Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Eudora's Mississippi Brasserie Coming to The District

Eudora's Mississippi Brasserie issued the following press release. 

Eudora’s Mississippi Brasserie will open at The District later this year.

The restaurant and bar will specialize in craft cocktails with fresh ingredients and an active happy hour. For cuisine, they’ll serve a variety of dishes with an emphasis on many Southern favorites with an elegant twist.

“My family and I are excited to bring this new concept to Jackson,” said Tyler Alford, Operating Partner at Eudora’s Mississippi Brasserie. “I have had a wonderfully fortunate career that has taken me all over the country working in award-winning restaurants and with incredible mentors and colleagues. Jackson though, is where my family and I are ready to put down roots and grow with the community through Eudora’s, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to have this opportunity.”

Alford most recently was the President of the hospitality group overseeing the award-winning Copper Whiskey Bar & Grill and Brigade Restaurant in Montana and has previously served as Vice President of Operations and Beverage Director opening 12 locations for Tupelo Honey, which is based in Asheville, North Carolina with over 24 locations across seventeen states. Prior to that, he was the Bar Manager at Commander’s Palace Restaurant, a New Orleans staple. Alford is also no stranger to Jackson; he attended Millsaps from 2003 to 2005 where he also played on the football team for two seasons.

Eudora’s, whose name pays homage to beloved Mississippi author, Eudora Welty, will be located in the space previously occupied by Fine and Dandy. The menu will follow a seasonal pattern, and many of the ingredients will be sourced from local farmers, when available. The cocktail menu will feature specialty beverages along with timeless classics like Manhattans, Palomas, and Mint Juleps.

“We are thrilled that Eudora’s has chosen The District at Eastover as its home,” said Breck Hines and Ted Duckworth of Concord Companies. “Since the project’s beginnings, we have strived to provide an elevated experience, starting with intentional design details that come together to create a special place for all of Metro-Jackson. Tyler’s experience is vast, and his passion is infectious; these are the qualities on which great restaurants are built upon, and we look forward to being part of Tyler’s vision for something special with Eudora’s.”

“As a 30-year veteran of the Jackson restaurant market, I am excited to learn a seasoned operator like Tyler Alford is coming home,” said Jeff Good, President of Mangia Bene, Inc. Restaurant Management Group. “As a resident of Fondren, I am thrilled Tyler has chosen Jackson to manifest his vision. As the owner of Sal & Mookie’s (and his soon-to-be next door business neighbor) I am ecstatic he is renovating the former Fine & Dandy spot, and will share in the quality of experience that is The District at Eastover! I look forward to seeing a full house at Eudora’s when I glance across the District Green… just as he will undoubtedly see when looking back over at me from his patio dining area. A high tide rises all boats, and having another excellent offering in The District, simply builds capacity and volume for all! Working together works!”

Eudora’s Mississippi Brasserie will begin construction and renovations in the coming months and plans to open to the public this fall. For more information, follow them on Facebook or Instagram.


32 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cool. Look forward to dining there.

Anonymous said...

Is it opening in the old fine and dandy location?

Anonymous said...

Sounds like a cool concept. Let's hope it doesn't meet the fate of the previous tenants. Is this the type concept the owners of The District were shooting for when they kicked out Cantina Laredo?

Anonymous said...

To everything churn, churn, churn.

Anonymous said...

Of course the Thought Leader weighs in now that he successfully wrangled his businesses inside of the CCID protection cordon. Haven't heard anything else from him lately about HB1020, have you?

Anonymous said...

Next-

Anonymous said...

Wrongly accused Jackson hater here (for merely pointing out the racist leaders should be run out of town) but I hope the restaurant and its investors have great success!

Anonymous said...

1:04
Cantina Laredo deserved to be kicked out. They sucked.

Anonymous said...

Alright, more DUI's.

Anonymous said...

"As a 30 year veteran I am delighted to have another competetor next door
who will be out of business soon"

Anonymous said...

I did not hate Laredo, or Spanish Sophomore.
The service was not ideal but that is true all everywhere.

I had good food at both and was sad they closed.

Anonymous said...

I read that as missing brassiere. don't think I'd want to see that

Anonymous said...

I was surprised to see booze as the featured offering of a brasserie. However, one definition of the word is 'brewery'. But really, why is booze still a big thing?

Why is booze still getting mainstream approval? Booze makes you fat, stupid, ugly, and poor. And that's before one gets to the darker consequences of drinking, like the ongoing Mardis saga, whose precipitating event was fueled - as participants have testified in court - by consumption of alcohol. Oh, and there are all the drunk-driving tragedies, which abound in Mississippi.

Maybe it's because I was born behind the 8-Ball, and have had to scratch my way out of the gutter I was born in: but it amazes me that in the state with the lowest IQ average, with the most obese people, and with the highest number of impoverished people, booze would be embraced, and accepted in social settings. One would hope that it would be the last (legal) substance anyone would purposely ingest.

It's hard to find food free of added sugars, free of PUFA oils, free of MSG, and free of clandestine carbs (read the ingredients labels of some "meats", sometime...). Hell: they're even putting Titanium Dioxide in bread, these days, and some countries forbid a certain American sandwich franchise from calling its buns "Bread", since they contain as much sugar as cakes and cookies. But it's so-damn-easy, to simply not order alcoholic beverages.

So, why, in a state plagued with poverty, stupidity, and obesity, can people not collectively agree that booze is uncool?



Anonymous said...

3:07 Hear! Hear! (or is it Here! Here!? - I've never seen it written out).

Anyway, let's bring back Prohibition.

Your way worked so well last time we tried it.....

Sgt. Hulka said...

3:07 – Lighten up, Francis.

Anonymous said...

3:07 needs a little sugar, caffeine or wine/booze.. Or some oils, MSGs, Titaniums..

Being waaaay too safe.

Anonymous said...

3:07, you need to read the "Soggy Sweat Whiskey Speech" to answer your questions.

Anonymous said...

It's encouraging to note the intention of 'using fresh ingredients' in the cocktails. God, think about the alternatives.

The name of the place is somewhat questionable. Remember the place on the Ridgeland RR track that left a couple of years ago. I think it was named 'Roachez'...very appetizing.

And what could be more appetizing than a brassier?

Anonymous said...

Well, it ain't got nuthin' to do with Miss Welty's bra, thank goodness.

What makes a restaurant a brasserie?

A brasserie is an informal French cafe offering beer and wine with simple, hearty food.

The dining area is usually large and open, boasting a loud, boisterous atmosphere with many tables filling the space. Food is served at all hours, without breaks between lunch and dinner service, and the menus are French-inspired.
_____________________
French, you say!

Well, hell. Just as we were getting use to the 62 Mexican Restaurants in the metro.

Cue the 'help wanted' ads in 6.5.4

Anonymous said...

A) There is no measuring data of IQ per state, as 90% of the population of any state has never taken an IQ test instrument.

B) Next, it's 'Here Here' as most anybody with an IQ of 68 knows.

Anonymous said...

3:07, no worries, in a few year’s medical marijuana will take the place of booze, you’ll be in hog heaven!

Anonymous said...

"3:07, no worries, in a few year’s medical marijuana will take the place of booze, you’ll be in hog heaven!"
April 26, 2023 at 5:41 PM

Yes! Then Mississippians won't be "fat, ugly, stupid, and poor", anymore. They'll just be ugly, stupid, and poor.

Anonymous said...

Hey, @ 5:22, it’s “Hear! Hear!” which was the shortened version of Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
The internet is your friend.

Anonymous said...

Give me Dairy Queen Brazier any day over this high falutin’ place.

Anonymous said...

Give 3:07 a break.
If you are fat, lay off alcohol. It will make you fatter.
If you are poor, lay off alcohol. There are better ways to climb out of the economic gutter.
If you have an addictive personality or are an adult child of an alcoholic, lay off alcohol. It will likely not end well for you.
If you drink publicly, call
Uber to get home.
This is not hard people.

Anonymous said...

Place sounds like a lingerie shop.

@ 5:22 - actually it's "Hear hear." Look it up. I guess you're not up to 68.

Raise Ye Pints, Lads said...

"The dining area is usually large and open, boasting a loud, boisterous atmosphere with many tables filling the space. Food is served at all hours, without breaks between lunch and dinner service"

HEAR! HERE! Great! Another Shakey's Pizza Parlor! I've missed the one that became a post office forty years ago.

Anonymous said...

In their 20s, 30s, 40s, many people can enjoy two drinks over two hours, stop and go home. The District area has lawyers, accountants, real estate and other well paid business people who can enjoy dinner and drinks in a safe environment with their colleagues and clients.

This could be a very successful venture. The purple haired set can stay in The Fondren.

Anonymous said...

Jackson restaurant supply exceeds demand.

Anonymous said...

I'm with 3:07. I'd miss wine with cheese before supper or a glass of wine with a meal, but I will take one for the team and the better good. Prohibition has never been done right. I say we return to prohibition and back it up this time with death sentences, the kind that don't take 20 damn years to get the job done. Besides, it's a great way to cull the herd of loafer-wearing hotty toddy-types that aren't even productive members of society.

Anonymous said...

Dang, I didn't realize Fine & Dandy had closed. I ate there once when it opened. I guess I wasn't paying attention. I have always enjoyed the food hall, but haven't been in over a year.

Anonymous said...

I've found it amusing to imagine Eudora Welty enjoying a 'craft cocktail'. But then, I googled the issue, and Garden & Gun informs us that the great author, while she "drank very little", found four or five ounces of bourbon to be essential for getting through her day.

Lacking a frame of reference, I went to the pantry, where a small bottle of Rodelle Vanilla Extract, is 4 ounces. The magnificent Kingfish could burn-up that amount of alcohol, doing one set of squats. I wonder what effect 4 ounces would have had on Eudora Welty, whom I presume to have been small and with a slow metabolism.




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