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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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.
One of only two St. Augustine venues with a 2026 MICHELIN Bib Gourmand, and it says so on its own site, badge and all. A coffee counter, bakery and natural wine bar out on US-1 rather than in the historic core, with cardamom and cinnamon buns baked each morning and select evenings open for plates and wine.
A family-run vegetarian cafe in the old Present Moment Cafe spot on West King Street, where most dishes can be made vegan and the soup always is. Scratch-made breakfast and lunch, specialty coffee, house ginger mint lemonade, and parking behind the building.
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 healthy fast kitchen that started as a food truck and now serves wraps, bowls and smoothies on King Street, with a second location on US-1 at State Road 312. Vegan items are named on the menu, down to a cashew queso and a house vegan Nutella.
Family-run Greek and Polish cooking, from pierogies to spinach pie and stuffed cabbage, named for its crisp sugar waffles. Its website is an under-construction page, and listings now put it at 212 Charlotte Street, reached through an Aviles Street alley, where older write-ups say 9 Aviles. Treat the address as unconfirmed.
A surf cafe that started in Marineland in 2021 and moved to the San Sebastian marina in January 2025, serving breakfast and lunch from restored vintage vehicles with the marsh in view. The kids menu is called For the Groms, and the ice cream Airstream, Peace & Cream, shares the lot.
A barbecue cafe inside the Fountain of Youth parking lot, serving BBQ, wraps and subs with beer, wine and ice cream. Its own site tells the story of European roasting meeting Indigenous smoking, which is a fair amount of history for a lunch stop.
The city's other 2026 Bib Gourmand: a sourdough bakehouse on San Marco Avenue doing breakfast and lunch Tuesday through Sunday. MICHELIN lists it as plain Sunday; the sign, and everyone in Uptown, says Sunday Gathering Table.
A breakfast and lunch favorite that moved out of its Lincolnville cottage to a bigger place on West King Street, with more room inside and tables outdoors. Blue crab quiche, chicken biscuits and a datil BBQ Cuban, mimosas on the side, and no reservations or call-ahead.
A mostly vegetarian cafe in Westgate Plaza on State Road 16, where owner and chef Michael Ugarte uses certified organic produce when available and swaps in vegan or gluten-free on request. It doubles as a community board, flyers welcome.
A bakery under St. George Street's famous cedar tree, with a stone hearth oven and a separate smokehouse, turning out empanadas, picadillo and bread every day. Its own website has not been updated since 2013, so the address comes from Visit St. Augustine and Yelp, and those two disagree on hours. Do not plan around the posted hours until the bakery publishes a current schedule.
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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