Gabriel’s Gourmet Cafe started small. Like, really small. Think food truck without wheels small. That doesn’t mean we didn’t have big ideas—you don’t have to be big to think big—but we weren’t big then. Anyway, small or not, people liked what we were doing enough and pretty soon, we were busy all the time, and then before we knew it we were busy enough to think about growing into something bigger, which is generally what you want to do. We started looking around and soon landed at this place for sale on Commercial Street. It was a big move—from 200 square feet to 1,600—which I’m sure you can tell is quite a bit bigger, but we knew that we could make it work. Most of all, we knew we could do something special, something that wasn’t being done anywhere in Nanaimo.
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