Trichome Lounge Joins Lyndale's Wave of New Cannabis Businesses

Patrick Scott Stanley-Moore, a chef who left the restaurant business during the pandemic, runs Trichome Lounge at 3037 Lyndale Ave. S. as a paired retail shop and members-only event space. The retail side sells nonalcoholic and hemp-derived products aimed at the "California sober" movement, alongside kava, yerba mate, mocktails and coffee; the members' side centers on a mocktail bar that hosts movies, music, comedy, classes and burlesque, with plans for a 10,000-square-foot outdoor space.

"Wanting to get out of the restaurant industry because of Covid... I decided to take a leap into an industry that I believe is going to be booming — the California sober movement," Stanley-Moore told Voyage Minnesota, describing a pivot from the kitchen into a category that barely existed a few years ago.

Minnesota legalized adult-use cannabis in 2023, opening a class of retail and social venue that did not exist before, and commercial strips like Lyndale are among the first to absorb it. Trichome runs events Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 8 p.m. and has marked the anniversary of legalization with music nights and community gatherings.

For the corridor, the lounge is both an occupied storefront on a street with vacancies to fill and a new kind of tenant that changes who walks a block and when. How early operators behave as neighbors will shape how readily the category is accepted as it spreads, even as Lyndale braces for a coming reconstruction.