{"id":955005,"date":"2026-07-23T23:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/955005\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:23:16","slug":"fat-tuesday-to-return-to-jacksonville-soon-serving-alcoholic-daiquiris-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/955005\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Tuesday to return to Jacksonville soon, serving alcoholic daiquiris once again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 Can you guess which New Orleans-based chain, known for its alcoholic daiquiris, is returning to Jacksonville soon?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">If you said Fat Tuesday, then you are correct. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The chain took to its new Instagram account on Thursday to announce its comeback to the River City, years after the venue\u2019s closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">\u201cRiver City get ready. Fat Tuesday has entered the chat,\u201d the announcement reel said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Fat Tuesdays will take over the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/community\/2025\/01\/01\/rain-dogs-bids-farewell-to-five-points-as-community-looks-to-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/community\/2025\/01\/01\/rain-dogs-bids-farewell-to-five-points-as-community-looks-to-future\/\">Rain Dogs Five Points<\/a> location at 1045 Park Street. The Jacksonville staple known for its vibrant community and live music closed in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Fat Tuesday location locate on website shows the chain coming to Jacksonville soon (WJXT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">No opening date has been announced, but we reached out to the company to learn more about the new location. We will update this story once we receive a response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/14\/from-a-beloved-local-restaurant-to-a-culinary-campus-city-leaders-hope-downtown-projects-spur-even-more-development\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/14\/from-a-beloved-local-restaurant-to-a-culinary-campus-city-leaders-hope-downtown-projects-spur-even-more-development\/\">Jacksonville Landing<\/a> was the first home for a Fat Tuesday\u2019s location in Jacksonville back when the riverfront shopping center first opened in 1987. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/opinion\/columns\/mike-clark\/2018\/08\/05\/denise-reagan-landing-was-supposed-to-save-downtown\/6548927007\/?gnt-cfr=1&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;gca-uir=true&amp;gca-epti=z115301e001500v115301d--53--b--53--&amp;gca-ft=162&amp;gca-ds=sophi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/opinion\/columns\/mike-clark\/2018\/08\/05\/denise-reagan-landing-was-supposed-to-save-downtown\/6548927007\/?gnt-cfr=1&amp;gca-cat=p&amp;gca-uir=true&amp;gca-epti=z115301e001500v115301d--53--b--53--&amp;gca-ft=162&amp;gca-ds=sophi\">2019 Florida Times-Union report<\/a>, Fat Tuesday left The Landing after the venue\u2019s management chose not to renew the bar\u2019s 10-year lease, saying it wanted to shift from a younger crowd to an older clientele.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Until the Jacksonville location officially gets the party started, you would have to travel to Gainesville for the nearest location.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Can you guess which New Orleans-based chain, known for its alcoholic daiquiris, is returning to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":955006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,27607,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-955005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-jacksonville","tag-riverside","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116971870797688031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}