Jackson Jambalaya

To this day. I don’t understand why Keegan’s didn’t make it. Great building and location. Did the food suck and the owners not realize ot?

The old Keegan's location is weird. For some reason, it's an afterthought even though it's on a high-traffic road (Old Canton) and close to a second one (Lake Harbor). Several restaurants have died there, including a Mexican place. When does a Mexican restaurant ever go out of business???

The old Keegan's was sandwiched between the back of the Kroger and the back of apartment complexes. The food was good but it is a huge building. I think they overbuilt. It's a Hispanic church now.

I don’t recall “M&Ms” in Banner Hall. Did Mark Shapley sell that business and sue the new owner later?

Colours was great food. That's where I got acquainted with Monday's food and it's still good today.

Wasn't there a former Playboy Playmate from Jackson who bartended there for awhile?

Keegan's was a Jaco's Tacos for a bit. I went there twice and it seemed busy, but they closed rather suddenly. The location must be snake bit. The proof will be in the current tenant.

I mean a church seems to be able to survive ANYWHERE. If that church fails, then it has to be the location.

Why Tom Lambing closed Times Change is a mystery. That was a great place, and was always busy.

KEEGANs! Thank you Fish, been trying to remember what was there. Keegan's, then Jakes, then Tequilas, then Jacos Tacos. Cursed location, along with the old Deja Vu spot.

Is that Oddjob?

Jacobs just never seemed to hit it as a restaurateur. Keegan’s has decent food but service was lackluster from day one. Never ate at the seafood place that followed, but it came and went. Two places in Maywood were busts, as well. He still around town?

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Missy Cleveland was the April 1979 Playboy Playmate of the month who worked at Colours.

Tom Lambing was a good chef but a full blown sociopath. He claimed to have an MBA from Univ of Indiana and be classically trained, neither of which was true. He faked his disappearance not once but twice while he was running Times Change and finally skipped town owing much money after the failure of his last restaurant in Jackson, ETC. He left his wife and child without a trace and resurfaced a year or so later in Orange County, CA. I read a puff piece interview with him in an Orange County local magazine when he was the chef at a place called Decanters. He used his real name but told a wildly confabulated story that he had owned a very successful restaurant in New Orleans which had been shut down by Katrina. Sadly, Tom killed himself in CA about a decade ago. A talented but troubled man.

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For those of you who remember Missy Cleveland...this is public record.
On April 15, 2000, a filing cabinet allegedly fell on Cleveland while she was
managing apartments for Stonegate Apartments in Clinton, Mississippi. She filed for
disability benefits with the Commission for a closed-head injury and mental injury. While
her claim was pending, Cleveland died of a drug overdose. And her mother, Becky Hodges,
pursued a workers’ compensation claim for Cleveland’s estate. Hodges later filed an
amended petition to controvert, seeking death benefits for herself as Cleveland’s dependent.