ABBQ Meat & Drink
Texas-style barbecue with a real kids menu and a large fenced backyard for cornhole and running around. The green space is the difference between eating with children here and carrying barbecue home.
Aardwolf Brewing Company
A taproom inside a former ice plant on Hendricks. The building does a lot of the work here, and a beer list has no way of saying so.
Ajua Mexican Kitchen and Bar
A Mexican kitchen and bar at Jacksonville Beach with its own vegan menu. Enchiladas, quesadillas, jackfruit birria, cauliflower tacos, and a full vegan entree give a mixed table more than one safe fallback.
Birdies
A Five Points bar on Park Street. We have deliberately tagged it with nothing we could not confirm first-hand, so its discovery profile shows how little a machine can currently learn about it, which is the honest starting point.
BellyUp! to Jax’s Best Bars
Bar specials & what’s not on the bar menu
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Jax Beach Brunch Haus
A full brunch room near the beach with a real vegan section, not one modified plate. Vegan pancakes, French toast, tofu scrambles, breakfast tacos, sausage, chorizo, and JUST Egg make this the useful answer when breakfast is the point of the trip.
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