{"id":148381,"date":"2026-02-08T23:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148381\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T23:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:36:08","slug":"jacksonville-restaurant-flavorikan-hosts-benito-bowl-honoring-bad-bunny-ahead-of-super-bowl-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148381\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville restaurant Flavorikan hosts \u2018Benito Bowl\u2019 honoring Bad Bunny ahead of Super Bowl 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla.  \u2013 Super Bowl 60 is about to get underway, and whether fans are rooting for the Seattle Seahawks or the New England Patriots, one local business is focused on the halftime show and performer Bad Bunny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">News4JAX spent some time at an authentic Puerto Rican restaurant in downtown Jacksonville named Flavorikan ahead of kickoff, where the excitement is building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">At the local restaurant, the Super Bowl celebration is all about honoring Bad Bunny, with customers and staff rocking Bad Bunny attire, and the restaurant coining the event as \u201cThe Benito Bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">But the food is also a big part of the celebration. Flavorikan is serving a variety of Puerto Rican dishes, including mofongo, empanadas and pernil. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Check out their full <a href=\"https:\/\/flavorikan.com\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawP1wt9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFXUUx2eDlZSlFxNkVtcnNvc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsm-XtSE2HuNQdfksL_PE8W7PAYQF392zxb_wa-1XGYI0oUFX9DD-cbQNXKt_aem_S_oxQJwEOOgmOUgc9K_U6A#menu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/flavorikan.com\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawP1wt9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFXUUx2eDlZSlFxNkVtcnNvc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsm-XtSE2HuNQdfksL_PE8W7PAYQF392zxb_wa-1XGYI0oUFX9DD-cbQNXKt_aem_S_oxQJwEOOgmOUgc9K_U6A#menu\">menu<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Yaritza Edstrom, a Jacksonville native from Puerto Rico, said, \u201cJust to have those two worlds coming together, it\u2019s so important to have representation. It\u2019s just nice to be able to see someone that looks like me to be able to come from such humble beginnings to headlining the Super Bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Angel Borja added, \u201cI mean, I think he\u2019s so authentic to himself and to his culture and he\u2019s representing it and even with his language and he is not apologetic about that at all and I think that\u2019s an amazing thing to present to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">News4JAX wants to know how you plan on enjoying the Big Game this year. Send in pictures of your watch party or any other festivities you have going on tonight into SnapJAX to potentially have your picture air during our broadcast. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Super Bowl 60 is about to get underway, and whether fans are rooting for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16497,575,116,118,117,12769],"class_list":{"0":"post-148381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-bad-bunny","9":"tag-food","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","12":"tag-jacksonville-news","13":"tag-super-bowl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}