**Norikawa **
The One Riverside growth options flats, a parking storage and shortly a brand new Entire Meals grocery retailer at 1 Riverside Avenue. Nonetheless, an thrilling new waterfront eating idea from Pearl Hospitality Group known as Norikawa will open in early 2026 and overlook the Riverwalk on the entrance of the brand new Emerald Path extension alongside McCoys Creek.
*Norikawa will function indoor and outside eating areas overlooking the St Johns River. *
The Pearl Hospitality Group is a division of the Bento Group, which operates practically 50 eating places all through Florida. Norikawa will supply conventional and fashionable Japanese delicacies, together with a high-end sushi program. The 4,149 sq. foot restaurant will even function 2,500 sq. foot of waterfront patio house for a refined al fresco eating expertise with views of the Downtown skyline.
*Darkish hues supply diners a complicated expertise at Pearl Hospality’s Norikase on Jacksonville’s Southside. Norikawa will supply the same vibe, however with an elevated waterfront setting. *
Norikawa will function a full bar program, targeted on premium sake and Japanese whiskey. Presently, the Pearl Hospitality Group operates Beachside Seafood Restaurant & Market, Izakaya Ko and Norikase in Jacksonville.
Alder & Oak
Additionally in Brooklyn, a mixed-used workplace and restaurant advanced is being constructed at 400 Riverside Avenue name The Hub Brooklyn. Southern Grounds Espresso-chain proprietor Mark Janasik plans to open a brand new idea right here known as, Alder & Oak. Alder & Oak will likely be a full-service eating venue that may supply native and coastal impressed wood-fired delicacies and Prohibition-style cocktails. The Hub Brooklyn is a $2.46 million challenge underneath growth on the intersection of Riverside Avenue and Forest Avenue. Alder & Oak will occupy roughly 2,600-square-feet of inside eating house and three,220-square-feet of coated open-air eating.
*Now underneath building, The Hub Brooklyn will function a Southern Grounds espresso store, workplace house and Alder & Oak. *
Oak Steakhouse
Presently underneath building within the historic Greenleaf & Crosby Constructing at 204 N Laura Avenue, Charleston, S.C.-based Indigo Highway Hospitality Group will open the eight location of their Oak Steakhouse idea by the tip of 2025.
The nook of Laura and Adams Streets is within the course of of reworking into the Oak Steakhouse.
Longtime Jaxsons could acknowledge this house of the previous Jacobs Jewellery storefront featured prominently on the nook of Adams and Laura Streets. Oak Steakhouse will function a menu that features Prime Licensed Angus Beef, a seasonally pushed menu that includes native and regional substances, and a world-class wine listing. Indigo Highway Hospitality Group presently operates O-Ku Sushi on the foot of the Jacksonville Seashore pier.
*Oak Steakhouse places in Charlotte and Nashville preview a glimpse of the house that’s underneath building in Downtown Jacksonville. *
The Greenleaf & Crosby Constructing was designed by architects Marsh & Saxelbye and in-built 1926 for the Greenleaf & Crosby Firm. Based by Damon Greenleaf and J.H. Crosby in 1880, the Greenleaf & Crosby Firm owned one of many metropolis’s earliest jewellery shops. The jewellery enterprise was renamed to Jacobs Jewellery after it was acquired by V.E. Jacobs in 1930. Thought-about one among Jacksonville’s oldest constantly operated companies, the shop closed in 2023 with the retirement of its final house owners, Roy and Delorise Thomas. Beneath building in the course of the bust of the Florida Land Increase, just one half of the ten story constructing was accomplished.
Ariete
Ariete Hospitality Group, a Miami-based and MICHELIN-starred restaurant group is opening a brand new idea within the Financial institution of America tower at 50 N. Laura Avenue. Work is about to start to remodel the ground-floor retail house on the nook of Laura and Bay Streets right into a 2,225 sq. toes Starbucks Espresso storefront. When that’s full, work will then start on the nook of Laura and Forsyth Streets to accompany a brand new diner and full-service bar from Ariete.
Lengthy hidden from pedestrian view, the previous foyer space on the Financial institution of America tower will quickly function two new retail areas that may absolutely combine with the sidewalks and add al fresco eating choices alongside Laura Avenue.
The Financial institution of America department situated within the constructing closed in early 2024, after working there for the reason that constructing was initially constructed for the previous Barnett Financial institution in 1990. Ariete Group will open an idea just like Chug’s Diner, a morning-noon-or-night eatery situated in Coconut Grove neighborhood south of Downtown Miami. The Jacksonville location will even remodel the previous financial institution counter to service a high-end bar program.
This is able to be the primary restaurant in Jacksonville operated by a MICHELIN-starred restaurant group.
A have a look at Chug’s Diner in Miami provides a preview of what’s to return for Downtown Jacksonville.
Zunzibar
Zunzibar is presently renovating the previous Burrito Gallery house within the Recent Market-anchored Brooklyn Station growth at 90 Riverside Ave. Based mostly in Savannah with further places in Hilton Head and Tybee Island, Zunzibar is a South African-inspired seashore bar.
Initially opened in the course of the 2005 Tremendous Bowl, Burrito Gallery served the Downtown marketplace for 20 years. The Adams Avenue location was rapidly backfilled by Dorothy’s Downtown, and now the Brooklyn location will likely be backfilled with a brand new restaurant group from Savannah.
The menu options seafood, wings and sandwiches served on French Bread. The sandwich choices function international flavors like Indian Curry Chili Hen, Curry Hen and Boerewors Sausage- a conventional South African sausage flavored with Coriander and Nutmeg.
*For the reason that demolition of the Jacksonville Touchdown in 2019, ordering approachably-priced seafood has grow to be tough Downtown. That may change when Zunzibar opens later this yr. *