After only a year of operating out of its small shipping container space at Boxyard RTP, Lawrence Barbecue owner Jake Wood knew his highly acclaimed restaurant was outgrowing its small shipping container space at Boxyard RTP. And yet for roughly two and a half more years his team figured out ways to make things work in the small space, “bending over backwards to attack the volume we faced,” he says.
But a lack of space isn’t an issue he’ll have to contend with, for now at least. On September 19, Lawrence Barbecue reopened in its new space on Cedar Street in downtown Cary, an expansive 4,900 square-foot space that includes a large indoor dining and bar area, outdoor patio, and dedicated bathrooms, none of which the previous location had.
Wood had gotten several opportunities to move to a bigger space, but none felt like the right move. He says the opportunity for this new location in Cary “popped up,” but says the city was initially not on his radar…