{"id":285216,"date":"2026-05-26T21:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285216\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:07:25","slug":"naked-kitchen-opens-1st-restaurant-in-phoenix-arts-innovation-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285216\/","title":{"rendered":"Naked Kitchen opens 1st restaurant in Phoenix Arts &#038; Innovation District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After creating a pop-up and catering restaurant with the theme of \u201ccooking with conscience,\u201d the team behind <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2023\/11\/28\/naked-kitchen-restaurant-signs-on-in-phoenix-arts-district\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naked Kitchen<\/a> adopted a similar mentality in establishing the venture\u2019s first brick-and-mortar location.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h953317-p2\">Spouses Brian Nelson and Alexandra Bowles Nelson, with partner Matt Johnson, built out Naked Kitchen in a nearly 100-year-old building in the Phoenix Arts &amp; Innovation District in North Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>The partners, who focus on using nonprocessed ingredients produced in environmentally friendly ways, not only revitalized the structure but also incorporated sustainability by reviving a professional oven for it and buying its plates, bowls, glassware and utensils secondhand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/may\/26\/naked-kitchen-up-and-running-as-the-first-restaurant-in-the-phoenix-arts-innovation-district\/\" 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":"After creating a pop-up and catering restaurant with the theme of \u201ccooking with conscience,\u201d the team behind Naked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-285216","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\/285216","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=285216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}