Brooklyn Commons: 'Top Chef' winner Kevin Sbraga's restaurant to open this fall

[thelakelander]

By Karen Brune Mathis, Managing Editor

Brooklyn Commons, the new Jacksonville restaurant to be run by Philadelphia "Top Chef" Kevin Sbraga, should open this fall at 220 Riverside.

"It will be a real asset to Jacksonville to have a signature chef come down and do a restaurant in Jacksonville," said architect Jason Faulkner of Studio 9 Architecture. He expects an autumn completion.

River City Contractors Inc. will renovate space at the new 220 Riverside mixed-use apartment and retail community in the Brooklyn area. Plans show a $1.74 million construction job to build-out a 6,650-square-foot space.

The space will provide a restaurant, private dining, lounge, bar and raw bar as well as terrace dining.

Developer NAI Hallmark Partners announced almost a year ago that Sbraga, the winner of Bravo TV's "Top Chef" in 2010, would open at 220 Riverside.

Full article: http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=545661

[downtownbrown]

More good news.  Add Kenny Gilbert's plan to open an updated southern themed restaurant next to Florida Theater.  Makes you wonder if downtown just might turn around organically. 

[MusicMan]

"Raw bar" is the new black.