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Laura Molinar started out selling her baked goods on the fly. “I would set up wherever they would let me,” she says. For years, she baked in her home kitchen, then would pop up in Deep Ellum or the Bishop Arts. Cupcakes or cookies dominated the menu, often with Japanese kawaii influences.
It was by chance that a customer told her about a bakery space in Dalworthington Gardens. The current tenant needed someone to take it over, and she was starting to consider a more permanent arrangement. She was busy and couldn’t have a conversation at the time while manning her pop-up. Her mom got his card, but then she lost it…