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RESTAURANT VENUES

Trust me when I say, St. Augustine has probably some of the most fantastic restaurants in all of Florida.

If you do opt for a restaurant celebration, or if you wish to combine anyone of the above with a restaurant venue, your biggest decision is where?

Here are a few ideas, and yes, we did sample the scrumptious food in each of the following dining establishments- all received excellent grades and passed the test with flying colors!

Raintree Restaurant
102 San Marco Avenue
St. Augustine
Tel: 904-824-7211:
Email: raintree email@aol.com
The Raintree Restaurant is an 1879 restored Victorian home, where weddings are celebrated in their beautiful courtyards and gazebos. The Raintree has been classified as one of Florida’s best restaurants for the past 20 years, and after sampling some of their dishes, Lily and I understood why so many couples have chosen this venue.

The building housing the restaurant is a replica of the yacht that brought the MacDonald family to North American from England. These brave individuals left their native homeland on a 45-foot yacht in 1979, after selling all of their assets in order to make a new life in the USA.

If your party consists of fifty persons or less, the restaurant’s gazebo area and courtyard is a great place to have a wedding. The iron gates located within the courtyard can be decorated with flowers and other trimmings. Trellises and archways can be rented and decorated and they can be set up along the paths for the bridge to walk through on the way to the ceremony.

Menus are varied and they do have the personnel to help you organizing your important event.

The beauty of this venue is that in the event of some nasty weather, which is always a possibility, the interior of the restaurant facilities can be an alternative. The Raintree’s wedding staff is the same as their regular staff and this means that they don’t just "hire out" part-time banquet personnel. They also do not have a minimum of a few or more thousand dollars that are often the case in many other restaurants.