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After 21 years in business at its old location in St. Augustine Beach, Purple Olive will open its doors Friday in the former Gypsy Cab Co. space<\/a> on Anastasia Island.<\/p>\n The new restaurant will include a menu combining Purple Olive\u2019s offerings from over the years and some old Gypsy Cab Co. favorites.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a big change for co-owners Peter Kenney and Kristen White, as the new space will provide double the seating of their previous location.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are super excited about it,\u201d White says. \u201cIf you\u2019re familiar with St. Augustine, finding the right real estate to make the move like that is few and far between.\u201d<\/p>\n That amount of room also means the restaurant will be able to do some new things like housing a full-service bar: Pape\u2019s Bar, named for Pape\u2019s Drive In, a restaurant that once occupied the building. <\/p>\n Purple Olive intends to continue to offer catering services, and the new restaurant will include a menu made up of Chef Kenney\u2019s \u201cgreatest hits,\u201d White says. <\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s pulling in things he\u2019s made and loved over the last 35 years,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n That includes some favorites from Gypsy Cab Co., which closed earlier this year. Kenney spent five years working as a chef at Gypsy Cab before he opened his own restaurant, White says. Thanks to a blessing from Gypsy Cab founder Ned Pollack, diners may recognize some of the menu items.<\/p>\n \u201cHe knows those recipes forwards and backwards,\u201d White says, \u201cso we\u2019re including a couple in the mix.\u201d<\/p>\n While the old Purple Olive location on State Road A1A South will close, White says to stay tuned \u2014 once the new Purple Olive location is up and running, she says she and Kenney have some ideas for the old A1A spot.<\/p>\n While the two make finishing touches to open their new restaurant, they\u2019re also planning a wedding \u2014 the two are getting married next month.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re looking for a\u00a0way to test the strength of a relationship, White says, open a restaurant together.<\/p>\n The new Purple Olive<\/a> location on Anastasia Boulevard will open for dinner every day at 4 p.m. starting Friday.<\/p>\n The post Purple Olive restaurant moves to former Gypsy Cab space<\/a> appeared first on Jacksonville Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 21 years in business at its old location in St. Augustine Beach, Purple Olive will open its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[749,116,118,117,14229,266,748,15306],"class_list":["post-18546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-breaking-news","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-today","tag-local-news","tag-newsbreak","tag-purple-olive-restaurant-moves-to-former-gypsy-cab-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18546","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=18546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Purple Olive owners Kristen White and Peter Kenney. | Old City PR, Paige Allsup<\/p>\n