When a community grows, the table grows too: Orlando's Kosher culinary boom

Drive down Sand Lake Hills today and you can feel it almost immediately: something has shifted. What was once a quiet pocket of Southwest Orlando has become a hub of Jewish life, activity, and — perhaps most visibly — food.

Over the past year, a new kosher marketplace opened just minutes from Orlando Torah Academy, joined by a rotating Chinese kosher pop-up and the continued success of Kosho Sushi, which has become a go-to destination not only for observant families but for kosher-curious diners across the city. On the surface, these are food stories. Underneath, they tell a much larger story...