Chef Sean Langan heard the skeptics when he first opened Three Six Bistro in a tired little strip mall off Southeast 36th Avenue in Ocala less than two years ago.
They told him Ocala is a meat-and-potatoes town with an appetite that leans toward chicken fried steak rather than duck confit.
“People said that chef’s an idiot,” he recalls. “He doesn’t know where he’s at. That place will never make it.”…