College Park's Next Edgewater Drive Is Moving Into the Old One's Buildings

"Thank you for every class you took, every basket you sent, every recipe you carried home, and every meal you shared with the people you love." Marci Arthur wrote that in her farewell to Truffles and Trifles, the cooking school she opened in March 1986, as reported by Bungalower. The school will close at the end of 2026.

The same week, Pizza Bruno's College Park location was scheduled to serve its last pizzas, and an excavator started tearing down a 1920s building at 1710 Edgewater Drive. Edgewater Drive renews itself by handing old rooms to new operators. A pizza kitchen becomes a cheesesteak kitchen. A convenience store becomes a needlepoint shop. A coffee drive-thru becomes an Italian deli. This season only one address is losing its building outright.

A cooking school that already moved twice

Truffles and Trifles shows how far back this habit goes. According to Bungalower, the business first opened at 1308 Edgewater Drive, selling specialty foods and gourmet gift baskets alongside cooking classes. It later moved farther north on Edgewater, then settled at its longtime home at 711 W. Smith Street.

Over four decades, the school hosted cooking classes, date nights, celebrations and corporate events. Arthur was inducted into the Orlando Sentinel's inaugural Culinary Hall of Fame in 2008. In her farewell she also thanked her staff, especially Rachida Berji and her family.

The school is still running classes and holiday parties through its final weeks. It hasn't set a closing date, and the remaining class schedule is on trufflesandtrifles.com. For anyone who has meant to take one more class there, this December is the last chance.

The handoff, address by address

The cooking school is the oldest change on the list. Most of the others are newer businesses taking over a space someone else built.

Several of these moves keep the old building's main feature. When Vinicius Turci and Nathalia Kalil announced they were moving Turci Panino into the former Dunkin', Bungalower reported that the drive-thru would stay and the shop would become Turci Italian Deli, open daily from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. In September, the opening was projected roughly six months out.

The Black Sheep made a similar move. Co-owners Cynthia Brumback and Leigh Ann Horton bought the needlepoint business in 2025 and are relocating it to the former 7-Eleven at 1500 Edgewater. By early September, exterior work was underway.

Olea Taverna, which opened over the summer in the former Local Bar and Grill space, is the most recent example of a restaurant changing hands in place. Its proprietor, Nazih Sebaali, is also behind Meza Mediterranean Grill and Grazie Modern Italian Kitchen.

One pizza kitchen hands off to another

The swap at 2429 Edgewater shows the pattern most clearly. Bruno Zacchini is consolidating at his original Pizza Bruno at 3990 Curry Ford Road, which stays open. Pacchioni's Cheesesteaks & Pizza is moving into the roughly 1,500-square-foot College Park space.

Pacchioni's started as a food truck in February 2025. Daniel Pacchioni developed its globally inspired Philly cheesesteaks with chef Mike Collantes of Soseki and Sushi Saint. The K-Drama comes with bulgogi glaze and kimchi, and the Island Spice uses Jamaican jerk seasoning and curry aioli. For the Edgewater restaurant, Pacchioni is partnering with Yeosh Bendayan and Jon Ruhff.

The space will keep making pizza, but a different style. Pacchioni told Orlando Weekly that his pizzas won't follow Bruno's Jersey-style approach and will mix styles and international influences instead. The cheesesteaks will be served on freshly baked rolls. The restaurant is targeting early December, and the @pacchionisfl account is where opening updates will appear.

1710 Edgewater is the one address losing its building

The building now coming down at 1710 Edgewater had been handed from tenant to tenant for decades. Bungalower notes that the 1920s structure housed Nonna and JoAnn's Chili Bordello before chef Kevin Fonzo opened K Restaurant there in 2010. K stayed until January 2020.

Nearly seven years after K closed, the site is being cleared. City of Orlando planning records include a 2021 proposal called Starbucks at Edgewater for 1710 and 1720 Edgewater Drive. That plan called for demolishing three buildings and building a 2,900-square-foot Starbucks. In April 2024, city planners said it was unclear whether the project would move forward.

Every other address in the table keeps its walls and gets a new sign. At 1710, the next business will start from an empty lot.

Dec. 3 puts the whole handoff on one walk

College Park Main Street's Holiday on the Drive runs Thursday, Dec. 3, from 5 to 9 p.m. Admission is free. The evening includes kids' activities, an artisan vendor village, music, Santa, shops staying open late, and restaurants and food trucks along the street. Edgewater Drive will be closed from Smith Street to Winter Park Street from 1 to 11 p.m. that day. Parking will be limited, and organizers are encouraging residents to bike or walk.

Truffles and Trifles sits on W. Smith Street, the same street that marks one end of the closure. That puts the school's last holiday season right next to the neighborhood's biggest December night. The rest of the season runs on a short calendar:

1. Nov. 26: Dubsdread Golf Course holds its annual Turkey Shoot.
2. Dec. 3, 5 to 9 p.m.: Holiday on the Drive fills Edgewater Drive.
3. Early December: Pacchioni's targets its opening at 2429 Edgewater Drive.
4. End of 2026: Truffles and Trifles closes after its final classes and holiday parties.

If you're shopping for gifts that night, Millie's Swedish Candy Company at 2529 Edgewater now stays open until 6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, which gives early arrivals a little time before the street closes to traffic. Olea Taverna opened over the summer, so this is its first holiday season on Edgewater.

The street itself is next in line

The buildings are turning over first, and the road is scheduled to follow. The City of Orlando's Edgewater Drive Complete Street Project covers the corridor from Lakeview Street to Par Street. It adds wider sidewalks, decorative lighting and landscaping, starting with a roundabout at Lakeview Street. The city's timeline calls for awarding that first segment's contract this winter, starting construction in early 2027, and reaching substantial completion in winter 2027. The businesses moving into Edgewater's older buildings this year will be operating on a street under construction. Truffles and Trifles has spent four decades on and near Edgewater, and its run ends before the new street does.

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