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It becomes the second Maple Street location in Gainesville.

2, about 10 months after plans were announced that a new location was coming.

The restaurant, at 140 SW 128th St., Building 5, Suite D, officially opened Aug. Maple Street Biscuit Company has officially opened a Gainesville location in Tioga Town Center.

Kevin’s Kitchen will hold its grand opening Friday at 11 a.m.

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The restaurant will offer side items like, collard greens, mac and cheese, beans, black-eyed peas, fried okra, rice and skillet cake, which is like corn bread, Sommons said.įor dessert, it’ll offer sweet potato pie, he said. He said the restaurant’s menu items offer plenty of soul food favorites like ribs, fried or barbecued chicken, fried or smothered pork chops, catfish and chicken wings. Sommons, who is originally from Gainesville, said after working 25 years as a chef, he felt it was time to try out owning his own restaurant.Īt Kevin’s Kitchen, Sommons will serve as owner and chef. There’s not a lot of soul food restaurants here,” he said. “It was my cousin's idea for me to come back to Gainesville and open up a restaurant and serve some soul food. 1, serves what restaurant owner Kevin Sommons, 46, calls “Southern cuisine,” or soul food, he said. Kevin’s Kitchen, 2201 NE 2nd St., which held its soft opening Aug. Friday and Saturday.Ī Hawthorne resident has opened up a restaurant which serves up food he felt Gainesville was lacking. The restaurant has a presence in 19 states and eight countries. Since then, the company’s base has moved to Atlanta, which Friedman now calls home. “We had to beg for forgiveness,” Friedman joked. The campus operation eventually got shut down, Friedman said. Yonge High School baseball player, Conrad Shelton, is the store’s new owner.įriedman and Scott were in Gainesville Wednesday 25 years after they started business in their Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house while at the University of Florida.įriedman told The Sun in a 2017 interview that the duo handed out flyers and sold wings on campus. It will also serve desserts like Oreo churros, fried Twinkies and funnel cake fries. In addition to its wings, the new restaurant will serve quesadillas, salads and side items like fried pickles and onion rings. The WZ Eats features a remodeled interior with added seating and an updated menu. “It was important to us that if Wing Zone was founded Gainesville, Florida, that we were able to say WZ Eats started in Gainesville, too,” Scott said.

The former West University Wing Zone is the first in the U.S. “We love our history of Wing Zone and opening up over 140 restaurants but we really believe our future is with WZ Eats.”Īll new stores launched in the future by the duo will be named WZ Eats, Friedman said. “We’re a place you can come for lunch, eat healthy, or be a little bad if you want,” Friedman said. The duo said in a phone interview Thursday that after taking a step back, they realized the brand “Wing Zone” didn’t work in all markets because the “wing” in its name made people associate the brand with wings only, when the restaurant offers more than just wings to eat. The West University Wing Zone location, the chain’s first, has been rebranded as WZ Eats, a concept created by founders and University of Florida graduates Matt Friedman and Adam Scott. Here’s a roundup of restaurant news around Gainesville.Īfter 25 years, the former Wing Zone on West University Avenue has gotten a completely new look - and name.

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