About Garden Street Bistro
Our story, from day one in 2020.
Garden Street Bistro — what started as a dream within a dream — is now a reality.
Years ago, a lifelong pizza chef came to Fernandina Beach with the dream of opening a pizzeria to spend the rest of his days throwing pies. He found an old, abandoned bistro in a historic building for rent on the outskirts of the bustling downtown business district, and he started working on building his pizzeria.
By the second week he realized the work needed to convert the tiny breakfast kitchen into a busy pizza kitchen could take months or longer, and a schnauzer-sized fortune to complete. And during this time, people kept walking into the bistro looking for pancakes. A spark came to the mind of the pizza chef: he could open for breakfast while he worked on the plans to open his dream pizza kitchen. That's the moment Garden Street Bistro was born.
Exactly two weeks later, on January 1st, 2020, Garden Street Bistro opened its doors serving all-day breakfast to a hungry crowd of southern-style breakfast seekers. The day-one menu included eggs and toast with bacon or sausage, and pancakes, along with coffee and juices. Business grew fast, the menu grew, and despite setbacks due to Covid-19, business boomed.
The bistro started as a single room with both dining and an open kitchen, with a couple of tables outside in our courtyard. That single room is now our kitchen, and our dining room is in the house on the other side of the courtyard. In our fourth year, the pizza chef finally opened his pizza kitchen — Pizza Street Kitchen — in what used to be the original dining room.
Today we serve our full brunch and lunch menu every day we're open from 8am to 3pm, Pizza Street Kitchen pizza, and dinner on Mondays and Fridays from 3 to 9pm — now with a new full liquor bar. We started with nothing but a kitchen sink and built a kitchen with one goal in mind: to deliver food using the best ingredients and the freshest produce possible. We want our guests to feel as if they are stepping into another world — an oasis away from the noise and stress of everyday life, where unique flavors await your palate.
Best Brunch 2026
We're honored that readers of the Fernandina Beach News-Leader voted Garden Street Bistro their 2026 Readers’ Choice for Brunch. Thank you to our guests, our neighbors and our incredible team.
