{"id":351521,"date":"2026-07-24T20:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351521\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:34:07","slug":"fat-tuesday-plans-return-to-jacksonville-nearly-30-years-after-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351521\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Tuesday plans return to Jacksonville, nearly 30 years after closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h977697-p1\">Fat Tuesday, a frozen cocktail bar, is returning to Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h977697-p2\">It was an original Jacksonville Landing tenant when the dining, retail and entertainment complex opened in 1987 in Downtown Jacksonville at what is now <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/07\/06\/european-street-cafe-riverfront-plaza\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Riverfront Plaza<\/a>. Fat Tuesday closed that location in 1997, when the lease was not renewed.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h977697-p3\">News4Jax, a Jacksonville Today news partner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/23\/guess-whats-returning-to-jacksonville-soon-serving-alcoholic-daiquiris-once-again\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported Thursday<\/a> that Fat Tuesday plans to move into the former Rain Dogs at 1045 Park St. in Five Points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/24\/fat-tuesday-plans-return-to-jacksonville\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story<\/a> at the Jacksonville Daily Record, also a Jacksonville Today news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fat Tuesday, a frozen cocktail bar, is returning to Jacksonville. It was an original Jacksonville Landing tenant when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-351521","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\/351521","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=351521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}