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i'm chef jim richard after graduating the culinary institute of america
i built my own brand here in south walton and new orleans i've spent my life dedicated to creating
and eating the best food possible welcome to 30a beach bikes hey friends we're here
at the citizen in alice beach on beautiful highway 30a let's go try some great food
hello sarah welcome thank you very much how are you today
hi so good to see you thanks for having us thanks for coming would you like to
go see it at the bar that sounds like a great place to start always my favorite
thank you so much this is the place you can always tell when they have all of the great accoutrements
hi welcome hey how are you doing well my name is paul paul jim richard good to see you good to meet
you jim welcome to the citizens thank you so what makes citizen bar special well we make a hell of
a drink here excellent so many people have been talking about this remind me to forget you got it
tell me about it it's our take on an old fashion ah perfect little maple syrup okay not too sweet
okay and we smoked the glass what kind of flavor wood chips you got there this is pine
there's no better way to start dinner than with a great old fashion
that looks great
right
that's good and i do happen to like old foresters so cheers what's your favorite so i think my
favorite drink to make is the boardwalk bound we uh we used an empress gin on sort of a tropical
passion fruit fits the beach lifestyle huh absolutely perfect beautiful i like that
what's your straw made of it's an agave straw an agave straw ah so does it melt eventually
delicious not sweet it's uh refreshing yeah good beach drink thank you definitely one you
can have a second of that's how i measure a good drink you know you want another one paul tell me
what this is so this is our andiamo this is a special japanese shaved ice machine wow
that looks like 38. on diamo andiamo what was the orangish colored syrup in the bottom so it's a
house made vodka infused with rose ah very nice that is very refreshing thank you to
the citizen so this is the good part i got to taste three great cocktails that the citizen
phenomenal phenomenal and phenomenal i really can't pick one because this one is a great drink
for before dinner when you're getting ready for that beautiful entree coming off that beautiful
wood smoke grill back there this is very light and refreshing really nice way to start a great
a pair of teeth to start your dinner and this gin drink i think it's the one that you order a
couple of because it just keeps you coming back for more how you doing good how are you today
good how many oysters do you chuck a day uh busy days i would say probably 800. excellent where
are your where are your oysters coming from so we've got we run two oysters all the time we run
murder points they're from south alabama and then we also try to run what we call the big bend
region so from apalachicola florida down to say panacea are the the big bend region are those all
uh cultivated oysters they are uh they're they're yeah they're they're uh aquaculture
for sure boutique uh oyster company if you will glass that made yours perfect thank you very much
oh yes that'll go great with the oysters and definitely the murder point oysters are some
of my favorites for excellent you want to try some oysters thank you i'd love to absolutely
we do four different sauces it's a house-made cocktail sauce we do a house-made smoked red
fresno chili hot sauce two different minionettes what's your favorite way to
eat oyster you really you really can't go wrong with char grilled but i would say day to day raw
uh you get to taste the oyster i mean you know you can put as many delicious things on
top of an oyster but you know these would be i would feel like we'd be doing a disservice
to the oyster if we put a a pound of butter and parmesan cheese and all that stuff on top
all right mix dozen thank you very much six more points and you've got six panaceas
try that out look at that you can definitely tell the difference in
them this being the farmed oyster it's got a thinner shell and it's really beautiful
really briny icy cold and this would be the old murder point alabama
another one of the great oyster growing regions on the gulf coast they're creamier
they really have a lot more flavor yeah whereas these are delicious
but they're really briny and you can really taste the water they come from which makes them
really special absolutely absolutely always delicious thank you very much absolutely
excellent you have a beautiful oyster bar cheers cares to you now that i've had the best cocktails
and a pair of teeths and these beautiful oysters let's go see what the kitchen has to offer
hey chef how are you today good how are you beautiful what do you have for me
all right so the one right in front of you is the collaboration shrimp
so it's for a head-on uh u12 golf shrimp it's all done on the hearth grill for caution that
we actually make in house and then this is our basically our messy our hummus board great for
the bar great for sharing that is beautiful my love of my life is a vegetarian and that
would she would eat that completely by herself look at this thing beautiful head-on shrimp
nothing gives you flavor in a dish like the head of that shrimp it really transfers into the flavor
of the dish i love bold flavors the lemon and garlic and chili that comes through in the oil on
this shrimp dish really blow you away that fills your all of your senses roasted carrot hummus
this is where they're going to take us back and show us that hearth and grill
really complements the restaurants and the cocktails as well round two thank you round one
was exceptional what do you have here all right so like since you just mentioned the word vegetarian
we actually have our vegan salad in front of you this is our nice uh one shareable appetizer so
it's good it's a broad toast thank you very much enjoy it this is a vegetarian's dream
charred avocado you're not just eating for health you're eating for pleasure the eye
appeal the textures of the burrata and the english peas with the crispness of the house made bread
very well thought out this makes the 30a beach bites list of best bites i could eat the whole
thing but i have to stop because we have more food coming all right it's entre time
wow look at that so the idea of citizen is you know seafood coast you know it's a tavern store
but we also think globally on that so this is hawaiian kampachi okay because
thinking yeah we have the gulf coast which you've experienced already but now there's
other coast sure and then our joy would smoke short ribs so we slow spoken for about 10 hours
over the hearth if they need finishing we'll fish them in an oven easy to see the fresh ingredients
and the beautiful colors and the smells that come from this you can see how flaky and white
it is the acid from the satsumas that just gets soaked up by the german potato salad
the radish it is a beautiful dish i eat a lot of seafood but i also eat a lot of short ribs
you can see how tender this is you really don't need a knife the roasted vegetables are
exceptional and chef was right the acid that comes from tossing the vegetables interacts
great with the fattiness of that short rib it's a great combination how is everything there oh
man it's incredible awesome really really great attention to detail but i have to say
i'm tasting all these roasted flavors you have to show me where you're cooking this
you wanna come see the baby i would love to see the baby i love the baby we're going to the baby
whoa whoa whoa look at this bad boy seven feet of fire every chef's dream right here so this is
where it happens huh this is the magic happening so these are the short ribs that you just tasted
we just put them on a little bit ago okay so they're gonna smoke pretty much all day long over
there over over a low fire and then we'll use this hot this spot for cooking over a hot flame that's
awesome how much wood do you burn a week about a quarter quart a week a quarter quart a week
if not more that's a lot of wood this holds about enough wood for one day well it's worth it the
flavors that come through you can tell your staff is uh really really focused on what you're doing
i appreciate it thank you thank you for a great meal you're very welcome jim how are you i'm great
jeremy how are you what's up room for dessert uh well i tried to i had so much great food today
join me if you will absolutely absolutely really really enjoyed it's so easy to see the effort and
in every aspect of the restaurant what was the inspiration we felt like there was an opportunity
to do what we kind of jokingly refer to as the city restaurant but we wanted to do uh something
super approachable design forward uh you know and the three components that really drive it the bar
you know the wood burning hearth which you got to see and and really the space and the raw bar
well it's excellent for thought because every one of those aspects have come through we wanted to
be really diverse in what we did we didn't want to be perceived as just a seafood restaurant or
a meat centric restaurant because of the heart it's kind of become a family affair for us with
you know my wife my daughter works here and two of my kids are vegans and so they they wanted to
make sure that we had options where if you wanted to eat clean you could eat clean if you wanted
to eat comfort you could eat comfort keep up the great work thanks you're nailing it look at this
oh i appreciate it tell me about this so atlantic beach pie i spent a lot of time on the east coast
obviously before making my way to 30a and a dear chef friend of mine actually i got to give credit
here bill smith from crooks corner in chapel hill made this dish for me in an event we did together
and it was just blown away what makes this one unique is that in atlantic beach pie they used
saltine crackers and the cur and the crushed up in the crust okay yeah that little bit of sweet and
salty yeah and the butter that goes with that makes it uh super delicious well that is a an
excellent way to finish a great meal it's creamy and acidic and it's very light which is how i uh
always like to finish it give me both yeah thank you again cheers to your future success perfect
all right friends we're at the citizen phenomenal wood burning hearth oven fresh oysters creative
cocktails i can't say enough thanks for watching hit the subscribe button we'll see you next time