All items need a minimum of two days prior to ordering. Our Breads and Pastries have no preservatives and have a shelf life of two days. All items are made to order and freeze exceptionally well.

Serving customers in Central Florida for over eight years. We take pride in the quality of our breads and pastries, using natural yeast starters and no preservatives. All of our products are baked daily at the bakery. 407.834.8881

Olde Hearth Bread Menu 

 

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Z-Coffee roasts rare and exceptional coffees from around the world, offering the finest quality and most unique coffees you can find. We roast all our coffees here in beautiful central Florida, using small batch roasters. 321.277.6271

 

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Trio Gelato & Desserts is Orlando’s happening home for delicious, fresh gelato and sorbetto. Using premium ingredients and lovingly making fresh batches by hand, we also provide gelato and sorbetto to local restaurants, businesses, and caterers throughout Central Florida. 407.841.7772

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Orlando Brewing is Florida’s only certified organic brewery. What does it mean to be organic? It means that ingredients used in crafting our ales are grown without insecticides, bioengineering, or irradiation. Our Blonde Ale has been officially certified Organic by the USDA. Our beers are the only ones declared “Fresh From Florida” by the State’s Department of Agriculture. You can taste the difference. 407.872.1117

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Winter Park Honey is all about quality. Each bottle of our honey has a unique flavor dependent on the nectar from local flowers. Our honey is harvested frequently to capture the delicate flavors of the seasonal nectars.

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Tom has been making sauces for decades. After winning an award for his original sauce, friends and family urged him to produce these products for you.

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Winter Park Dairy
Grazing in a pasture tucked between two subdivisions, the Jersey purebreds are fueling what their owner says must be the smallest dairy around, and the state’s only producer of raw cow’s-milk cheese.

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Growers of “The Best Tasting Tomatoes Money Can Buy.”  Our vine-ripened Beefsteaks will remind you of tomatoes picked from your own garden. Our tomatoes are grown hydroponically, in climate controlled greenhouses near Geneva, Florida to insure you the freshest, best tasting tomatoes outside of your garden.

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Aladdin’s Bakery
Aladdin’s Bakery carries delicious pita bread that is an excellent start to any Mediterranean meal. They are the most authentic pita baker in the state and luckily here in Orlando!

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Wise Acre Farm
A 20 acre piece of sandy Central Florida soil at the end of a bumpy dirt trail that barely qualifies as a road on any respectable map. Our scarlet queen turnips, cosmic purple carrots and sweet potatoes have been their consistent favorites.

March 24, 2007 - Orlando Sentinel
Slow Food makes case for local taste

To explain the concept of slow food it is somewhat easier to list the things it is not. It is not the notion that a meal should last two hours nor does it have anything to do with chewing your food more slowly.

It is not about consuming only foods that took several hours to prepare, and it isn’t a reference to lackadaisical servers.

But perhaps the most specific definition of what slow food is, is that it is not fast food. And to understand that, you have to know that proponents of slow food see fast food as being about more than just burgers and fried foods. In fact, slow food can be burgers and fried food. There are as many aspects to slow food as there are ingredients in a good stew.

The Slow Food movement traces its roots to 1986 when an Italian named Carlo Petrini railed against a McDonald’s, the proliferation of industrial food outlets and what he viewed as the standardization of taste: the annihilation of food varieties, including local produce and even some breeds of animals, and the loss of local foodways and dining customs that he saw as collateral casualties. Petrini gathered some like-minded friends and the movement was born. Today there are Slow Food organizations in 50 countries with more than 80,000 members.

Slow Food U.S.A., headquartered in Brooklyn, has given approval for a Central Florida chapter, or convivium. The local organization is being championed by people such as John Gabrovic, owner of Harmoni Market in College Park. He says the Orlando convivium will work as a conduit between restaurants such as his and local food producers such as Olde Hearth Bread Company in Casselberry, which produces artisan breads.

Julie Norris, owner of Dandelion Communitea Cafe in Orlando, says whenever she has a choice between a Florida product and one from another country, she’ll choose the local produce, even if it costs more. She says it isn’t always possible. “With produce, some things just don’t grow in this climate,” she says. But her cafe recently featured a menu of locally grown tomatoes, and Florida avocados are becoming available. Florida avocados have a different taste than the Haas variety found in supermarkets, but part of Slow Food’s mission is to preserve the tastes that are fading away. The organization has an Ark of Taste, a list of endangered food products that include such things as American artisanal cider and Florida cracker cattle. Foods that, in the words of the organization’s description, “have all ‘boarded’ the Ark to escape their most certain demise under the flood of industrial agriculture.” They are foods that are not completely gone and which the group hopes will not be forgotten.

Gabrovic says, “A secondary objective is to educate youth about the origins of their food.” He cites Fast Food Nation, the nonfiction book by Eric Schlosser, as an insight into the unseen consequences of mass-produced food. A movie based on the book was released in 2006. Schlosser will speak on the subject at 10 a.m. today at the Enzian Theater as part of the Florida Film Festival’s focus on slow food.

The movie Fast Food Nation, which is not being shown at the film festival, decries not only the issues of diet and nutrition that are associated with fast food products but also the consequences of mass-producing those foods in great volumes. This includes the sometimes inhumane treatment and production-line slaughter of animals, and the use of undocumented and untrained workers that can lead to unsafe working conditions and contaminated food.

But don’t assume slow food is synonymous with vegetarian or vegan, although, according to Rebecca Reis, another founding member of Orlando’s convivium, there will likely be many supporters of the movement from those communities. Instead it’s about “fair” food and what Slow Food U.S.A.’s slogan refers to as “the honest pleasures of food.”

Reis says another goal of the convivium will be to preserve the local food culture, which in Orlando means the culinary traditions represented by the Vietnamese, Hispanic and African-American communities.

The charter members of Central Florida’s Slow Food convivium realize there will be challenges. Gabrovic says the network of local suppliers doesn’t exist yet, and it would not be feasible for most Orlando restaurants to operate using only products that meet the Slow Food criteria. “And you don’t have the groundswell of locals demanding the product,” he says. But they plan to compile a list of local purveyors, farmers and artisans and then put them in touch with the restaurants that want to use their products.

Letting the dining public know it has a choice will hopefully create the demand. Spporters will know they’ve been successful when all fast food is slow food. Scott Joseph - Sentinel restaurant critic

October 28, 2005
Orlando Business Journal
by Bob Mervine - Staff Writer

COLLEGE PARK — When the upscale Wellesley condominiums in College Park open next spring, residents will be able to conveniently dine at several of the city’s better restaurants, all within walking distance of the seven-story residential and retail project at the intersection of Edgewater Drive and Smith Street.

Among the options: K Restaurant & Wine Bar, Taste, Juliana’s Fine Tuscan Cuisine and the Jade Bistro.
But research done by businessman John Gabrovic indicates proximity isn’t enough for the building’s upscale, active residents, who will pay from the mid-$200s to the $700s for one of the Wellesley’s 147 units. Gabrovic, one of the owners of the planned $1.2 million Harmoni Artisan Meal Market, which will be located in the building, says Wellesley residents want to take home, or even have delivered, the best of food and wine.

“We’re all about preparing and serving fresh tasting food for people in a hurry,” says Gabrovic.
To that end, he’s teamed with a group of entrepreneurs to launch an upscale bistro, wine shop and coffee bar, with a Mediterranean feel, designed to cater to residents of the building — and the neighborhood — with personal touches such as stoneware serving platters they will loan out when customers plan a party for guests, to give the food a made-at-home feel.

The 4,200-square-foot market, the first of what Gabrovic hopes will be a series of similar shops, will have three distinct areas: a wine and coffee bar, a bistro for dining in and a 2,300-square-foot retail area offering produce, an olive bar, spices, wine and takeout foods. The bistro will seat 50 people inside and 50 outside, with 12 seats at the bar.

With highly personalized service, premium ingredients and an imaginative menu, Gabrovic thinks the store will not only attract Wellesley residents, but the surrounding neighborhood when Harmoni opens next spring.

“We hoped to get open before that,” says Gabrovic. “But we’re part of the same certificate of occupancy, so we can’t open until the rest of the building is done.”

The idea for Harmoni took shape in 2002 when Gabrovic returned to Central Florida after spending 18 months in Krakow and Warsaw, Poland, where he started his own business. Along with his brother, Mark, a chef with a degree from Johnson & Wales, Gabrovic put together the concept for Harmoni, began developing vendors, worked on menus and, most importantly, found investors and partners, including Jason Varitek, a baseball player who is high school buddies with the Gabrovics; Christopher Swartz, CEO of Ultimate Franchise Systems Inc.; and retired restaurateur Chris Miliotes.

In preparation for their eventual opening in the neighborhood, the Harmoni team recently hosted a group of future residents and partners at the neighboring Taste restaurant, teaming with the Olde Hearth bakery and Stacole wines to offer a sample of the food, breads and wines they plan to offer.
That’s just the kind of businesses Wellesley developer Jim Kersey says he’s looking for in order to expand the retail base to provide his upscale residents — and the neighborhood — the best in quality and service. In addition to Harmoni, he says he’s dealing with businesses such as Lita’s Divine Creamery, a locally owned Lake Mary ice cream maker.

As for Gabrovic’s future plans, he says his firm is actively seeking other locations in Central Florida, both as a part of large condominium projects and, using a larger 6,000-square-foot design, in suburban locations where, he says, the economic model is actually better, although “this location provides us with lots of high-profile exposure.”

Adds Kersey, who was involved in the original Park Avenue Wine & Cheese store in 1973, “The Harmoni guys have hit the concept dead on for the environment and the neighborhood.”

October 20, 2006
Orlando Business Journal
by Bob Mervine - Staff Writer

ORLANDO — Although only open a little more than two weeks in College Park, big plans already are in store for the Harmoni Artisan Meal Market concept.

John Gabrovic, the market’s managing partner, says he is looking at adding as many as seven more locations of the combination restaurant, wine bar and gourmet market. Next to open is a second Harmoni in Maitland at a new retail center across from the RDV Sportsplex. That location, opening in 2007, will emphasize the restaurant and takeout food component, says Gabrovic.

Beyond that are a third market in the Ravina mixed-use project in Maitland, a fourth in The Rialto, another mixed-use project in south Orlando, and a fifth in the SoDo development on South Orange Avenue in Orlando.

Also in play is an acquisition that he can’t discuss, Gabrovic says — but one that could add additional Central Florida locations.

Says soon-to-be College Park resident Rick Walsh, a Darden executive who knows a thing or two about the food business, “I’m very optimistic for their success.”

The new Harmoni Artisan Meal Market is a $1.2 million, 4,200-square-foot, ground floor store located near the Wellesley, a seven-story, 147-unit building at the intersection of Vassar Avenue and Edgewater Drive.

Gabrovic, a perfectionist with a half-dozen years of restaurant experience, along with his brother, Mark, a chef, and a group of local investors developed the Mediterranean-style market concept and convinced Wellesley developer Jim Kersey they could offer both quality and convenience to the 11,000 residents that live within 1.5 miles of the market.

After opening Oct. 5, Harmoni has quickly caught on with the first few dozen residents in the new Wellesley building as well as nearby College Park residents, says Kersey.

“The street was busy. K (restaurant), next door, was hopping and so was Harmoni,” he says. “It’s a glimpse of the potential of the College Park district’s future.”

Gabrovic, who designed the 100-seat market to sell primarily takeout and gourmet groceries, says 60 percent of the business to date is sit-down dining, with some customers returning for a second meal in the same day.

Carmine Chirico, a lively, wiry Italian, is the store’s personality, answering questions and tracking down exotic foods. “Sure, we could use the local mozzarella and prosciutto,” he says, “but it’s not good enough.”

Menu items include pasta, flatbread sandwiches and plates antipasto.

Twelve wines by the glass from a cruvenet have led to wine sales by the case, Gabrovic says. Fresh kabobs in the meat case didn’t sell the first day, so they were cooked and repackaged — at a higher price — and sold out the next day.

“It’s all about the convenience,” Grabovic says. People are willing to pay for it.”

There is always something fun and educational going on at Harmoni Market!

Join us!

• Tuesdays - Tasty Tuesdays
  • Half-Price Select Bottles of Wine!
• Thursdays - Girls Night Out
  • From 4pm-8:30pm
  • Half-Price Drink Specials
  • Unique discounts by The Beauty Spot 
• Sundays - Sunday Brunch!
  • Buffet Brunch from 10pm-2:30pm
  • ONLY $19.99 - Kids $7.99
  • (A la Carte Menu is Available)
  • Omelets, French Toast, Eggs Benedict, Pancakes, Salads, Flatbreads, Fish, Pork, Desserts
  • 2 for 1 Infused Mimosa’s and Wine Specials
  • Live Entertainment by Greg Eyma

Book Your Next Event at Harmoni Market
Luncheons - Baby Showers - Bridal Showers - Birthday Parties - Rehearsal Dinners

Contact us directly at 407.206.0033 or Book a Private Event

We pride ourselves on hosting successful and entertaining events. Nothing brings us more joy then to see a smile on your face upon conclusion. “Harmoni hospitality” means going above and beyond to exceed your expectations in a friendly, comfortable and unpretentious way. Big event or small, let us bring the Harmoni Experience to you.

A charity event held for the launch of Slow Food Orlando!

 

Jazz. Food. Wine. Art. Friday, June 22, 2007; 6:00PM-8:00PM Who: Harmoni Market and K Restaurant(food provided by) Wine and Beverage by: Stacole Fine Wines, Premier Beverage, Opici Wines, Augustan Wines, Orlando Brewing Co., Sysco Proceeds Benefit: Lighthouse of Central Florida and Slow Food Orlando Sponsors: Select Magazine,Orlando Leisure, Guest List, WLOQ Smooth Jazz, Orlando Weekly, My City Eats Magazine

 

A real estate professional appreciation night! The first Monday of every month beginning at 6:00pm! First drink on us and light appetizers for the evening! Each month is different email Megan at metropolis@cfl.rr.com.

 

Allow us to customize your next catering event! Big or small - You relax, and we’ll do the rest! 407.647.4300 x 236.

 

WE is a women-only referral group that aims to promote women doing business with women within the community. For those wanting to become more involved in the community, WE aims to become a recognizable organization making a difference for the betterment of life and business. WE meets every 2 weeks for lunch, learning, and relationship building. WE allows only one representative from each industry. Thank you for selecting Harmoni Market for you WE meetings!

 

Allow Harmoni Market to coordinate your next event…Bridal Shower, Baby Shower, Birthday Party or Dinner Party!

 

Every Sunday Harmoni Market does a Delectable Buffet Brunch beginning at 10:00am-3:00pm featuring Live Entertainment by the Fabulous Greg Eyma from 11:30am-2:30pm. This unforgettable Brunch will only cost you $19.99/person and $7.99 for children 10 and under! Take advantage of our two for one mimosas! All you need to bring is your appetite! Viva Bene!

 

A family reunion at Harmoni Market for some of our Loyal Guests! Thank you for choosing Harmoni! For your next event please contact Jaime Niemann jniemann@harmonimarket.com or call 407.206.0033.

 

Join us in College Park every Saturday from 9am-1:00pm on Edgewater and Vassar for Fresh Produce, Florida Seafood, Fresh Breads, Local Coffee and Honey, Delicious Gelatos, Arts and Crafts and MUCH MORE!

 

Harmoni Market hosts monthly wine tastings that you do not want to miss out on. Call 407.206.0033 for the NEXT wine tasting!

 

 

College Park: Friday Night Flights
September 28, 2007 6-8 PM
Corner of Vassar St. & Edgewater in College Park

Harmoni Market and K Restaurant Wine Bar have joined (again) to produce the second wine, jazz, food and art event called College Park: Friday Night Flights to benefit Lighthous