Diners' Choice: Best Overall restaurants in Jacksonville / Northeast Florida

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Updated June 05, 2025

Looking for the best overall restaurants in Jacksonville / Northeast Florida? You’re in the right place. Each month, OpenTable analyzes nearly 2 million global diner reviews from the past four months. We sort the results by location and category to help you discover new favorite restaurants. It's a great partnership: you reserve, eat, and review. We listen...and deliver the results for all to benefit. Enjoy!

Dwight's Bistro

4.9

4.9 (1402)

$31 to $50

French

Neptune Beach

About the restaurant

Dwight's Bistro, located in Jacksonville, Florida, features a unique blend of dishes from across Europe. The restaurant has private party rooms available for 12 or 20 people. Dwight's Bistro features a wine list that is available by the glass or by the bottle. The starters on the menu offered at Dwight's Bistro includes a chef's cheese plate, pan cooked foie gras and escargot. Chopped salad, Caesar salad and palm salad are offered as well. Entres are served with a vegetable and ravioli and feature veal piccata, filet mignon and crab cakes. Handmade pasta choices consist of fettuccini carbonara, veal sausage spaghetti, ravioli of the day and angel hair puttanesca.

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PAULVIP

Dined on Jun 25, 2025

Perhaps the best restaurant in Jacksonvile excellent menu and food preparation.The very best servers and most importantly is the consistency of delivery.

ATHENIAN OWL

4.9

4.9 (316)

$30 and under

Greek

Baymeadows

About the restaurant

Since the 1960`s, the Triantafillopoulos family, at its restaurants in Athena, Greece and Jacksonville, Florida have worked with top quality materials showing respect for the food itself and the customer.

As of December 2017, their son Yiorgos and his wife Marilena would like to welcome you to a brand new restaurant in the heart of the city, The Athenian Owl.

Reflecting the heritage and the authenticity of Yia-Yia`s (our mother and originator of the first two restaurants) recipes, we add to her wonderful food our passion of representing Greek healthy cuisine at its best.

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Pete

Dined on Jun 18, 2025

Dining at The Athenian Owl is a fantastic experience. The food is delicious and freshly made with good portions for each dish. The service is always good and relatively quick, the ambiance and decor are nice and the owners are very friendly and welcoming.

13 Gypsies

4.8

4.8 (597)

$31 to $50

Spanish

Jacksonville

About the restaurant

13 Gypsies is a cozy, intimate Spanish tapas restaurant. You can also find the influence of other cuisines throughout the menu. Primarily utilizing Spanish techniques to prepare both creative and classic renditions of Spanish dishes, Chef Howard and Chef Kevan operate a true craft kitchen. The two of them prepare and cook most everything from scratch including breads, cured meats, cheeses, sausages, spice blends, pickled vegetables, and desserts. This practice of making nearly everything in house promotes waste-free cooking and higher quality food. Our wines are mainly from Spain, and our beer is Florida local. We are located in a two-story Spanish-style building built in 1923 by Henrietta Dozier, Jacksonville's only female architect in the early part of the 20th century. You will find eclectic, maximalist religious iconography adorning the walls and original floor tile. We have few tables, so reservations are highly recommended. Last seating is an hour and a half before closing time.

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JEFFREY

Dined on Jun 20, 2025

Get experience. Took some family members for their first time. We shared about 10 dishes. All of them were great. Wine selection was limited, but will definitely return.

Llama Restaurant

4.9

4.9 (2655)

$31 to $50

Peruvian

St. Augustine

About the restaurant

IMPORTANT INFORMATION :
We have 10 tables in our dining room and can accommodate a maximum of 5 people for any reservations. for large parties inquiries please email llamarestaurant@gmail.com with at least 2 weeks in advance.

IMPORTANT NOTE : DUE TO LIMITED CAPACITY AND LACK OF LOBBY WE REQUEST NO CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 8 FOR DINNER.
KIDS ARE WELCOME FOR LUNCH SERVICE FROM 11:00-2:00pm

TRAFFIC: Downtown Saint Augustine traffic during Nights of Lights season can result in up to 40 minutes delays. We suggest to be mindful of timing since we have a 15 minutes tolerance and a $25 FEE per person for LATE CANCELLATIONS and NO SHOWS.
Llama is an intimate space, please be conscious of noise levels in consideration for other parties dining with us and their respective occasions.

Thank you.

Marcel Vizcarra
Chef Owner

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Kristin

Dined 2 days ago

This was our third visit to Llama and this place is the sweetest. We had Gabriel as our server for the second time and found him attentive and knowledgeable. Fabulous food and presentation. A teeny bit pricy IMO for the NE Florida market but we will definitely be back!

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