About the restaurant
Blue Bamboo Restaurant and Wine Bar offers an extensive wine list, full bar, and beverage-friendly appetizers, entrees and desserts. The restaurant features a cozy wine lounge and comfortable patio seating. Blue Bamboo is open for lunch Monday through Friday, and for dinner Monday through Saturday. The restaurant offers food and ambience that keeps the best of Asian food roots, while adopting the level of service and atmosphere that is uniquely American.
Executive Chef and Proprietor Dennis Chan's family has been award-winning restaurateurs in Jacksonville for a long, long time. Decades, in fact. Rather than being a celebrity chef with TV shows and fancy million dollar restaurants, he and his family work diligently in the kitchen to bring you the best Hip Asian Comfort Food around.
On our Soapbox
We are not at all snooty about what we do. We cook because we like to, not because we want to show off. (Does it really make it taste better if you know that your tomatoes are from San Marzano, Italy?) Rest assured, we do use the good stuff. You can taste it in what is placed in front of you. We aren't going to tell you that we serve organic this, blah blah farm that, and free range whatever. That's so pretentious, and we'll have no part in it. Just know that we always buy the best that we can so that we can deliver an amazing product to you. We do buy organic ingredients when we can, and purchase locally grown ingredients when they are available.
No, our place isn't Wok this or Dragon that with a 2.99 combo that allows you pick from columns A, B, and C. We believe that you get what you pay for and that we offer great value in what you get. Yes, our cooking will knock your socks off. Believe us. After 5 years, the good word is spreading, and our very hard working chefs, and all the wonderful people who work at Blue Bamboo, very much appreciate your patronage.
About the Executive Chef
Dennis Chan is a Graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, and has worked with Ming Tsai of PBS' Simply Ming and Blue Ginger. Chan is also the author of HIP ASIAN COMFORT FOOD, and teaches cooking classes at the local community college, and at Blue Bamboo.
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