourced, organically grown fruits and veggies delivered to San Diegans!
Our blended family started Daily Harvest Express with a passion for local farming and bringing fresh, deliciously natural food to the people in our community. We created our online farmers market as an efficient way to bring super fresh, natural food from farms in our own area to busy people who work all week and don’t have time to get to their farmer’s market. We saw the need to provide another outlet for local farms and artisans to sell their goods AND enhance wellness in the workplace by replacing traditional processed food with fresh, organic fruits and veggies.
5661 Palmer Way, Suite B Carlsbad
800-801-7210
Felix’s Creative Flavors is the perfect choice for any event where you want to impress your friends and colleagues. Choose from corporate lunch deliveries on-site barbecues or an elegant sit-down plated service.”Creative Flavors Catering” is influenced by the flavors of down-home southern cooking. With Felix’s Creative Flavors you’ll experience the best in soul food and southern hospitality. Give us a call or email us for more information and be a guest at your own party!
5661 Palmer Way, Suite C Carlsbad
442-500-8231
A biologist, a chemist, a creative writer, a gelato chef, a yoga teacher, a feng shui master, a screenplay editor, a business designer, a food director, a few pilots, a number genius, a techno geek, a surfer, a photographer. We are a team of creative GelatoLovers who believe in excellence and terrific food design. Nature is our essence, passion our nourishment and love our vitality.
Our roots are in Italy, where the 14th Century Renaissance produced an everlasting vision of food, art, architecture, design and beauty in every aspect of life. It was during this period that the contemporary concept of gelato was born. We are here to create a superlative dessert experience.
5611 Palmer Way, Suite B Carlsbad
858-449-4666
We are Mark and Rebekah Stogsdill, the husband and wife team that started Happy Pantry. We began selling pickles and other tasty fermented goods at farmers markets in and around San Diego County in 2010.
We saw something missing in the local food system and wanted to give our community access to the wonderfully delicious and incredibly healthy world of fermented products that we had become accustomed to enjoying at home. As fermentation became more and more mainstream, health practitioners and wellness gurus alike started using a new term that we hadn’t really heard before, “gut health”. As it turns out, not only are fermented foods (like sauerkraut and kimchi) and beverages (like kombucha and kvass) delicious, but they are also incredibly good for you. We ferment in small batches and are the only people to handle your products from start to finish. We produce, package, and ship directly to you from our small kitchen and not some giant warehouse.
Be Happy & Be well, Rebekah & Mark
5671 Palmer Way, Suite J Carlsbad
We met in circa 2012 we quickly learned we both LOVED playing with food and sharing new flavors with friends. It started with simple small dinners in Jasmine’s tiny apartment in Leucadia, Ca. We would sit around the table with our friends eating and sharing in joyful moments. We knew we had something special that we wanted to share with more people. The sauces became the star of the show, friends started requesting sauce to take home and that’s when our business was birthed.
Word got out that we had the liquid gold cheeze sauce, friends started sharing with other friends and deals started to go down in a back alley in Leucadia. We gained attention from local stores that were excited to carry our products. We built up momentum once we joined social media and local farmers markets. We are currently focused on the cheeze sauce but we have many new spreads and sauces to come. Stay tuned for the growth of Nomad Eats.
We love preparing food with our sauces. We have started to branch out as a mobile food vendor at local vegan community events so we could share the full experience of Nomad Eats. We want to share the joy of eating whole food plant based. Nomad Eats is about that little happy dance you do when you eat something delicious. Sometimes you eat food that is so good it makes you want to move your body and smile.
STAY SAUCY SAN DIEGO. EXPLORE NEW FLAVORS…
5661 Palmer Way, Suite G Carlsbad
This is why we’re sooooooo Kuhl….. Kuhl is German for, you guessed it… Cool! We Germans don’t use it in the same context but, this is California.
Plantiful-Kitchen is my company and we make great tasting, natural desserts and treats. All of our products are gluten free, vegan, and refined sugar free (we use coconut nectar, coconut sugar, and maple syrup – depending on the recipe). I believe in delicious and healthy. That’s our specialty.
We’re located in Carlsbad, CA, if you’re in the neighborhood, stop by! We’d love to meet you. Please let me know if you have any questions or requests.
Barbara
5611 Palmer Way, Suite C Carlsbad
760-703-1904
Meet the bread brothers—Carlsbad born and raised–Clinton and Louie Prager. Siblings with a shared passion for baking traditional, wholesome bread. Natural. Hand-shaped bread.
When you visit our bakery or our stands at the farmers’ markets you can expect bread that not only tastes delicious but also respects history and the environment. This is bread the way it used to be. Bread the way it ought to be.
With Clinton’s degree in music from U.C. Santa Cruz and Louie’s degree in plant biology from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, the pair has harmoniously combined their talents in art and science to craft a community bakery and a small retail bread shop.
Step inside…savor the aroma of their freshly-baked offerings…and step back in time.
5670 El Camino Real, Suite H Carlsbad
760-394-6044
Sam’s Kitchen was founded by San Diego native Sam Garcia in 2011 to provide home and professional catering in the North County area. Sam has been in the food/catering business since the year 2000 and she’s catered for weddings, local companies including renowned video game studios like High Moon Studios, and other corporate clients.
Along the way she’s developed a loyal following of customers who order from her home catering service each week. Sam has been catering out of a professional home kitchen for the past 10 years and now is bringing her expertise to her first restaurant. Sam loves to cook every kind of food – from Mexican, Greek, Italian, South American, and many others, but she has a special passion for creating her unique take on Mexican food.
Sam started her career in the year 2000 in this very deli when it was named Pickles Cafe & Deli and she’s now following her dream by taking the reins to bring her own take on Mexican American comfort food to Carlsbad.
