Deep Brewing expands into full hospitality destination in Tallahassee

Deep Brewing’s old taproom on the way to something bigger had always hinted at ambition, but the new place at 2855 Pablo Ave. made that ambition impossible to miss. Deep Brewery & Kitchen opened as a more than 5,000-square-foot hospitality buildout, a sharp leap from the roughly 800-square-foot original home up the street.

The move changed the business as much as the address. Deep, founded in 2015 from Ryan S. LaPete’s homebrewing experiments, now operated Wed.–Sun. with a full-service restaurant and kitchen, about 50 staff members across the bar, brewery, restaurant, and kitchen, and a menu built to catch people at more than one hour of the day. The brewery’s own site described it as a craft brewery + kitchen, with rotating craft beer, wine, cocktails, chef-driven food, Wing Wednesday specials, and weekend brunch.

That broader menu has been one of the clearest signs that Deep is no longer treating food as an accessory to beer. Outboard, the Southern breakfast and brunch concept inside the tasting room, brought coffee and brunch into the building five mornings a week, with online ordering aimed at people who want a quick breakfast stop as much as a pint. Deep’s menu page now promotes weekend Brunch by Outboard, and Outboard’s own description places it inside the tasting room at Deep Brewing on Centerville Road.

The entertainment side grew just as dramatically. The new venue added a 280-inch screen and seven additional large TVs, a major contrast with the old location’s two televisions. That kind of setup pushes Deep further toward the full-day destination model, where a brewery can host a brunch crowd, an afternoon beer crowd, and a game-day crowd without asking any one of them to carry the whole business.

Deep also made room for private events, including partial taproom rentals and full-facility options on select days, a sign that the building was designed to work harder than a standard production taproom. Tallahassee had already marked Deep as the city’s third-oldest brewery in 2024, and the Pablo Avenue expansion showed how a homegrown beer brand can grow by widening its lane instead of narrowing it. In Tallahassee, Deep no longer just poured beer. It built a place that tried to own the whole day.