Southern Grounds & Co.

Southern Grounds & Co. is a chef-driven coffee shop and all-day café near San Marco Square on Atlantic Blvd — with a string-lit train-watching patio that regulars plan their mornings around. Direct-trade Intelligentsia coffee. Mediterranean-inspired restaurant and scratch kitchen. Breakfast, brunch, and dinner. Walk-in only. Contact us about private events and custom catering. Online catering order for local teams and offices. Open daily 6:30 AM–9 PM.

Located at 1671 Atlantic Blvd, Jacksonville, FL 32207, Southern Grounds & Co. operates as a cafe serving Jacksonville in Florida. This page gathers the practical details people usually look for before visiting: where it is, how to reach it, when it opens and how customers rate it. Google also lists it under breakfast restaurant, brunch restaurant, coffee shop, which is worth knowing if you are comparing several options in the area.

Coffee in the United States is served by three kinds of places: national chains with drive-thrus and mobile ordering, independent neighborhood cafes that double as a workspace or a meeting spot, and specialty shops that roast their own beans or buy single-origin lots and brew them by pour-over, espresso or cold brew. Most open between 6 and 7 a.m. on weekdays, slightly later on weekends, and the busiest hour is the commute rush before 9. A drip coffee runs a few dollars, espresso drinks and specialty pours more, and tipping a dollar or a percentage on the card reader is customary but not required. Nearly every cafe offers free Wi-Fi, though some limit laptop seating at peak times or on weekends, and outlets are often the scarce resource.

Hours are published for 7 days a week. Typical hours are 6:30 am–9 pm. Hours in the United States do change around federal holidays and long weekends, so a quick call before a special trip is sensible. You can reach Southern Grounds & Co. at (904) 619-1503; calling is usually the quickest way to ask about availability, prices or directions. More information is available on its website, southerngrounds.com.

On Google it holds a rating of 4.6 out of 5 from 1,516 reviews, which is a strong result for a cafe in Jacksonville and suggests consistent service.

Jacksonville is in Florida, in the Southeast, where summers are long, hot and humid, winters are mild, and afternoon thunderstorms and the hurricane season from June to November can change plans at short notice. Traffic in Jacksonville peaks on weekday mornings and afternoons, so allow extra time then. Addresses read from the street number up to the city, state abbreviation and five-digit ZIP code; the map link on this page shows the exact spot.

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