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The restaurant offers Italian-American cuisine. It will fill the previous space of Barrique Kitchen & Wine Bar.

Owner Wen Raiti said the rising cost of food, rent and staff made it impossible for the organic restaurant to go on.

The listing comes less than a month after the waterfront Mandarin restaurant closed for renovations.

With three restaurants open and one coming to Jacksonville Beach, owners Rebecca and Adrian Gonzalez plan their fifth location in Nassau County.

Corks & Barrels will feature a different region for both wine and whiskey each month. There will be tastings, pairings and charcuterie boards for both wine and whiskies.

Two festivals — The Original Jax Taco Fest this weekend and the Jacksonville Taco and Tequila Festival next weekend — will both take place in the Urban Core, but they each will have something quite different to offer.

The restaurant is hiring staff for a possible September debut. Josephine will take the space of the former Barrique Kitchen & Wine Bar.

Taverna Oceana is set to open early next year next to the original restaurant. The space formerly was the Pure Barre studio.

The cake and cupcake bakery garnered national attention via Food Network, but it couldn't recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The project will add seven bar-height cafe tables, 28 chairs and eight stanchions at a cost of $3,983.