{"id":358052,"date":"2026-07-30T21:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358052\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:17:13","slug":"doc-fords-rum-bar-grille-st-pete-location-closing-reopening-as-new-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358052\/","title":{"rendered":"Doc Ford&#8217;s Rum Bar &#038; Grille St. Pete Location Closing, Reopening As New Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new restaurant will remain under the umbrella of the HM Restaurant Group, which also operates Doc Ford\u2019s locations, reports said. <\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s other concepts include Dixie Fish Company, Bonita Fish Company and Gloria\u2019s Sauce. <\/p>\n<p>The Doc Ford\u2019s concept is inspired by a character of the same name featured in more than 30 novels by Florida author Randy Wayne White. <\/p>\n<p>White first licensed the name, as well as book-related design and menu ideas to Island House Restaurants in 2003, <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/doc-fords-jungle-terrace-to-close-re-open-with-new-name\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Pete Catalyst said<\/a>. HMRG later took over that contract in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>See Also: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new restaurant will remain under the umbrella of the HM Restaurant Group, which also operates Doc Ford\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-358052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358052","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=358052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}