Published on May 26, 2026 at 3:37 pm
Free local news and info, in your inbox at 6 a.m. M-F. Sign up for the Jacksonville Today newsletter.
After creating a pop-up and catering restaurant with the theme of “cooking with conscience,” the team behind Naked Kitchen adopted a similar mentality in establishing the venture’s first brick-and-mortar location.
Spouses Brian Nelson and Alexandra Bowles Nelson, with partner Matt Johnson, built out Naked Kitchen in a nearly 100-year-old building in the Phoenix Arts & Innovation District in North Springfield.
Jacksonville Today thanks our sponsors. Become one.
The partners, who focus on using nonprocessed ingredients produced in environmentally friendly ways, not only revitalized the structure but also incorporated sustainability by reviving a professional oven for it and buying its plates, bowls, glassware and utensils secondhand.
Read the rest of this story at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a Jacksonville Today news partner.
