Historic homes, the Cummer gardens, and the Riverside Arts Market under the Fuller Warren Bridge. Dense with independent kitchens and the city's oldest bar rooms.
Executive chef Montakran "Bam" Schofield, who is from Thailand, and chief executive Jeff Schofield founded Blue Orchid on Atlantic Boulevard in 2016 and added this Riverside restaurant in 2022. Jacksonville Magazine described a shaded patio with a koi pond and a small waterfall.
Mother-and-son founded, and still the brewery most Jacksonville drinkers name first. The Rosselle Street taproom is the original room, on a Riverside industrial block rather than a retail strip.
The Riverside room of a Jacksonville family-owned group that has been here for more than 40 years. On Mondays, children age 12 and younger get a free meal and juice box with a regular adult entree and beverage at all three locations.
A Riverside curry counter where the dishes begin vegan and the protein is the add-on. That reverses the usual mixed-table problem: plant-based diners get the base menu, while everyone else decides what to add.
A natural foods market in Five Points with vegan options at the deli counter and fresh juice. A grocery with a vegan lunch rather than a vegan restaurant, and listed as exactly that.
Scratch cooking on Oak Street with vegan and gluten-free built into the menu rather than bolted onto it. A vegan order here is a normal order, which is a different thing from a substitution.
A King Street gastropub in Riverside since 2005, with 204 beers on tap, a Belgian-style basement bar and a steampunk dining room. Its own About page counts 20 TVs, and the events page lists magic nights and a late-night lounge.
The owner's parents opened a small Asian food store with a cafe on University Boulevard in 1989, and by 1990 it had grown into a full restaurant called Pattaya Thai, the restaurant's own story says. Its menu says every curry is made with 100 percent coconut milk.
Nina was born and raised in Thailand and lived in New York City for more than ten years before she opened this Lomax Street spot with her partner Clark. Her aunt Sunee flew in from Thailand to help get the recipes right, and the menu runs from boat noodles to papaya salad.
Entirely vegan since 2012, on King Street in Riverside. The distinction that matters here is fully vegan kitchen rather than vegan option, and this is the former.
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