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.
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.
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.
St. Augustine's only Irish gastropub by its own description, on Spanish Street since 2011 and open until 2 a.m. every night, with a late-night menu and a weekend brunch for late risers.
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St. Augustine's only Irish gastropub by its own description, on Spanish Street since 2011 and open until 2 a.m. every night, with a late-night menu and a weekend brunch for late risers.
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.
Comfort food and shrub-based cocktails on Aviles Street, the narrow cobblestone lane it calls the oldest street in the USA, in the space that used to be Cellar 6. It adds an optional surcharge that funds health, dental and vision insurance, maternity leave and paid time off for its staff, and it says so on its own site.
A cocktail bar in the 1927 ice plant building, with the original crane still on its rails over the bar and a 300-pound block of ice behind it. Fresh-pressed juices and house syrups at the bar, grass-fed burgers and local seafood from the kitchen, no reservations, and open until 2 a.m. on weekends.
A craft cocktail lounge and Southern Latin kitchen just over the Bridge of Lions, hiding a speakeasy, Charlotte 33, open Friday and Saturday for groups of two to six by reservation. Three private event spaces for 15 to 80 guests, and open until 2 a.m. on weekends.
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.
A flower-filled courtyard and upstairs bay views make Saint a tempting Italian dinner spot. Explore the menu and seating choices, then book the table you want.
Founded by 20 local families in the 1907 FP&L ice plant, the first in Florida to make commercial block ice, where the old ice-can numbers are still visible on the rails during the tour. Bourbon, rum, gin and vodka, with tours and tastings seven days a week.
The martini bar of the Casablanca Inn, spilling out onto the front verandah over Matanzas Bay. Its own site says there is no live music right now, while Visit St. Augustine still lists Friday jazz, which is exactly the kind of mismatch this site exists to measure.
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