Bricks & Bowls

Bricks & Bowls has a slightly unusual origin story compared to most of its Park Avenue neighbors. It launched in 2020 as a virtual, delivery only concept from its parent company, Ghost Kitchen Orlando, before opening its first physical location at Millenia Mall in 2022. The Park Avenue location in Winter Park followed as part of that expansion, bringing the brand’s brick sized focaccia sandwiches and chef crafted superfood bowls to a storefront setting with actual seating rather than just delivery packaging.

The restaurant describes its food as superfood centric, chef crafted, and scratch made, and that framing lines up with a broader shift in what people are looking for on Park Avenue, a strip that has traditionally leaned toward richer, more indulgent Italian and American menus. Bricks & Bowls gives visitors an option built around lighter, more nutrient dense ingredients without feeling like a boring salad bar, since the focaccia sandwiches in particular give the menu some real substance.

The Winter Park location includes a welcoming, secluded courtyard, which is a nice detail on a strip where outdoor seating usually means a sidewalk table facing the avenue’s foot traffic. A tucked away courtyard gives guests a quieter option if they want to eat somewhere calmer than the busiest stretch of Park Avenue, while still being close enough to everything else on the avenue to make it an easy stop during a longer day out.

Lunch and dinner service runs seven days a week, which gives it a lot of flexibility compared to some of the more limited hour restaurants nearby. That consistency has made it a practical choice for a quick, healthier meal any day of the week, rather than something reserved for a special occasion. The company’s roots as a ghost kitchen concept also show in how efficiently the operation runs, since it was built from the ground up around fast, consistent execution rather than a traditional full service restaurant model.

For Park Avenue visitors looking for something lighter than the avenue’s typical Italian and American fare, Bricks & Bowls fills a real gap. It is locally based, having grown out of an Orlando area ghost kitchen operation rather than an outside franchise, and its expansion to a second Winter Park location at the Center for Health and Wellbeing shows a brand that has found real demand for its approach within the local area rather than treating Park Avenue as a one off outpost.