Print Article
Inside the new Uptown Market at Third and Main
Inside the new City Kidz Ice Cream Cafe
Quote
Your Official Grand Opening Invitation:
Third & Main Street Official Grand Opening Barbecue
1303 N. Main Street, Jacksonville, FL 32206
This special event will commemorate the opening of the first new mixed use commercial complex building in Historic Springfield, Jacksonville, Florida in over 40 years:
Saturday October 17, 2009 is "Third & Main" Family & Friends Day from 12-7pm the festivities will includes a free barbecue, children activities, face painting, vendors, community updates, and a tour of the complex.
The festivities do not stop on Saturday Uptown Market & Deli restaurant will be hosting a Jazz Trio on Sunday October 18, 2009 and City Kidz Ice Cream & Café Restaurant will be offering all sorts of menu discounts.
All free food is serve on a first come basis and festivities starts at 12:00PM.
Third and Main is a project that has been closely watched by Metro Jacksonville over the past two years.
Third and Main broke ground in May of 2007.
June 2008
September 2008
November 2008
June 2009
Come out this weekend to celebrate the grand opening of two new Springfield businesses.
Share this article
RSS
JaxBorn1962
October 15, 2009, 06:23:22 AMGood!
tpot
October 15, 2009, 07:09:08 AMThis place is awesome!! Great breakfast, lunch and dinner!!!
Abhishek
October 15, 2009, 07:15:27 AMThe food is excellent. I have only had breakfast on Saturday mornings. The 8 am wait staff on Saturday mornings have a tiny bit to mature. Other than that, it is a very good experience. I like the large windows, the mini grocery store and the minimalist feel. The frittata and home fries are phenomenal. Bring an appetite.
fsu813
October 15, 2009, 08:33:03 AMChicken & Waffles is soon to come to City Kidz. A California favorite.
Thier ice cream is good too. Had a float last week.
Captain Zissou
October 15, 2009, 09:26:46 AMUnfortunately I'll be out of town this weekend, but the posts above have made my stomach growl. I'll be there next Saturday fo' sho'
thelakelander
October 15, 2009, 09:33:06 AMI'll be there. Our businesses need all the support they can get.
Uptown Market
October 15, 2009, 11:29:08 AMCouple quick things:
Free wine tasting pairing Friday from 6pm to 9pm. Music by Thomas Love.
Free Burgers and Beer Saturday from 4pm to 7pm. Music by Carrie Location.
Jazz Brunch (not free) but Free Mimosas Sunday starts at 8am to 3pm.
Regular hours all three days and more info updated all day at http://uptownmarketjax.com
thanks for the love.
Uptown Market
October 15, 2009, 11:50:36 AMAlso, this is is a celebration of City Kidz too. The best ice cream in the hood. Make sure to bring the family all day Saturday as they have a lot of fun stuff in store too!
thelakelander
October 15, 2009, 11:56:02 AMCity Kidz will be serving free burgers, hotdogs and chicken wings beginning at 12 Noon on Saturday. So it looks like people can hang out all day at 3rd & Main.
Springfield Girl
October 15, 2009, 04:47:57 PMI have been craving the crepes all week. I hope to go for breakfast tommorrow. Love the Uptown Market!!
sheclown
October 15, 2009, 05:23:04 PMGreat places for Main. Good pretzel cones. We're so glad you are here.
Dark Knight
October 15, 2009, 05:34:57 PMHey , Sheclown its about time you treated to lunch again soon. I hope you are feeling better , we need you !!!!!!!!!
thelakelander
October 19, 2009, 09:50:24 PMHere are a few images from this past weekend.
fsu813
October 23, 2009, 03:23:51 PManother great article on Uptown in today's paper:
Jacksonville, we may have arrived at a social media moment. Recently, I found out via Twitter, the 140-character shout out that has many of us involved in an unnatural relationship with our phones, that a restaurant had opened its doors.
It was the very hip Uptown Market & Deli announcing its arrival at Main and Third streets via tweets. In addition to the original updates, the restaurant staff posts featured entrees on Twitter, with photos to whet your appetite. Pay attention, restaurant people: This is called marketing.
It is just gorgeous out right now, and it wasn't difficult to grab some co-workers and head Uptown for lunch outdoors. While the inside is airy and bright, with concrete floors and an open kitchen, it is hard to resist those outside tables.
We opted for lunch, and I started with a very good Tomato Basil Soup with garlic croutons. It hit that perfect spot between fresh and creamy, with the fresh basil really amping up the flavor.
On my first visit, I loved my generous Market Chop Salad ($8.50). The mixed greens were crisp and layered with roasted turkey, cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions, bacon and a spicy tomato-sesame dressing. I asked for and received several fresh slices of avocado - with no extra charge.
(contined at link)
http://jacksonville.com/lifestyles/food/2009-10-23/story/springfields_new_uptown_market_deli_gets_its_message_across
JeffreyS
October 23, 2009, 03:26:28 PMHas anyone tried the crepes I would love to here how they were.
blizz01
October 25, 2009, 02:42:40 PMI would too! We went to Uptown Market today for breakfast, however, to our dismay, they didn't have the crepes. I opted for the breakfast burrito & now I'm torn between theirs vs. Metro Diner's. If I had remembered that City Kidz had Chicken & Waffles, we would have gone straight there, but we did pop in for dessert. I can't wait to go back. Both are great additions.
thelakelander
October 25, 2009, 10:30:48 PMMention Metro Jacksonville this week at City Kidz and receive a 15% discount on anything purchased!
From an email sent earlier today
thelakelander
October 25, 2009, 11:10:16 PMI don't know if you can do this with the Metro Jacksonville discount but maybe its worth a try.
Lunican
October 29, 2009, 10:07:52 AMI think I will try the discount tonight.
Lunican
October 31, 2009, 11:31:15 AMI had the Chicken Panini, which was really good. Also, they said they will be extending the discount through this weekend for FL/GA.
thelakelander
October 31, 2009, 11:50:26 AMI had peach cobbler the other day. It was pretty good. I'm about to ride my bike through Springfield to get some pics for a future article, so maybe I'll stop by and take advantage of this discount before it expires.
fsu813
November 12, 2009, 07:58:58 AMI noticed that MetroJax readers get a 15% discount this week at City Kidz for simply mentioning MJ.
I'll have to take advantage of that tonight.
thelakelander
November 12, 2009, 08:24:40 AMI believe that expired last week and we have not updated the ad. Nevertheless, ask them about it. They just might give it to you.
GENTRY
November 12, 2009, 08:38:08 AMI've lived in Springfield for just over thirteen years and welcomed City Kidz like every new positive enterprise. Given a few more years you will find that Springfield South of 8th St. will rival the Five Points or San Marco Square areas. All we need is more vision and faith in ourselves, others and our elected officials. Okay let's go eat.
Reaper man
November 23, 2009, 06:11:00 AMAfter getting some money from one of the clients I worked with last friday, I decided to give Uptown Market a quick look. I must say, if you haven't tried the Turkey Sandwich with the avocado and sun dried tomato mayo, stop what you're doing, get over there and buy one, you won't regret it. It is one of the best deli sandwiches I have had in a long time. Afterwords I went to City Kidz. They offered me the bourbon chocolate cake. I had it later after I went to the pearl. It was pretty good, though I couldn't really taste the bourbon at all (probably because I had been drinking a lot that night, sooooo yeah) the owner (I think he was the owner?) gave me a menu, and I must say, their sandwiches as well look rather delicious, so I may have to have lunch there sometime (as well as maybe a float or something to go along with it, haha)
I'd personally highly recommend either place. :>
vicupstate
November 23, 2009, 08:07:35 AMSo how are these places doing post grand opening? Well, I hope. Any word from the onwers on how it is going versus expectations?
iluvolives
November 23, 2009, 10:08:39 AMI went to lunch at Uptown 2-3 weeks ago and every table was full and there was even a short line that had formed at the time I was leaving. I was really impressed with their sandwiches and hope that it continues to stay busy.
fsu813
January 07, 2010, 10:32:49 AMGood 1 page article about Bill Cesery and Third & Main in the Nov/Dec issue of Access (the COC magazine).
Among other things, it mentions that The Library renovation will begin this month sometime......
Also, City Kidz sends out emails to customers.....and the latest one details (with pics) how Mr. Cesery had a financial/real estate literacy workshop for neighborhood kids recently. The pics looked really fun. It's good to hear how he's giving back in that way.
brainstormer
July 08, 2010, 08:38:44 PMI stopped by around 6pm today to pick up dinner and all of Uptown was locked and dark! Anyone know what's going on? No sign on the door or anything. I ended up making dinner myself
RockStar
July 08, 2010, 09:21:35 PMI heard they were closing the Market side...
9a is my backyard
July 08, 2010, 09:23:57 PMUptown announced just a week or two ago they were going to stop having dinner: http://theurbancoredotcom.blogspot.com/2010/06/breaking-news-next-friday-night-will-be.html
brainstormer
July 08, 2010, 10:13:44 PM^ Thanks, I was on vacation for 2 1/2 weeks and missed the announcement. I'm sad to see the dinner option go but hopefully they will open up something else downtown in the near future.
Ron Mexico
July 08, 2010, 10:36:35 PMWhy are they not serving dinner any longer? I thought they were doing well. Is it the location?
thelakelander
July 08, 2010, 10:46:59 PMThat sucks. They had pretty good take home dinners.
fieldafm
July 08, 2010, 11:12:21 PMOn one of my recent bike rides, I road up to Uptown for lunch and they mentioned they would be stopping takeout dinner services.... but only temporarily while they were undergoing some changes. The person I spoke with made a point to emphasizedthe temporarily part.
alta
July 09, 2010, 01:15:57 AMhttp://www.myspringfield.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=509&hilit=the+native
Opened last week at 4th and Market. Tried it for lunch twice this week. Good food. Reasonable prices. Great service.
Keith-N-Jax
October 11, 2010, 08:18:20 AMHad friends in town this weekend from Atlanta and took them to uptown, really nice place. It was my first visit also and I will certainly be going back. Great food, great service. They really liked the springfield area, mainly the historic houses. Just thought I'd share.
Coolyfett
October 11, 2010, 11:50:43 AMSo Springfield is Uptown Jacksonville???
thelakelander
October 11, 2010, 12:39:42 PMNo. Springfield is Springfield.
letters and numbers
December 22, 2010, 02:34:27 PMWow this is an old thread but the only one I could find.
What do you think about the expansion of uptown market? http://www.myspringfield.org/General/changes-coming-to-uptown-market.html I ate there twice and liked it but have a difficult time visualizing the layout of the bar and cover seating. I think it will be good though. This is the sort of thing that I like to see in a developing area!!
fsujax
December 22, 2010, 02:44:20 PMKeith most people from outside Jacksonville like Springfield. I had friends visiting one time from Miami and they loved the neighborhood!
dougskiles
January 05, 2011, 01:46:38 PMWe just made the venture from our familiar San Marco establishments to City Kidz for lunch. It was great!
We had the pleasure of meeting Clinton and Sonya Bush and enjoyed the crab cake sandwich and pizza stacker. Very tasty - we look forward to going back.
Kiva
January 05, 2011, 02:27:53 PMYou should also try Uptown market, which is next door. Very good breakfasts and lunches. Also at the weekend there is no line, unlike Metro diner!
iloveionia
January 05, 2011, 08:43:05 PMIn order for our Springfield businesses to survive, we need folks like you to venture into our hood and return. Thank you so very much.
Sonya and Clinton are very, very nice people and run a welcoming and inviting eatery.
dougskiles
January 05, 2011, 09:41:12 PMAnd they are so humble, too. We were actually planning on going to the Uptown Market and were walking past his store (he was outside) from the back parking lot. We looked inside thinking it was the Market and he mentioned to us that they were a little further down. We never said that we were looking for the Market but he must have assumed it. When we saw the delicious looking food on his menu, we asked if he was open for lunch and the rest is history.
We've been to the Market for breakfast and will next time try it for lunch - and then go back over to City Kidz for ice cream!
thelakelander
January 05, 2011, 09:53:00 PMBtw, Clinton was recently nominated as the president of the Springfield Area Merchants and Business Association (SAMBA). Look for good things to come out of this group over the next year.
PeeJayEss
March 29, 2013, 11:41:45 AMLooks like dinner is coming back, along with drinks and some changes to the building. I never saw this post back when it was originally posted, but if you scroll down, you can see the update from the chef:
http://myspringfield.org/business-development/changes-coming-to-uptown-market
thelakelander
March 29, 2013, 11:43:28 AMSweet!
blizz01
March 29, 2013, 11:49:10 AMWhew - At first glance, I thought City Kidz was adding bar service.....
John P
March 29, 2013, 12:41:55 PMUptown market does a great job. It will be nice to go there for dinner and bar sometimes.