Lexington Market will display three new stalls this spring, all featuring minority ownership.
Crunch Kulture, BMore Twist and Habibi Kitchen will be added to the market featuring healthy options for Baltimoreans.
Family-owned and Black-owned Crunch Kulture will offer salads, wraps and a build-your-own salad bar. Women-owned BMore Twist will offer a spin on pretzels, and minority-owned Habibi Kitchen will have Mediterranean halal options, including falafel and kabobs.
According to Brooke Bachman, leasing manager for Baltimore Public Markets and Lexington Market, the addition of these stalls helps the market focus on fostering economic empowerment while expanding Black-owned, women-owned, minority-owned and resident-owned businesses within the city.
Crunch Kulture’s founders, husband and wife duo Charles Miller and Kristian Knight-Miller, have another stall featured in Lexington Market called Sunnyside Cafe. There, they focus heavily on brunch-style dishes.
Charles Miller says Crunch Kulture, will showcase fast-paced servicing compared to their cafe, providing customers with vibrant foods that he hopes will create a culture around healthy eating.
Having owned and operating Sunnyside Cafe for 13 years, Crunch Kulture will be an extension of their family-owned and operated businesses, Charles said. The two have embarked on their individual health journeys which made creating the salad bar an easy decision, he said.
According to Charles, they wanted the healthy eating experience to be fun and not, as his son would put it “eating grass.” This will be displayed with their signature salads, out-of-the-ordinary combinations and homemade dressings.
“Hopefully, we create a culture around it where people continue to come, have fun, eat healthier and enjoy it,” he said.
Charles, alongside his mother, will be leading the daily operations of Crunch Kulture, while his wife Kristian continues overseeing business at the cafe.
Crunch Kulture and BMore Twist are currently working on the build-up process, aiming to open by March, Bachman said. Habibi Kitchen is slated to open mid-February.
Habibi Kitchen and Crunch Kulture will sit beside each other on the upper level, with BMore Twist on the lower level near the Eutaw Street entrance.
The addition of the three stalls adds to the market’s current leasing percentage of 93%, Bachman said.
Bachman said they are still focusing on recruitment for the market, aiming to add three more stalls in the near future.
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