How Mesa Komal brings together food and community

This Is Nashville · Sep 19, 2022 · 43m

Earlier this month, Mesa Komal Cafe opened at Belmont University. The cafe is a unique partnership between Belmont, the hospitality company Sodexo and Conexión Américas that will feature chefs from the Mesa Komal culinary incubator program at Casa Azafrán on a rotating roster. First up: longtime chef and caterer Karla Ruiz.

For nearly a decade, the Mesa Komal program at Conexión Américas has provided work space in their commercial kitchen for food entrepreneurs, often connecting immigrant and first-generation small businesses with their first access to the kind of facility that enables them…