Curtin and Pardue are formerly of Leonardo's 706 in Gainesville. The restaurant is currently open for dinner seven days a week, but a Sunday brunch, with music in the courtyard, is being planned. Panera Bread will open on Hendricks Avenue in San Marco Monday morning. The bakery and restaurant features breads, pastries, bagels, sandwiches, salads and speciality coffees. Local franchise owners Carol and Lloyd Hager already have a Panera store on Baymeadows Road and just signed the papers to build one on Third Street in Jacksonville Beach, a freestanding building in the parking lot of Pablo Plaza.
Opening is planned in late summer.