Blackbeard's Triple Play Restaurant and Sports Bar — Restaurant in Jacksonville

I wish I would have taken photos. I try to support local everything as much as possible. Especially restaurants. I don’t want to give a bad review. But this place had the potential to make someone very sick. And multiple people seem to have the same bad experiences (if you’re local, it’s in social media a lot). They recently made “America’s Best” but I truly believe they needed to be on another show (Bar Rescue/Kitchen Nightmares come to mind). If this was an inexperienced owner, I’d take pity. But the owner brags about owning three other local establishments. He also seems to be making a lot of local enemies in social media circles on a personal level. I get growing pains, new employees and “off” days. This is beyond that. Learning that many of the good reviews are bought with discounts, gift cards or done by employees makes me sad. I read some harsh things before our visit but wanted to try anyway. Service: We walked into a sticky floor and an odd smell on a weekend during early dinner hours (5pm ish). Hostess took a minute to notice and seemed very new (not a complaint). Server was attentive but severely lacked training. I’m not exaggerating when I say we were checked on every 2-3 minutes to see if we had made up our mind. The menu is chaotic. It’s diverse but to a point of not making sense. When we asked questions, we didn’t get clarification until we finally asked for an employee who could answer them (manager). The poor manager was called to just about every table (5-6 occupied) for issues. I can excuse that employees can only do the job they are trained for. Not a single employee on the floor seemed to have any training at all. I can’t blame them as much as that should be handled by the owner(s?). The worst part FOOD. The beer on tap was warm. I tried to order 3 mixed drinks. All three couldn’t be made because they didn’t have the ingredients (they were in the menu). We ordered fried pickles and steamed oysters to start. It’s hard to mess up the pickles; they ranked the only thing that was okay (though you could taste that the oil was old). The oysters were inedible….not fresh and raw. When we told the waitress, she sent them back, they “steamed” the oysters on the plate they were served on and brought them back still completely raw. Manager argued they were not the same but we watched this take place. At this point, I opted to order “safe”. Figured meatloaf with green beans. I will eat canned, off label, green beans out of a can cold. I couldn’t eat these. They were rancid. That was a first. Called manager back over to be argued with again. I’m NOT super picky. But, if I’m paying what they charge for food, I expect edible to be a minimum. As we waited, contemplating whether just to pay the bill for food and abandon it or whether it was worth trying to talk sense into the manager, we see three surrounding tables dealing with the same thing. Sending plates back, not eating it, and trying to explain issues while exchanging looks at their plate they aren’t touching (one plate was even just a salad). Not a single table appeared satisfied. All of our meals (3 people) came out at three different times. Like 20 minutes to serve 3 plates different. I truly wanted to like this place. The decor was is cute and this has potential to be a gem of a themed bar/restaurant! But, right now, it literally is like an episode of “Bar rescue”. They recently had a filming with America’s Best but I think they got cast for...

I wish I was able to give this a negative star! What can I say, it was a huge disappointment. Visited this restaurant as a surprise for my partner. It was embarrassing surprise. The first red flag was that they never gave us a beer menu from the jump. The regular menu was the tackiest I’ve ever seen. The beer we wanted “wasn’t working” so we tried another. I know things happen but isn’t that too soon to have things not working in a newly opened location?! Anyways, that wasn’t even the worst part of it all. When we finally ordered, it took them 1.5 hr to prepare the food because the place was so “busy” and packed. The food (burgers, blackened chicken, mashed potatoes , fries and blackened Alfredo) finally came after running to the store and back. When I tell you, the beer was the best thing out of that place! The chicken breast was undercooked and I only had it replaced with another undercooked chicken breast. The meals were so unseasoned and needed salt, pepper and just a trip back in the kitchen. The pirates would not have been happy with the meals at all. I know they would have used some of the salt from the ocean to at least give the meat some kinda flavor! The food didn’t even look appealing at all. My home cooking display could beat this in just one go. Even it was just some cereal or pb&j sandwich. The place need to be closed down until they get their cooking, seasoning, plate display, beer taps and everything else that I couldn’t see together! Oh and the manager(the tall one) needs to wake up or stop whatever he is on because, I just don’t know. He took half an hour to come to the table after we reported that the food was undercooked to one of the servers. Came in acting like he’s doing us a favor by giving us gift cards, to come back to this place. Like, I wouldn’t return even if it was just for the beer! We gave those cards right back of course. He was very rude and just nonchalant about us being displeased with the service. The whole place is a mess! The outfits of those girls were just as terrible as the food. Shut it down until it all comes together! The fact that they replaced Twin Peaks with this; I know if that building could talk it would be calling out this place! VERY UNDERWHELMING AND SIMPLY A HOT MESS! If you are thinking about going here, save your gas, outfit, time and money. I don’t know if it’ll be worth it in a decade or so but it ain’t right now! And for those seemingly nice reviews on here; I know those ain’t no real customers. And if it is, they obviously missing a screw! I get the idea behind the name of the place but they don’t have to do the food like that too! It was a prison kinda experience for me and I’ve never even been to jail before! This...

This was our first time going to this sports bar since it converted from Twin Peaks. When we walked in, we were greeted and asked where we wanted to sit. We said the bar, and she further proceeded to tell us that we could watch whatever we wanted on any TV that we wanted. All we had to do was ask. Well, my wife is a Detroit Lions fan and wanted to watch that game, and I'm a Dallas Cowboys fan and wanted that game. The bartenders were very willing to help put the games on that we wanted to side-by-side, especially since there were only 10 customers in the entire building. As we sat there and watched the games, decided on food and drinks, the sun must have shined just right, and you could see all of the fruit flies/gnats flying around behind the bar. There was also a bartender in training, but there was no one else in the place helping. So our food sat under the warming lamp for some time, then we were not asked about silverware or condiments. The bartenders disappeared from behind the bar for long periods of time, which could not help the only customers in the building. Finally, we were able to get their attention by speaking up over the TV across the dining room. As more people filtered in, the longer the wait because there was nobody helping us, let alone them. When they were noticed, they got helped. Again, we had to speak up for the check because they were going to walk away again without checking on us. We paid the bill without a very good tip and left.

Now the food, the cheesesteak egg rolls, sounded good but did not taste anything like a cheese steak. The hush puppies and sweet butter were delicious. I ordered the Jalepeno Cheddar burger, again did not come with a sauce, and nobody gave condiments except for the ketchup on the counter. So I dipped the burger in that. The meat didn't have very much flavor, and if I didn't see the jalapeños in the middle, I never would've known they were there. When I picked the burger up the first time, liquid grease and fat poured from the burger so much I didn't want to put it back down on my plate and get the bun soggy. My wife ordered the mushroom Swiss burger and said the same thing. If she didn't see the mushrooms, the flavor was so bland that she wouldn't have known they were in there. Our fries ended up soaking up all the burger juices to the point of falling apart. So we didn't eat very many of them either. This was one of the worst experiences we've had in a long time. Don't plan...