Palace Saloon

I stayed on Amelia Island for a business trip and had to venture into the oldest bar in Florida.  I asked the barkeep what were the specials and he said $1 Sweetwater 420's.  My ears went up and I said a round for me and my co-workers.  You can't get $1 Sweetwater anything even in Atlanta.  I enjoyed the pictures from the past and even bought a cool pirate shirt.  Good attentive barkeep and rich history.

Amazing dive bar, and imagine my pleasant surprise to find that stand-alone bars in Florida can still allow smoking! Everyone was friendly--as newlyweds (very newlywed, just a week after our wedding), people in the bar were buying us drinks and the bartender let us behind the bar for a photo with the historic decor.  My husband also forgot his credit card there, but the bartender heard that we were going to eat at Le Clos, and he brought it to us there. Awesome!

A note to the people writing reviews and complaining about the smoke: I cannot possibly imagine why you would go into a bar that allows smoking and stay there willingly--and then complain about the smoke on Yelp! You could see that people were smoking in there, right? You could see that there were ashtrays on all the tables, right? There are half a dozen non-smoking bars in a three block radius of the Palace Saloon. Get over yourselves.

Decent little bar, that is said to be Florida's oldest bar. Would of rated it higher had it been smoke free.