Best Bars in Florida

01. ★ Top Pick Closed

Orlando · Curry Ford West

The Commission Beer Chamber

The Commission Beer Chamber holds a ★4.9 across 400+ reviews on Curry Ford Road — a craft beer room run with curator-le…

★ 4.9 409 reviews $$

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Fort Lauderdale · Flagler Village

Invasive Species Brewing

Tucked into a converted warehouse in Flagler Village — Fort Lauderdale's emerging arts district — Invasive Species Brew…

★ 4.8 769 reviews

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Orlando · Audubon Park

Redlight Redlight

Redlight Redlight is Orlando craft beer's founding church — an Audubon Park hangout with an encyclopedic draft list and…

★ 4.7 844 reviews $$

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St. Petersburg · Grand Central District

Hawthorne Bottle Shoppe

The local beer destination on the west end of Central Avenue — 300+ bottled and canned beers, 75+ wines, and a deli cou…

★ 4.7 523 reviews $$

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Jacksonville · Springfield

Shanty Town Pubz

Shanty Town Pubz is Springfield's ★4.7 backyard bar — a converted-house patio hangout in Jacksonville's historic distri…

★ 4.7 422 reviews $

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Orlando · Milk District

Barley & Vine Biergarten

Barley & Vine is the Milk District's craft beer garden — a big pet-friendly patio with communal tables and a rotating t…

★ 4.7 414 reviews $

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Tallahassee · Southeast Tallahassee

Yummys Daiquiri Bar

Yummys runs Tallahassee's daiquiri game from Capital Circle SE — frozen drinks with real pour behind them, a ★4.7 crowd…

★ 4.7 206 reviews $

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Tampa · Seminole Heights

Common Dialect Beerworks

One of the breweries anchoring the North Florida Avenue corridor in Seminole Heights — a taproom contributing to the ne…

★ 4.7 132 reviews $$

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Fort Lauderdale · Downtown Fort Lauderdale

Tarpon River Brewing

Downtown Fort Lauderdale's original craft brewery, Tarpon River has been fermenting neighborhood pride since 2016. The…

★ 4.6 1,227 reviews $$

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St. Petersburg · Downtown St. Petersburg

Green Bench Brewing Co.

St. Pete's first craft brewery, opened in 2013, and still the most genuinely rooted in local identity. The name comes f…

★ 4.6 1,030 reviews $$

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Tampa · Seminole Heights

Angry Chair Brewing

The neighborhood brewery that defines what a neighborhood brewery should be — a rotating tap list that leans experiment…

★ 4.6 874 reviews $$

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Sarasota · Gulf Gate

Monk's Steamer Bar

Monk's is a Gulf Gate dive bar where Gulf oysters get shucked fresh at the counter. Sit, watch the shucker work, order…

★ 4.6 732 reviews $

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Jacksonville · San Marco

Sidecar

Sidecar is San Marco's exposed-brick cocktail saloon — house cocktails, microbrews, and one of Jacksonville's deepest w…

★ 4.6 586 reviews $$

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Tampa · Seminole Heights

Brew Bus Brewing

Part of the North Florida Avenue brewery corridor in Seminole Heights — Brew Bus rounds out what locals consider the be…

★ 5.0 28 reviews $$

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Tampa · Seminole Heights

Florida Avenue Brewing Co.

16 rotating taps alongside a full kitchen in a space that fills up on weekend evenings with a crowd that is authentical…

★ 4.6 189 reviews $$

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Fort Lauderdale · Downtown Fort Lauderdale

Stache 1920s Drinking Den

Fort Lauderdale doesn't have many legitimate speakeasy-style cocktail bars. Behind a modest Las Olas door, Stache deliv…

★ 4.5 590 reviews $$

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Tallahassee · College Town

Poor Paul's Pourhouse

Poor Paul's Pourhouse has been Tallahassee's cheerful dive since 1976 — cheap pours, darts, trivia, and five decades of…

★ 4.5 548 reviews $

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Miami · Pinecrest

Keg South Pinecrest

Keg South is Pinecrest's beloved dive-and-grill — cold beer, famous burgers, and decades of South Dixie regulars at ★4.…

★ 4.5 469 reviews $

19. Open

Fort Lauderdale · Croissant Park

Freddie's Anchor Sports Grill

Freddie's Anchor is Croissant Park's neighborhood sports bar — homemade comfort food, pool, darts, and every game on. ★…

★ 4.5 443 reviews $

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Jacksonville · San Marco

Locals'

Locals' is exactly what the apostrophe promises — the neighborhood's own dive on Kings Avenue: jukebox, pool, darts, sp…

★ 4.5 438 reviews $

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Tampa · Seminole Heights

Velvet Gypsy

Velvet Gypsy is Seminole Heights' moody in-between bar — divier than the craft rooms, cooler than the dives — holding a…

★ 4.5 405 reviews $

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Jacksonville · Arlington

Broken Spoke

Broken Spoke is Arlington's bar and grill on University Boulevard — cold beer, honest grill food, and a ★4.5 from the n…

★ 4.5 263 reviews $

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St. Petersburg · Historic Kenwood

The Kenwood

The neighborhood's own watering hole — opened by a St. Pete native, no pretense, and open until 3am. This is not a bar…

★ 4.5 245 reviews $

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St. Petersburg · Downtown

Bar@548

Bar@548 is a funky, art-filled bar right on Central Avenue — local artists on the walls, craft beer and cocktails at th…

★ 4.4 913 reviews $