Over 50 St. Augustine: St. Augustine Beach
The beach town along A1A Beach Boulevard near the county pier, with oceanfront tables, open-air decks and restaurants a block from the sand.
The only restaurant directly on the ocean in St. Augustine Beach by its own account, where A Street meets the sand, dating to 1965. Kids get tables at the foot of the restaurant's own dune and well-behaved dogs are welcome, both straight from its homepage.
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.
Jack's has barbecue in the name and on the menu, but locals know it better as a beach bar than a barbecue destination. It is one of the cheaper places to drink near the ocean. The current Visit St. Augustine listing says the kitchen closes at 9 PM while the bar stays open until 2 AM, which tells you which side owns the late shift. The unofficial Jack's rule is simple: if you are still there late, the night has probably done its job. Let somebody else handle the ride home. It has no official website, so the profile remains marked for re-checking.
Two bartenders turned a former Phillips 66 station into a Key West style beach restaurant in 1990. The upstairs deck is open air, with fans in summer and heaters in winter, the chowder is a Great Chowder Debate regular, and the bar pours St. Augustine Distillery spirits.
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.
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.