Sports & Game Day St. Augustine: Old City
The historic district between the Castillo de San Marcos and the Bridge of Lions: the pedestrian blocks of St. George Street, the brick lane of galleries on Aviles Street, and the bayfront along Avenida Menendez. The densest run of restaurants and bars in the city, many of them in buildings with a century or two behind them.
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.
Lunch in the deep end of what was once the largest indoor swimming pool of Flagler's 1888 Alcazar Hotel, now the Lightner Museum. Classical guitar or piano plays from noon to three every day, museum admission is not required, and the cafe itself says reservations are highly recommended from October through March.
See Flagler Saints basketball or volleyball in Old City, with lunch, a brewery or dinner within a few blocks of the gym.
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.
Family-owned for 16 years: owner Adamo and his two sons cook from recipes handed down through the family and greet the tables themselves. It sits on Aviles Street, the brick pedestrian lane of galleries, and the room fills fast enough that Visit St. Augustine suggests arriving early on weekends.