A Kawartha Lakes couple has expanded their pandemic-era online charcuterie business by launching Bobcaygeon’s newest Italian eatery.
Husband-and-wife team Kyle Wolsky and Danielle Malcolm opened the bricks-and-mortar location of Muster Point at 49 King Street East on Friday (April 12), offering hand-made focaccia sandwiches, take-home fresh pasta kits, barista coffee, smoothies, and the locally sourced charcuterie grazing boxes they originally launched online during the pandemic.
According to a media release, the couple welcomed hundreds of new and existing customers on their opening weekend, even selling out of all items early on Saturday.
“The Kawartha Lakes community has welcomed us with open arms since we first opened,” says Wolsky in the release. “To see that support continue with this new evolution of Muster Point is really heart warming.”
Before becoming entrepreneurs, Wolsky and Malcolm spent 10 years travelling and working in various restaurants, pubs, cafes, and eateries in British Columbia and Australia, Wolsky’s native country before he became a Canadian resident over a decade ago.
The couple relocated to Malcolm’s hometown of Lindsay in 2020, launching Muster Point in December of that year to offer delivery of locally sourced charcuterie grazing boxes.
“Both Kyle and I have spent years in the hospitality industry across Canada, honing our craft so that one day, we could open our own business, pouring our creativity and love into food we really believe in,” says Malcolm, a cheese and charcuterie connoisseur.
“To be living that dream just four years after starting our business is amazing, and we are so grateful to the community for the unprecedented support they have shown us, growing Muster Point into something we are immensely proud of.”
The couple, who were married in 2022, spent over a month in Italy last year, where they toured a variety of cities and regions including Genoa, Naples, the Amalfi Coast, and Tuscany. They enrolled in culinary classes specialized to each area, including making fresh bread and pasta.
“It’s so important to us that we make high-quality, delicious food, rooted in the traditions of each region,” Wolsky says. “It’s one thing to do your research and read about the things you’re making, but to learn from chefs to grandmas in Italy really took our knowledge to another level.”
Along with their new bricks-and-mortar location in the Old School House, Wolsky and Malcolm will continue to offer catering for events featuring “The Old Fashioned”, their vintage-inspired mobile food and bar trailer which could be seen at farmers’ markets across Kawartha Lakes last summer.
For more information on Muster Point, including the menu at the King Street East storefront, visit www.musterpoint.ca.
