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.
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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.
European Street Cafe Riverside
The Riverside room of a Jacksonville family-owned group that has been here for more than 40 years. On Mondays, children age 12 and younger get a free meal and juice box with a regular adult entree and beverage at all three locations.
Ole Mexican Restaurant
A long-running Atlantic Boulevard Mexican room with a full kids menu. On Tuesdays from 5 to 10 p.m., one child age 10 or younger eats free from that menu with each full-price adult entree.
Sliders Oyster Bar
Seafood one block from the ocean with a kids menu, patio, turf, games, and putt-putt. It is an easy second stop after the beach because the meal does not ask a tired child to switch straight from sand to formal behavior.
Strings Sports Brewery Jacksonville Beach
The beach location of the family-owned sports brewery, inside the old Terry's Country Store. It keeps the same useful family formula: a scratch kitchen, kids food, games, and room to shoot baskets instead of asking children to sit still.
Strings Sports Brewery Springfield
A family-owned brewery in a restored Springfield building where the full-size basketball court and games give children something real to do. The kids menu includes popcorn chicken and grilled cheese.
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