Heather H

Great place to check out and mark off in your National Park Passport books! Lots of history in those walls!!

We had a good visit to the zoo with our 19 month old granddaughter! She enjoyed it, I on the other hand, was a little disappointed. I just think for the price of admission, and not to mention having to pay to park, the zoo was kind of boring. The girl at the concession where we purchased drinks was rude, and the fact that although our granddaughter was free, we had to buy tickets just to stand by her on the carousel, was a little greedy! We were able to get through the zoo in 2-3 hours, which was nice considering the age of our granddaughter! I do think for future zoo visits, we will probably visit another zoo!

First off, let me say that the atmosphere of this cute little place was exceptional, as was the service!! We ate out front on the patio, which was lovely! Our super sweet server, named Peyton, was excellent! Very friendly, informative and always checking in with us periodically to see if we needed anything. We tried several dishes while dining here. We had the whole chicken(which consisted of 8 pieces: 2 breasts, 2 wings, 2 drumsticks and 2 thighs), spoon bread with maple butter, fries with aioli, and the biscuits with blackberry jam and honey butter. Let’s start with the chicken, it was juicy and tasted good. I wouldn’t say it was extraordinary, I’ve had way better, but it was good. The spicy honey that was served alongside was pretty tasty though! The spoon bread was good. Of all the recipes I’ve seen for spoon bread though, it’s more of a soufflé type texture. This was more typical cornbread texture, but the kicker was that it had celery in it…who does that??? Kinda ruined it for me after finding that in my next bite! The maple butter was delicious though!! The fries with their seasoning were delicious. Didn’t much care for the aioli…it was much too strong tasting. The winning dish of the whole dinner was the biscuits and the blackberry jam!!!! Those were fabulous!! Could’ve done without the honey butter, it was not very good, and neither was their regular butter. Not sure what they were using, but they might want to change that. My hubs had two local craft beers that he liked; the 50 West, and the Sonder You Betcha! Definitely try this place out, especially if you love fried chicken! Very cool place!!

Only got to snap a couple of outside pics, but was delighted to see the legendary theatre!

Beautiful little park with an amazing old oak tree! It was raining when we arrived, so we couldn’t explore, but still managed to get some nice pics! A must visit place if you are in the Jacksonville area!!