The Current Journey – Laurie has established a venture with The Marketplace on Locust in downtown Hendersonville, NC. It’s part of the historic downtown area off of 7th Avenue that is being revitalized. There are two breweries, a pasta shop, a wonderful bakery, and more.
With ample space, Laurie specializes in retail for all your entertaining needs, any gift-giving for all ages, including men and women, top food products, and lots of furniture geared towards your entertaining, dining, and kitchen spaces. She started this new space for her love of food, her love of all things kitchen, and entertaining with family and friends.
Laurie loves the thrill of researching and finding the best products, whatever the category, for her customers. So you will find at Laurie Bakke’s Kitchen the highest quality brands and products I have chosen for the space.
She would say her niche is finding the best quality for the best price! I love to carry local, regional, and from the USA. She continues to share her love of food, family, friends, and gardening! It will be worth your time to come and visit Laurie!
The Past Journey – Attending culinary school in the 1990s at Asheville-Buncombe Technical College was a way for Laurie to truly hone her love of cooking and appreciation for it as an art form.
Laurie Green Bakke made her mark in Hendersonville, NC, when she opened Cafe Laurie in 2002. For six years, her restaurant embodied a fresh, fast gourmet-to-go style that quickly caught on and established Laurie Bakke and Cafe Laurie as a unique addition to the culinary world.
After selling Cafe Laurie, she wrote a self-published cookbook called Laurie Bakke’s Kitchen. It is available for sale in my space. This led Laurie to open a boutique Kitchen and Wine shop for a retail place to sell the cookbook and more, which She has sold.
She had no idea that it would be the start of a career that spanned her time as an Executive Sous-Chef at Highland Lake Inn, restaurateur, restaurant and food consultant, cooking class instructor, owner of a wine and kitchen shop to now being a retail maven.