Find the Right Jacksonville Bar for Tonight

Name: Cowford Chophouse
Address: 101 E Bay St, Jacksonville, FL, US
Price range: $$$$

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Venues in this guide

Aardwolf Brewing Company

San Marco · $$

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.

Bold City Brewery

Riverside · $$

Mother-and-son founded, and still the brewery most Jacksonville drinkers name first. The Rosselle Street taproom is the original room, on a Riverside industrial block rather than a retail strip.

Strings Sports Brewery Springfield

Springfield · $$ · american, pub food

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.

Strings Sports Brewery Jacksonville Beach

Jacksonville Beach · $$ · american, pub food

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.

Dos Gatos

Downtown · $$

A cocktail lounge on Forsyth across from the Florida Theatre, open since 2009, which in downtown Jacksonville bar years is a long time. The pre-show and post-show room for anything at the Theatre.

The Volstead

Downtown · $$

A Prohibition-style whiskey lounge on Adams Street, named for the act that made it illegal. Its own posted hours run to 2 a.m. every night, which is the whole case for it on a list about late rooms.

Shantytown Pub

Springfield · $

A longtime Springfield dive with an outdoor area and room for dogs. Go when you want a neighborhood bar that still feels like one.

Pete's Bar

Neptune Beach · $

Duval County liquor license number one, issued in 1933 the year Prohibition ended, in a building that was Jensen's Market before that. Cash, pool tables, and no interest whatsoever in being discovered.

The Lemon Bar

Neptune Beach · $$

A bar on the sand at the end of Lemon Street. Several listings still carry an old Atlantic Boulevard address; its own site says 2 Lemon St, and the ocean is the rest of the description.

Cowford Chophouse

Downtown · $$$$ · steak, chophouse

A restored early-1900s building at Bay and Ocean, with a rooftop bar that is one of the few places downtown where you can actually see the city you are standing in.