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pbc - 9-4-2013 at 05:27 PM
On the matter of food, last fall, Nick and I did a buggy weekend at Jekyll Island and ate at Tuptim Thai on the northeast side of Brunswick on US 25.
The food there is great.
At the time they said they were going to open a new restaurant on Jekyll. It was supposed to be open by JIBE. Unfortunately I don't see mention of
the new restaurant on their web site or Google maps. Even if you have to drive into Brunswick, they are worth the drive.
Philip
acampbell - 10-4-2013 at 03:58 AM
Tuptim Thai is a great restaurant with generous servings, great prices and great service. They have another location in JAX and I think that is how
they get their authentic ingredients (ya won't find that stuff in Brunswick).
If they were talking about opening a place on Jekyll Island ( I had not heard that but this is good news) then they were caught up in the construction
delays for the two new hotels on the Island. That had been something of a chicken-egg conundrum, since the development of the retail village near the
convention site in front of the new round-about was predicated on the new hotels to be built there. Financing for the hotels had fallen through last
year but that has now been resolved and ground is being broken for them to open in 2014. That will generate the foot traffic needed to make new shops
and restaurants economically viable. Convention center bookings have already exceeded expectations and budgets, so the hotels and related
construction looks promising.
Many visitors commented last year that the new convention center looked good but the back end of it, facing the round-about when you first get on to
the island, looked like the ugly back end of a shopping mall. All that space will be filled in with shops, restaurants and hotels, complete with
landscaping and aesthetic details consistent with the rest of the development that people have liked.
This is not over-development. By law, any new construction must happen only on the site of old construction and the ratio of 35% development and 65%
natural environment and nature preserve will be maintained.
You will find Tuptim Thai on Route 341, just north of I-95 exit 36, on the north end of the Winn Dixie shopping Center. Highly recommended. Thanks
Philip.
flyguy0101 - 10-4-2013 at 05:19 AM
Tuptim Thia is a favorite of ours as well, we always eat there at least once a visit. Very good and worth the drive off the island
in my book.
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