Jackson Jambalaya

One tiny step forward. I was downtown Saturday night for the Symphony and wanted to meet a friend for a drink beforehand. I was dumbfounded by the paucity of choices.

You probably won't have to worry about going to the Symphony downtown again.

I very much realize this. The symphony is one of the few bright spots in Jackson. It’s all very sad. I always ate at the Mayflower beforehand.

The symphony was/is such a beautiful event that Jackson has completely shit on, along with countless graduations, comedy shows, and small venue concerts

The sleazy bar was there just long enough to ruin downtown. Thanks a lot losers.

Lord only knows what will replace it. Probably something even worse.

And, you may now return to the 'Mayflower 2.0'... Thanks to Kane Ditto, a few dedicated Jacksonian investors and Mark Lamar who agreed to include the 'event space' adjoining the east wall of Mayflower 2.0, where there is now added dining space, two really fine restrooms AND a full bar at the front window. Go soon, but go early, as lunch on Friday 6 Sep.'24 took an hour to get seated, during which time I got to 'work the crowd' outside, then the dining room also, and I've only been a resident of Jackson since '62, making me an 'outsider' from the beginning.... but I seem to have fit in regardless.
Notice the interior details when you do visit: the raised ceiling height reveals glass block above the front wall, the fenestration above there, and the bright fluorescent lighting. Hopefully, it will be somewhat softened & pleasant at night. The servers must work as 'teams' as we never lacked attention for: butter for those famous dinner rolls, tartar sauce, ketchup, Tabasco®, 'mo tea' or any number of items making the fried catfish lunch quite perfect.

Dude, trust me, you didn't want to get a drink there before the symphony, Martins and Hal & Mals are your choices for that.

there's not enough room between the rows of booths to put tables, the servers are going to be bumping into you at the tables all meal long. Hopefully there's room to move the booths nearest the interior wall in about 6 inches (or get smaller tables).

Are symphonies so bad that y'all need some drinks before hand? Alcohol doesn't protect you from mold.

The options for busting a cap in someone's ass just declined.

It never should have been allowed to open. During construction and opening, they violated every code and ordinance on the books. But alas, the Mair took care of his friends.

Good! Now close down all the other sleazy nightclubs downtown and don't let any more reopen. Before marriage and kids, I frequented Fondren Public, Barrelhouse (RIP), and the Apothecary, and don't recall any shootings at those locations. Hmm

The cap busters are moving to Pearl & Vicksburg.

Also Gone!

Shilo Sanders out with a surgery on his arm.

Not looking so good for the Buffs.

https://x.com/DeionSanders/status/1833166368721535476

Nothing like a looming lawsuit to focus your mind - right, Ted Orkin?

September 9, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Must not have been downtown in the last decade. I started going down town in 2018 (and stopped in 2019). Downtown has been a ghost town for a long while.

When it was a gay bar years ago the sign out front said “entrance in the rear”

Hey 12:34, ask Kane if he ever used the “perception of crime” excuse.

The only reason anyone invests in cities with the rampant crime and chaos tactic leftist Democrats purposely use to control cities like Jackson, is because they know the Feds will keep bailing them out, in exchange for votes, regardless of how many children die from stray bullets.

Like Malcom X said: “that white person that you see calling himself a liberal (today its progressive) is the most dangerous thing in the entire Western Hemisphere.

It's beyond crude to employ the use of an after-dinner toothpick at the symphony. Can we assume you also burped when the trumpets tooted?

I thought the Farish St. dev. was supposed to be the big nightlife zone.