{"id":217844,"date":"2026-04-03T19:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217844\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:39:09","slug":"new-bar-and-club-jay-ques-opens-on-22nd-street-south-replacing-catalyst-in-south-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217844\/","title":{"rendered":"New bar and club Jay Que\u2019s opens on 22nd Street South, replacing Catalyst in south St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The menu includes Jamaican favorites like beef patties, turkey wings, oxtails, brown stew or jerk chicken, and goat curry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Chris, an employee of Jay Que\u2019s, said the new concept has retained much of the previous staff and is focused on staying connected to the surrounding neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cWhat needs to be known is that we are for this community,\u201d he said. \u201cNow that we\u2019re here and we\u2019re a part of it, we ultimately serve them. Every decision that\u2019s being made, the community is the priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">However, the transition hasn\u2019t been without some controversy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">After Jay Que\u2019s took over the space, a well-known Louis Armstrong mural on the building\u2019s exterior was painted over, drawing complaints from residents on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The menu includes Jamaican favorites like beef patties, turkey wings, oxtails, brown stew or jerk chicken, and goat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-217844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217844","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=217844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}