Restaurant Rebirth

When Eve Alves bought the property that once housed the Jacaranda restaurant on Sanibel in 2017, she was ready to create a space truly her own. So she gutted everything and completely redid the restaurant, opening it up as the Jac Sanibel Island Bar & Grille in May 2018.

“When you walk into the Jac you see me,” says Alves, 50, a native of Florida who attended culinary school in London. “From the floor to the tables to the menu, everything there shouts Eve Alves. It’s not someone else’s brand; it’s my brand.”