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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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 tropical cocktail and oyster bar that outgrew St. George Street and moved in 2025 to a bigger room on San Marco Avenue with its own parking lot. It claims Florida's most expansive selection of high-end rums, and promises the only thing frozen is the drinks.
Owners Mike Hyatt and Cindy Stangby cook local seafood, lamb and veal with international flavors, everything from scratch, behind a set of wooden doors on Hypolita Street. It has made OpenTable's Top 100 restaurants in America more than once, and its sister restaurant is Blackfly on Anastasia Island.
A French bistro that opened in February 2024 in the Jefferson House on Bridge Street, the Victorian that used to hold Preserved. Chef Michael Lugo brought in Matthieu Landillon from Marseille, and you choose between the dining room, the wraparound porch and the garden patio. Walk-ins are usually seated.
Chef-owner Barry Honan cooked as a sous chef at the Michelin-starred Le Bernardin in New York before turning a run of pop-ups into this room in 2023, and MICHELIN Recommended it in 2026. Reservation only through Resy, with tables held to about 90 minutes.
Chef Peter Kenney's restaurant spent 21 years on St. Augustine Beach before moving to Anastasia Island in 2025, into the remodeled Gypsy Cab Company building. The menu marks vegan and gluten-free dishes, and the kids menu is billed as Kids, Tweens & Teens.
Genie and Jeff McNally's farm-to-table Southern kitchen, founded downtown in 2010, reopened in 2026 in its own building on Old Beach Road. The menu names its farms and marks vegan and gluten-free plates, and tofu or tempeh goes on most of them.
The only fully plant-based kitchen in this roster: a cafe and juice bar using organic, non-GMO and local ingredients where it can, with cashew cream cheese and carrot lox on the bagels. Founder Chef Forrest Masters came up through the Present Moment Cafe and the Ann Wigmore institute.
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