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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Brick Restaurant
A brick-walled American restaurant with stained glass, a bar, and a patio looking onto St. Johns Avenue. It serves lunch and dinner through the week, then turns into one of the village's brunch rooms on weekends.
Cork Thyme Wine Bar
The former All Spiced Up shop grew into a wine bar, bodega, and small market without leaving the avenue. The back lounge handles wine flights and live music, while the sidewalk seats keep it connected to the village outside.
Josephine
An Italian-American dining room in the middle of the Shoppes of Avondale, built around fresh pasta, cocktails, wine, and the memory of the owner's grandmother. Dinner runs all week, with brunch on Saturday and Sunday.
MOJO No. 4
The Avondale room in the local MOJO family has served barbecue, Southern sides, whiskey, and blues on St. Johns Avenue since 2011. The patio and giant onion rings make it hard to mistake for a quiet takeout stop.
Sushiko Japanese Restaurant
An Avondale sushi room with a separate vegan menu and far more than cucumber rolls. This is the mixed-table choice when one person wants traditional sushi and another wants rolls, appetizers, and entrees built as vegan food from the start.
The Blue Fish Restaurant & Oyster Bar
A seafood and raw-bar room on the village strip with a courtyard, weekend brunch, and a weekday happy hour. Blue Fish sits across St. Johns Avenue from the shops and patios that make this part of Avondale feel like one place.
The Casbah Cafe
A Middle Eastern cafe and late-night lounge in the Shoppes of Avondale. The weekly calendar moves through happy hour, trivia, live music, belly dancing, and a Sunday jazz jam that keeps the village awake after dinner.
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