Seven years after becoming Florida’s first cannabis cafe, Seed & Bean Market added a third location — and another first — with a cannabis cafe that also holds a full liquor license.
Owner Cole Peacock said the path to expansion has been challenging, requiring the team to navigate regulatory hurdles while also addressing public perceptions about what the concept represents.
Seed & Bean Market, he said, is not centered solely on cannabis, but on healthy food and locally roasted coffee.
Seed & Bean Market opened its newest location at The Cove at 47th in Cape Coral, marking the company’s third Florida cafe and its first to feature a full liquor license.
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“We have no grease traps,” Peacock said. “Everything we have fried is air fried. It’s an industrial air fryer. It’s like one you have in your home but supersized.”
The Cape Coral location opened with a soft launch in mid-December at 4720 SE Ninth Place, Suite 300, as part of The Cove at 47th’s emerging restaurant row. Oak & Stone and Big Nick’s BBQ have already opened there, with Aqua slated to follow.
Seed & Bean Market first opened in downtown Fort Myers in 2019 in a roughly 1,200-square-foot space. A second location followed in Venice in 2022. The Cape Coral restaurant is more than twice the size of its predecessors, offering about 2,600 square feet of indoor dining space plus a 1,200-square-foot backyard patio.
“The dining scene in Cape Coral is really rising with the population growth,” Peacock said. “And this is a killer location.”
Seed & Bean Market owner Cole Peacock stands inside the Cape Coral cafe, which opened in December after a roughly $1 million buildout at The Cove at 47th.
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The cafe serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, with a focus on coffee.
“People really like our coffee,” Peacock said. “It’s brewed by Java D’oro Gourmet Coffee Roasters, right here in Cape Coral. From the beginning, that’s been one of our focuses.”
None of Seed & Bean Market’s standard menu items contain cannabis-derived products. Customers can choose to add hemp-derived options if they wish, but the base menu focuses on clean, natural and organic foods prepared without grease to create a more health-conscious dining experience.
“If you want, you can add CBD, you can add THC from hemp-derived products,” Peacock said.
Peacock said about $1 million was invested in building out the Cape Coral space. Since opening, customer response has been strong.
Coffee, hemp-derived beverages and beer are among the offerings at Seed & Bean Market’s new Cape Coral location, which combines a cannabis cafe concept with a full-service bar.
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The location also is serving another first: Caloosa Kush Hazy Hemp IPA, billed as the first federally approved hemp beer on draft. The beer is brewed in partnership with Brew Theory, an Orlando-area brewery.
“We have Caloosa Kush, which is the first federally-approved hemp beer,” Peacock said. “We worked with the federal level for about nine months. We had to submit the recipe and did the testing. Now there’s an actual hemp division with beer.”
Menu offerings include breakfast items, such as bacon Brussels sprouts hash ($13.50), French toast ($15), Eggs Benedict ($17.50) and omelets ($17.50-$18.50); lunch options, including a veggie burger ($20), grilled chicken teriyaki Philly panini ($18.50), blackened shrimp po’ boy ($20) and Green Goddess turkey burger ($20); and dinner selections, such as grilled bone-in pork chop ($24), Joyce Farms grilled chicken breast ($22), brown butter seared salmon ($30) and roasted sweet potato and spinach pesto pasta ($18).