The Thrillist: Jax is actually getting cool again

[dp8541]

  And although I do like Blue Bamboo, sending potential tourists to a service road on southside blvd is not what these articles are looking for.  This is why they stick to urban neighborhoods like san marco, riverside and springfield. 

I hate Blue Bamboo's location too, but chef Dennis is doing tons for Jacksonville and I'd love to see him get more recognition. 

I would love for DVI and DIA to work with local vendors to set up a food hall or other cluster of the best food Jax has to offer and you could pull most of them from the Beach Blvd area.  Gang Nam Korean, Kathy's Bakery, Karam's, Balkan Cafe, & Marianas Grinds.  Throw some local brewers in the mix, a potato, and baby, you've got a stew going.

Ive linked this on the landing thread a few weeks back, but Armature Works in Tampa is my ideal vision for the Landing.  They could even use the current structure as is (would take some significant inside reno, but that is certainly easier than tearing down and building new).  Armature works has about 10 food hall options, all run by local Tampa chefs (sushi, sandwiches, juice bar, coffee bar, bar bar, bbq, wood fired pizza, etc.) as well as two fixed spaces for full service restaurants (one up and running now, one coming soon).

Jax definitely has the culinary talent to fill at least 10 spaces inside the landings current food court / shopping areas and this would still allow the full service restaurants (Hooters, McCools, etc.) to operate along the boardwalk as they currently do.

http://armatureworks.com/heights-market/

[Tacachale]

Well, at least we can thank that magnanimous Orsay guy for tricking us backward yokels into eating pork belly.

That annoyed me almost as much as the Chainskokers thing. Pork belly is fucking bacon.

[I-10east]

I'm late to this when the JaxsonMag switch. This damn BS made me angry. Where do I begin?

The article said that Jax is "Deeply conservative". I guess that "deeply conservative" means that you don't have to worry about dodging feces and drug needles, not drinking a Big Gulp and using your plastic straw because of the municipal nanny state, no dodging piss bottles and punches from Antifa, and blocked off bridges and streets from BLM (both Soros funded operations) no open air drug markets, no large scale urban homeless encampments, no safe spaces, and no not having the ability of defending yourself.

Jax almost feels like an apolical city (and that's a good thing). No constant politics being shoved down my throat (and when it is, it's usually from the left). People got mad when I said that Jax is a centrist city on another post. For the most part, I feel free to chose whatever politics I want here; whereas most of the urban West Coast (esp Seattle, Portland, San Fran, LA) you know that you are in peer pressured liberal hell, or heaven depending your perspective.

[Bill Hoff]

I'm late to this when the JaxsonMag switch. This damn BS made me angry. Where do I begin?

The article said that Jax is "Deeply conservative". I guess that "deeply conservative" means that you don't have to worry about dodging feces and drug needles, not drinking a Big Gulp and using your plastic straw because of the municipal nanny state, no dodging piss bottles and punches from Antifa, and blocked off bridges and streets from BLM (both Soros funded operations) no open air drug markets, no large scale urban homeless encampments, no safe spaces, and no not having the ability of defending yourself.

Jax almost feels like an apolical city (and that's a good thing). No constant politics being shoved down my throat (and when it is, it's usually from the left). People got mad when I said that Jax is a centrist city on another post. For the most part, I feel free to chose whatever politics I want here; whereas most of the urban West Coast (esp Seattle, Portland, San Fran, LA) you know that you are in peer pressured liberal hell, or heaven depending your perspective.

Jax is political leadership is certainly Right, not centrist. The citizenry itself is more politically diverse.