Sharx Wings & Grill

[jacksonvilleconfidential]

Theres a new wing place opening up in Riverside, click here for more info...

http://www.jacksonvilleconfidential.com/2008/08/sharx-wings-grill.html

[JeffreyS]

I hope they can make that location work. It seems to have been home to so many restaurants.

[jacksonvilleconfidential]

One of our readers went and had some pretty good things to say about the place

@you gota go there i ate chicken wrap it was huge plate +delicuos yamiiiiiii they got specials going on for 5.95 you get fries drink wings or any sandwich ilbe going there again to try there wings

Though honestly, Im not so sure that I will go based on that one response to our blog.

[The Compound]

One of our readers went and had some pretty good things to say about the place

@you gota go there i ate chicken wrap it was huge plate +delicuos yamiiiiiii they got specials going on for 5.95 you get fries drink wings or any sandwich ilbe going there again to try there wings

Though honestly, Im not so sure that I will go based on that one response to our blog.

Im not sure what it is, but $5.95 sounds like a great price for delicuos yamiiiiiii.

[jacksonvilleconfidential]

Well, the place is already for sale and i dont think its even been a month.

http://www.jacksonvilleconfidential.com/2008/10/sharx-wings-grill-for-sale.html

[David]

That location is cursed. Looks like the owners pulled a Nicky G's!

What is the reasoning behind spending money to open up a new restaurant and then selling it on craigslist? There's got to be something to it....

[jacksonvilleconfidential]

Yeah, i dont get it either.

Honestly, that place, the physical structure, is gross. It does look like they did quite a bit of cleaning in the kitchen, etc. but I vowed to never set foot in there again after the last time I went when it was Hot Rods. The place wreaked of raw sewage, no exaggeration.

[David]

I too, witnessed the horrors of hotrods once and only once. It smelt like dirty mop-water, the hamburgers made Krystals look  & taste like 5guys and yeah it basically felt like a refitted hardees. Maybe food just belongs on the other side of 95!

[jacksonvilleconfidential]

Looks like Sharx Wings has sold, and still open under the same name -

http://www.jacksonvilleconfidential.com/2008/11/sharx-wings-grill-sold.html


I still prefer Sharks Legs -

http://www.jacksonvilleconfidential.com/search?q=sharks+legs

[Ernest Street]

We have had too many restaurants around here that have a "SYSCO" menu.Anyone can tell homemade food from stuff out of 5 gal buckets. Sysco products are plastic and processed tasting like Cough..cough pizza palaces food.If you settle for mediocre taste that's what stays around here.

[copperfiend]

We have had too many restaurants around here that have a "SYSCO" menu.Anyone can tell homemade food from stuff out of 5 gal buckets. Sysco products are plastic and processed tasting like Cough..cough pizza palaces food.If you settle for mediocre taste that's what stays around here.

Unfortunately, that is the case for much of Florida. It seems the only authentic food you can get is at ethnic restaurants and the occasional local joint.

[ChriswUfGator]

I couldn't agree more!

Everything is friggin' Sysco around here, even the places that are allegedly "homemade" or "high end" (*cough* Bungalow on Park *cough* *cough*). There really are VERY few exceptions. Everybody has this pipe dream of opening a restaurant, buying the cheapest crap they can find, and then passing it off at the highest price possible and raking in the money.

I don't know how many of these places need to open and go under within a year before all the potential 'restauranteurs' around here will get a clue. The places that last are the ones that deliver a good product at a price commensurate with the experience you have when dining there. The price point of the restaurant doesn't really matter so much, as long as you're getting what you pay for in one way or another.

It's really such a simple concept, it boggles my mind how many people think they can fly in the face of basic of economics and get away with it.

[copperfiend]

I have a friend whose family owns some restaurants around town. I laugh when I see the magazines they get trying to sell generic food items to serve at their restaurant. Things like cheese sticks, jalapeno poppers, chicken fingers. And people buy that crap.

[jacksonvilleconfidential]

you guys need some cough drops.


but i concur, cough cough.....

[JaxNole]

There are some decent holes in the wall around town which just happen not to be chains.  I've found the most success by walking around neighborhoods and nearly walking by a mom-and-pop joint.  If only more people got out of their cars and walked neighborhoods we just may become less homogen(e)ous.

Haha.  I said "homo".