Two developers are dreaming big with plans for a Cajun Nation buffet restaurant and open-air fish market on land across County Road 68 from the massive Buc-ee’s travel center at the I-10 and Baldwin Beach Express interchange.
The same group is also planning a huge RV park further east on I-10 at the Wilcox Road exit that could eventually contain 800 sites and a waterpark amenity as well. Brennen Vinet and partner Brandon Wetsel are leading the development effort.
“We’re going to be a world-class purveyor of nothing but the best seafood the Gulf Coast has to offer,” Vinet said. “It’s going to be a 30,000-square-foot facility. Have you ever been to Joe Patti’s? It’s a staple in Pensacola. It’ll be bigger than that, it’ll be open air seafood market and you can get anything you want. We’re going to have a live catfish tank where people can come and pick their fish, we clean it there. We’re going to have a big rotisserie outside that we’ll spin a pig on every day like we do in Louisiana. We’re going to have a stage where we do live music on the weekends. We’re going to have a 100-foot oyster bar. We’ll do farmer’s markets with the local community.”
Vinet expects the market and restaurant will employ about 200 people at its peak and the restaurant will include a buffet of Cajun foods. He and Wetsel are hoping to break ground in January and are currently shooting for a September opening date.
“Fresh as we can,” Vinet said. “Farm to table, organic. We’re going buy local meat. We’re going to have a meat market that’s out of this world. We’re going to buy local meat from Louisiana. I’m friends with guys who have some fabulous slaughterhouses. They’re doing wagyu and just outstanding meat products. We’re going to do locally in Alabama whatever we can buy, we’re going to have all top-grade USDA choice prime.”
Plans also call for an on-site will be bakery putting out sweet treats as well as all the bread to be used in the restaurant.
“We’re going to have fresh cinnamon rolls from a family recipe every day, beignets,” Vinet said. “We’re going to do Cajun donuts, we’re going to do our own bread for the restaurant and bread to sell. We’ll definitely do all the bread for the restaurant, the poboys, the muffulettas. Boudin balls, kolaches.”
The seafood will be local whenever possible and Vinet wants to deal with suppliers for his food.
“We’re going to buy direct from the fishermen,” Vinet said. “I’m going to send trucks all over the country. I’m not going to go through any kind of middle man. We’re going to go straight to the fishermen to buy directly off boats for shrimp, fish, oysters. We’re going to deal with farmer or the fisherman directly.”
The prime location adjacent to the bustling Buc-ee’s has the two partners anxious to get the project moving.
“We closed on it last Friday on the first three acres and I just bought three more acres directly in back of it on the Beach Expressway,” Vinet said. “We’ll have two entrances on that corner. We’ll have access from the expressway and from Buc-ee’s so it’s pretty exciting. Buc-ee’s is going to do $104 million just this year. That location alone. Unbelievable.”
THUNDER RANCH
The partners also have big dreams for the RV park they are planning to put on the Styx River where they hope to have a country store for all the camper’s needs, a restaurant on the water and a waterpark in future plans.
“I don’t want people to have to leave the facility to do anything,” Vinet said. “If you and your wife are there camping and you want a sack of crawfish, a few pounds of shrimp, some ground beef, whatever you want I’ll have a country store you can call and say ‘hey, I need this, this and this’ and we can deliver it to you for free on a golf cart and you never have to leave the property. Whatever you need, we’ll have it. Customer service is gone in America, honestly, and I want to bring it back. I just want people to come and we can serve ‘em. We create an experience for their kids and them to come back, we want them to come back and be long-term customers and that’s the kind of involvement we want to create.”
The permitting process for the park is still ongoing but hopes are to begin construction as soon as possible, Vinet said.
“We are beginning phase 1 which is a bar and food shack on the river,” Vinet said. “Phase 2 will be a 700-spot deluxe RV resort. Phase 3 will be an extreme water park with 50-foot-tall slides and five-acre beach and a one-smile lazy river. We will also have a 46-acre outdoor amphitheater that will hold 40,000 people for concerts , conventions and corporate events.”
"fish" - Google News
October 27, 2021 at 12:54AM
https://ift.tt/3vMUd5j
Cajun restaurant, fish market planned on land near Buc-ee's - OBAwebsite.com
"fish" - Google News
https://ift.tt/35JkYuc
https://ift.tt/3feFffJ
Bagikan Berita Ini
0 Response to "Cajun restaurant, fish market planned on land near Buc-ee's - OBAwebsite.com"
Post a Comment