Plan Your Visit · St. Augustine, Florida
Shopping in St. Augustine
Shopping in the Oldest City means colonial lanes lined with galleries and spice merchants, an antiques row on the old northern road, hot sauce made from a pepper grown nowhere else — and an antique mall in the deep end of a Gilded Age swimming pool.
The Main Corridor
St. George Street
The pedestrian spine of the old city is shoulder-to-shoulder with shops — souvenirs and sweets, yes, but also spice merchants, galleries, and local makers tucked between the colonial facades. Walk the full length and duck down the side lanes; the best finds hide on Hypolita, Cuna, and Treasury.
Galleries & Studios
Aviles Street
The oldest platted street in America is now its loveliest gallery row — working artists, co-ops, and studios in centuries-old buildings south of the plaza. Quieter and more atmospheric than St. George, and the place to buy art directly from the hands that made it.
The Flagler Corridor
King Street
The grand Gilded Age boulevard holds gourmet shops, chocolatiers, and one of the city's oddest treasures: the Lightner Antique Mall, a cluster of dealers set in the deep end of what was once the world's largest indoor swimming pool, behind the Lightner Museum in the old Alcazar Hotel.
Antiques Row
San Marco Avenue · Uptown
The northern approach into the old city is St. Augustine's antiques district — multi-dealer malls, vintage shops, and collectibles stretching up the avenue past the Old Jail. Park once and work your way down the row.
Saturdays · Mornings
Amphitheatre Farmers Market
Every Saturday morning, the grounds of the St. Augustine Amphitheatre on Anastasia Island fill with local growers, bakers, artisans, and live music beneath the oaks. Free, beloved, and the best people-watching on the island.
Brand-Name Bargains
St. Augustine Premium Outlets
Ten minutes west on FL-16, the outlet center delivers the national-brand bargain hunting — handy for a rainy afternoon or a deliberate shopping day away from the historic quarter.
Antiques · Multi-Dealer Treasure Hunt
Antiques & Things
62 San Marco Avenue, St. Augustine, FL 32084
The anchor of the San Marco antiques row — a sprawling multi-dealer mall packed booth after booth with jewelry, furniture, records, coins, nautical pieces, vintage clothing, and memorabilia of every kind. The kind of place where an hour disappears and you walk out with something you didn't know you'd been hunting your whole life.
HoursDaily, mid-morning to 5pm
Used Books · A Local Treasure
Second Read Books
51D Cordova Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084
A cozy, beautifully organized used bookstore behind Flagler College, run by owners famous for their kindness — they'll even hold your finds at the counter while you wander the old city. Great local history shelves and half-price treasures. The bookshop the Oldest City deserves.
HoursDaily, 10am–7pm
Datil Pepper Headquarters · Free Tastings
Hot Stuff Saint Augustine
34 Treasury Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084
The place to take the city's signature flavor home — a wall of datil pepper sauces, marinades, and honeys with generous free tastings down the line (the last bottle on the shelf is pure pain; you've been warned). The single most St. Augustine souvenir there is, on one of the quarter's most atmospheric lanes.
HoursDaily, late morning to evening
Spices · Teas · Blends
The Spice & Tea Exchange
59 Hypolita Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084
Step inside and the aroma does the selling — walls of jarred spices, custom blends, sugars, salts, and a deep tea wall, all open for sniffing, in a charming shop just off St. George. The kind of place you enter for one thing and leave with a bag of flavors you didn't know existed.
HoursDaily, 10:30am–6pm or later
Chocolate Factory · Tastings · Since 1967
Whetstone Chocolates
139 King Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084
St. Augustine's own chocolate maker since 1967 — a working factory store on King Street where you can taste your way through the production process, then load up on truffles, fudge, and the famous chocolate alligators. Sweet, affordable, and genuinely local.
HoursDaily, 9:45am–5:30pm
Olive Oils · Balsamics · Gourmet Pantry
The Ancient Olive
47 King Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084
A gourmet tasting room of olive oils and aged balsamics — sample your way through Tuscan herb oils and Sicilian lemon vinegar, then have your picks bottled and sealed for the trip home. One of the most consistently loved shops in the city, and the perfect gift for the cook in your life.
HoursDaily, 10am–7pm
Georgia Nick Gallery
11-A Aviles Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084
A welcoming local artists' gallery on the oldest street in America — paintings, stone work, photography, and books by the very people you'll often meet behind the counter.
Lightner Antique Mall
Behind the Lightner Museum, off Granada Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084
Antique dealers set up in the deep end of the old Alcazar Hotel's indoor swimming pool — once the largest in the world — beside Café Alcazar. Worth a visit for the setting alone.
Simple Gestures
4 White Street E, St. Augustine, FL 32080
An eclectic gift gallery on the Anastasia side — art, fine jewelry, and one-of-a-kind finds, gift-wrapped with care by owners who clearly love what they do.
St. Augustine Premium Outlets
2700 FL-16, St. Augustine, FL 32092
The big outlet center ten minutes west of downtown — dozens of national brand stores for a deliberate bargain-hunting day or a rainy-afternoon backup plan.