A gluten-free bakery on San Marco Avenue whose baked goods are organic, dairy-free and naturally sweetened, with coffee, wellness lattes and toast alongside. Every purchase sends a donation to organizations fighting hunger in the city, and seating is a few tables, so plan on taking it with you.
St. Augustine's oldest Irish pub by its own count, open since 1992 in an 1878 family home by the Old City Gate. Owner Kelli Meacham spent 16 years as a county deputy before buying it, the porch is where the regulars people-watch, and it goes 21 and over after 7 p.m.
Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.
Argentine live-fire cooking from husband and wife Nick and Christie Carrera, on the San Sebastian River where the shrimp boats dock, MICHELIN Recommended in 2026. This is the original room; a second Asado Life has since opened in Jacksonville.
A self-serve tap house and sports bar just south of the City Gate on St. George Street. Its Instagram bio says 13 TVs to watch your fav teams, and recent posts promote college football game days.
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St. Augustine's oldest Irish pub by its own count, open since 1992 in an 1878 family home by the Old City Gate. Owner Kelli Meacham spent 16 years as a county deputy before buying it, the porch is where the regulars people-watch, and it goes 21 and over after 7 p.m.
Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.
Named for Catherine Usina, whose oyster roast for Henry Flagler's party in 1900 started a family tradition on the Tolomato River. The Usinas opened Aunt Kate's under the live oaks in 2009, boaters can tie up at the floating dock, and the steamed oysters and pilau are the family recipes.
Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.
St. Augustine's Caribbean Connection, in its own words, on the Tolomato River at the Vilano end of the Usina Bridge, with a boat dock and jet ski parking. Live music Thursday through Sunday, first come first served, with room for groups.
Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.
Lunch in the deep end of what was once the largest indoor swimming pool of Flagler's 1888 Alcazar Hotel, now the Lightner Museum. Classical guitar or piano plays from noon to three every day, museum admission is not required, and the cafe itself says reservations are highly recommended from October through March.
Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.
A broken-down convenience store rebuilt around 2001 into a breakfast spot and a music room that books national touring acts and comedians. Weekend breakfast buffet, dogs welcome on the patio, and in its own words: tourists for brunch, hipsters for the music, retirees for the pork barbecue.
This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.
A Second Spanish Period family home, restored and opened as Casa Maya in 2015, now known for octopus, ceviche and seafood paella. The patio has its own stage with live music three or four nights a week, and the restaurant says up front that the upstairs group room has no elevator.
Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.
An outdoor amphitheater under what the park calls the city's second oldest live oak, just off the busiest block of St. George Street, with seating for more than 250. Shows are free unless noted and open to all ages, usually 7 to 10 p.m., and it is a Sing Out Loud Festival stage in September.
This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.
A 1920 building at the Vilano Bridge roundabout with a Mediterranean kitchen that grows its own herbs and buys from local farms and fish markets. The Flamingo Room has live piano seven nights a week, and the courtyard does al fresco among tropical plants and fountains.
Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.
Three rooms in one building a block south of the fort: the Irish pub, Johnny's Oyster Bar upstairs with a deck over Matanzas Bay, and the Backyard's island bar. The house belonged to William Diskmuits, first president of First Florida National Bank, and the music runs daily.
Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.
An 1880s gristmill that became a bar in the 1950s, with live music every day and a treehouse-style room upstairs whose balcony hangs over St. George Street. The 2016 renovation turned up a forgotten water well and a two-foot gopher tortoise shell, and the 300-year-old pecky cypress went back on the walls.
This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.
A house with a longer resume than most of the city: Don Miguel Ysnardy built it around 1790, it served as one of St. Augustine's first hotels, and in 1961 it was moved to this spot on the bayfront. The O.C. White family has run it since 1992, with a garden patio, a balcony for the sunset over the bay, and live music in the evenings.
Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.
A craft beer and grilled cheese arcade bar just over the Bridge of Lions, with more than 35 machines from pinball to skee-ball, all on quarters, and a patio with bonfires when it cools off. Family friendly until 8 p.m., 18 and over until 10, then 21 and over, and there are no french fries, which it is not sorry about.
This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.
A Prohibition-era gastropub on the site of the old Genovar Theater, with live music every night and what it calls the longest bar in the city, built from 400-year-old heart pine reclaimed from the original colonial structure. Speakeasy booths downstairs, a balcony over the stage upstairs.
Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.
A sports grill on US 1 South with wings and burgers. Its own events page lists every NFL game on Sundays, Monday and Thursday night football, Wednesday trivia and Friday live music, and calls the room a college football headquarters.
Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.
A cigar bar and listening room on the cobblestone stretch of Charlotte Street, locally owned for more than 23 years, with live music daily, hundreds of craft beers and a fire pit outside. Buy a draft before 7 p.m. and a hand-rolled cigar comes with it.
This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.
The old Creekside Dinery on Gonzales Creek, reopened by Nathan Stuart and Margo Klar and now The BoatHouse, with a deck of about 4,500 square feet over the marsh, a fire pit and weekend music. Sushi and a raw bar next to the fried seafood, and weekend brunch with bottomless mimosas.
Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.
The Ponce family has run this spot on Salt Run since 1946, when the old Coast Guard gunnery station became a four-room hotel. Eat on the deck under a palm or in grass huts built over the water, walk-up only, with a 200-slip marina and live music on the Lounge Deck.
Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.
A beach bar and oyster spot on A1A Beach Boulevard. Its own site says 14 TVs and invites fans for College Saturdays and Football Sundays, and its events page lists live music.
Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.
Open since 1945, owned by the Leonard family since 1961, and still pouring 365 days a year. Two merchant marine sailors shipped home the teak bar and the grinning idol behind it, its own history runs from Gamble Rogers to Jimmy Buffett, and the house drink arrives with its own thunder and lightning.
This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.
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