{"id":184246,"date":"2026-03-09T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184246\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:14:08","slug":"another-loss-downtown-bellwether-restaurant-is-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184246\/","title":{"rendered":"Another loss Downtown: Bellwether restaurant is closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bellwether, a Downtown Jacksonville dining spot and frequent site of meetings among Jacksonville business and political figures, announced it will close at the end of March.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Insetta, whose Jacksonville-based restaurant group includes Orsay in Avondale and the former Black Sheep Restaurant in Five Points, opened Bellwether in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/01\/28\/intuition-ale-works-closing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Intuition Ale Works closing<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant at 117 W. Forsyth St. serves lunch and dinner with a menu that includes soups and salads, burgers and sandwiches, steak and Asian-inspired dishes such as Korean short rib and kimchi tots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/mar\/09\/another-downtown-loss-bellwether-announces-it-will-close-at-end-of-march\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story<\/a> at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a Jacksonville Today news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bellwether, a Downtown Jacksonville dining spot and frequent site of meetings among Jacksonville business and political figures, announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-184246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184246","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=184246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}