A Hospitality Group — Jacksonville, Florida

A family of restaurants,
each with a story worth lingering over.

Pearl Hospitality is a small strand of independent kitchens, cafés, and rooms across the First Coast — gathered under a single name and made with the same patience.

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A Letter from Pearl

A small strand of Pearls.

Pearl Hospitality is the family behind a small, considered collection of restaurants, cafés, and a catering kitchen across Jacksonville and the First Coast. We don't run concepts. We tend to places — each with its own chef, its own neighborhood, its own quiet conviction about how a guest should feel.

From a sunrise café in Riverside to a late-night izakaya in Jax Beach, every Pearl is set the same way: slowly, particularly, and never in a hurry to impress.

We don't believe in the empire. We believe in the room.

— Raymond De Padua
Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Our Concepts

Our Pearls.

Eight Pearls, one strand — each set with its own hand.
Open
NorikaseDeerwood

Jacksonville's premier upscale Japanese dining — omakase and sushi at the counter.

Upscale Japanese · Counter · Reservation
Open
Izakaya KoJax Beach

A late kitchen and a longer night. Sticks from the grill, hand rolls at the counter, cold beer, slow rooms.

Modern Japanese · Counter · Bar
KotoListening Bar & Izakaya
Coming Soon
KotoForsyth · LaVilla

A listening bar and izakaya — vinyl, sake, and a quieter kind of late night.

Listening Bar · Izakaya · Opening 2026
Open
Beachside SeafoodJax Beach

Fresh, locally-sourced coastal seafood in a relaxed dining room and a counter market.

Seafood · Market · Casual
Open
Cafecito JAXRiverside

Cuban coffee, pastelitos, and unhurried mornings on the corner.

Café · Coffee · Breakfast
New
Soupa! Noodle BarSouthside

A daily pot, a hand-pulled noodle, a stool at the counter. The newest Pearl on the strand.

Noodle Bar · Counter · Lunch & Dinner
Davoli'sCatering
Open
Davoli's CateringJacksonville

Pearl's private kitchen — weddings, corporate, family tables. Built around the chef, not the brochure.

Catering · Private Events
Newest Pearl
Bagels R UsJoining the Strand

Hand-rolled, kettle-boiled, baked at 4am. The First Coast's most-loved bagel shop, now part of the Pearl family.

Bagels · Sandwiches · Coffee · Daily
Behind the Counter

The people tend the rooms.
The rooms tend the guests.

Every Pearl is built around the same small bet: hire patient people, give them a beautiful room and a chef worth working for, and the rest takes care of itself.

The Knife
The Flame
The Counter
The Plate
The Pearl Standard

A standard we keep across every Pearl.

Every Pearl sources from the same short list of growers, fishermen, and roasters along the First Coast. We share suppliers, but never menus. The fish at Norikase comes off the same boats as the kitchen at Izakaya Ko — they just speak about it differently.

It's how eight Pearls keep their own voice, while still sounding like one strand.

The Strand, in Numbers

Grown one room at a time.

Pearl has built its strand through Pearl Capital Fund — a portfolio of operating concepts and the real estate underneath them. Numbers below reflect the March 2026 portfolio sheet.

08
Concepts Open or Pipeline
13
Operating Entities in PCF
03
Markets · JAX · St. Aug · Sarasota
$5M+
Fund Equity Deployed
Private Dining & Events

Rooms for twelve, or for the whole room.

Each Pearl takes a small number of private bookings each season — rehearsal dinners, board lunches, family tables. Or work with Davoli's, our private catering kitchen, for events off-site.

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As Seen In
Eater
The Infatuation
Garden & Gun
Bon Appétit
The Florida Times-Union
"A restaurant is a long argument between the people who built it and the people who keep coming back. The good ones don't try to win it."
— Raymond De Padua, Co-Founder