Jackson Jambalaya

There’s 2 locations already. Can they support a third?

@8:23

There are 6. Amerigos is a small chain

Italian Cuisine is inexpensive to prepare and the sauce lasts refrigerated for quite a while. However, good water is essential. Amerigos has plenty of staff and full parking lots when other restaurants are empty.

Dead capital investment from Day 1.

Great food and service!

Sorry, but, no. No cannolis, but you have to carry a gun. I.e., inverse Godfather. Take the gun, but you can't get a cannoli. Fail.

Fail to plan or plan to fail? The water crisis is not over. Water mains continue to break. Waste water lines continue to break. 'jackers continue to 'jack. Potholes continue to break wheels.

I'll give their food a B as far as American-Italian food goes.

@9:06 AM - About the most authentic cannoli I have found is at The Fresh Market, when they have them. I know cannoli having lived in Italy for 7+ years. I used to pick them up from a friend in Sicily in trade for mozzarella di bufala from Naples.

Plural - cannoli
Singular - cannolo

3 cheese tortellini with chicken, no onion. Cheesecake. Damn.

They must have needed a write off.

"Once more into the breach."

It’s not about results.
It’s all about feeling good.
InBev has already lost a billion dollars on their tranny beer
But they feel good! And Jimmy Kimmel will say nice things about Bud Lite now!
Like a pozzed drag queen at a daycare, just gratify yourself!

9:07 name a better Italian restaurant in Jackson. Fondren is really doing well.

@9:43 am, when Olive Garden is your only competition in Jackson...

Why?

And it's tiramisu.

As long as they don't whine in 5 years about the water, garbage, crime, lack of staff, etc.

You Fondrenites can thank the legislature and the Capitol Police. The CCID is the only reason restaurants are coming into Jackson.

@9:54 AM - Correct.

@9:51 AM - So true. The first time I went to an Olive Garden our waiter pronounced bruschetta as brew-shetta. I lived in Italy at the time but was back for a short visit in another state. I politely corrected the waiter's pronunciation, but the waiter insisted that he pronounced it correctly and explained that is how their chef learned to pronounce it during "training" in Italy.

Lol.

If an "Italian" restaurant doesn't serve Arancini, it's not an Italian restuarant.

Ut oh, Virgi. Looks like Pulito has competition.

Bless their hearts...

Amerigo's is just as much Italian as Olive Garden is.

The only strategy I see in play here is that they'll have 3 large church sanctuaries within walking distance to use to fill up with the garbage.

....and a large neighborhood of customers that wont have to drive to Ridgeland or Dogwood, as well as perhaps the largest employer in the state, UMMC. It will be at full capacity.

@9:34 exactly! Why else would a restaurant come to a city plagued with chronic water issues & no trash services...not to mention the crime rate?

Definitely a write off.

10:29 If you were living in Italy, why in the hell would you consider eating at an Olive Garden while here???

You people for the most part are so nasty and negative and for no reason! KF I'll bet businesses hate your attempt at reporting news because of the comments. I love Amerigo and wish them well. Now just have to decide which location to go to!

Fratesi's is the Best Italian in the Jackson metro area...

@2:31 PM I was with some customers who took me to eat there. It wasn't my choice.

@3:00 PM - 10:29 AM here - I agree.

Is Fondren in the CCID now? Only way I’d go eat or to an event there.

"The CCID is the only reason restaurants are coming into Jackson."

Hold on...before you go to the fridge for another craft beer...name them.

I hope its better than the Flowood location. That place is terrible.

While Fratesi's is my favorite Italian restaurant below the Mason-Dixon line the Amerigo's in Nashville is a close second. I hope the planned new one here does well.

For its size, Jackson/Ridgeland/Madison area has lots of really good restaurants. I hope this one is a success.

@6:47. Hey now...don't be downing my craft beer! I can't stomach that Michelob Ultra and Miller Light...aka water. Drink something that'll put some hair on your chest! Well, you've got Pulito Osteria, Little Tokyo moving into the old Barrelhouse (still a loss), and now Amerigo coming. All of those have opened since the Capitol PD expanded last year.

@6:27. Yes, it is.

It's a gamble for sure. I just don't see enough people venturing into The Fondren for dinner to support this place.

Nor does Mississippi's workforce have enough day drinkers and heavy-lunch-eaters to prop the place up. Hope for their sake I'm wrong.

Unlike its sister establishment over in Ridgeland, you'll have to drive a tank through danger-zones coming into The Fondren from any direction.

And you people are wrong if you believe enough of the constant-complainers at UMMC will walk to The Fondren for lunch to make a difference.

(Nothing wrong with a good Fondren-for-lunch discussion.)