


Starters Creamy Garlic and Herb Mushrooms – £6♵0 on Malted Brown Toast with Dambusters Cheese. Tuesday to Saturday This menu, updated on Saturday 15 th October 2022, will vary according to season and the availability of ingredients. Eating with us in the Evening: 17:00 - 20:30 RESTAURANT HOURS Sunday - 12:00 to 15:30 Monday - CLOSED Tuesday - 12:00 until 15:00 and then 17:00 until 20:30 Wednesday - the same as Tuesday. Pre-order only (Please note our kitchen is CLOSED on SUNDAY EVENING) Our menu is available during the following hours: Photos are also welcome.EATING WITH US: Excepting Bank Holidays, please note that we do not cook on Monday Evenings – Tuesday to Saturday Lunchtime – Tuesday to Saturday Sunday – Lunchtime only Group Party Menu - eight persons or more.

If you have a question about Jacksonville's architectural history, call (904) 359-4622 or mail to Call Box, P.O. When Specialty filed for bankruptcy in California, a federal bankruptcy judge awarded the lease to White's Place, operator of the Gold Club, in 1995.Īnd so it has remained, describing itself as a gentlemen's club that excels at providing sexy entertainment. In 1990, the JPA had signed a 20-year lease agreement with Specialty. The property is owned by the Jacksonville Port Authority. The military machinery was gone, but the building, decor and atmosphere remained remarkably unchanged, the Times-Union reported.īut the new Henderson's didn't last either. In September 1992, the Squadron closed and reopened a month later under its original Henderson's name. In December 1990, it was subleased and reopened as Bugsy's Hideaway, but that restaurant closed about a year later and then reopened as 94th Aero Squadron. Its location also made it somewhat hard to find. It worked for a while but closed in 1986 because it wasn't making any money and the food's quality went down, the Times-Union reported. And we said, let's tell the story of Guadalcanal where they fought in the jungle." "We asked ourselves how we could use this setting.

"The runway lights were ghostly, and the tower searchlight was romantic as it rotated around," Tallichet said. Restaurant officials thought they had made a bad mistake because it was back in the woods and you could hardly see Craig's runway, he said. The property was on the side of Craig field in a thicket of pines and palmettos and by rumor, rattlesnakes, he said. Its theme came about by accident, Tallichet, a California businessman and a military aviator in World War II, told the Journal in 1982. The restaurant was owned by David Tallichet, board chairman of Specialty Restaurants, and was part of a corporation that had 47 similar outlets in California, Texas and Florida. Still, reviewers described the building's interior as "charmingly rustic" and "somewhat strangely romantic." Enter the women's restroom, for example, and you heard Churchill's famed "We shall fight on the beaches" speech that he delivered in June 1940.Ī cocktail lounge included a large dance floor and a big screen on which movies and newsreels from the 1940s were projected. Even the restrooms were steeped in the theme. Headphones connected to air traffic control dialogue, if diners so desired, while tape-recorded machine-gun fire could be heard after leaving your car. Servers wearing Red Cross pinafores or Army Air Corps tunics delivered orders of Thunderbolt Deep Dish Cheese Pie, Guadalcanal Chicken and Veal Corsair. There were recruiting posters, framed covers from Yank magazine, pictures of aircraft carriers listing in battle, fighter planes streaming smoke, bomber crews lounging around B-17s, ammo cases and helmets. Combat memorabilia crowded the stucco walls from floor to ceiling. Heavy wooden beams formed lintels and lined the ceiling while flames flickered in open hearths from under artificial logs, a Times-Union story said.
