Your Place Bar & Grill — Restaurant in Jacksonville

Security checked our ID with a flashlight when we came and let us through. Took the bartenders quite sometime to come serve us. Bartender asked for and refused our IDs because we were from Pennsylvania, but neither bar tender understood what “not for real ID purposes” means. One of our IDs has the real ID star but two of us haven’t updated our IDs yet since it isn’t fully effective until 2025. I looked it up and this is a Real ID compliant state, and our IDs should be accepted nationwide whether they’re real ID or just normal IDs. Real ID is for the airport and government buildings. It’s not in effect 100% in my state yet. Otherwise it was a decent atmosphere. The band was killing it — they’re why I left two stars instead of one. First time here and this was the only BUST of the trip. I’ve purchased alcohol plenty of times here since the beginning of my trip with no issues. Even had the things scanned. As a 22 year old that’s been to plenty of bars and clubs around the Pittsburg area, I do NOT recommend this bar to younger folk. It’s definitely for the older crowd. It’s very obvious they do not check IDs much since the crowd is mostly older. Not only that but they’re probably only used to seeing Florida locals. They definitely haven’t seen a Pennsylvanian license before, but I feel like if that’s your job you should be able to identify the key features of a genuine ID, and a dark bar w/out a flashlight doesn’t help. I used my DL to get through tsa and fly here and to get a car rental. Educate the bartenders. Kuddos to the security guard though. He knows...

My husband, in-laws, and I just moved to the area and decided to try YP's and find a new place to frequent. I wish that we had the bartender that others described. Ours was taciturn and not very attentive. He took our orders right away, and left to talk to his buddies at the end of the bar, which wasn't a problem at all. We'd initially come to also eat, but there were no menus around. We tried to get his attention, but he was pretty focused on his conversation. When we finally got his attention My husband asked for a menu, the bar tender gave him one, and started to walk away, my MIL asked for one as well. He gave her one. I decided to share the menu with my husband since I was just getting a really weird vibe from the guy. I wanted to like this place, but we'll just have to find a different hang out. The food isn't great even for bar food. It's all frozen stuff, which is fine, but I don't understand how people are raving about how great the food is.

ETA response to owner's question: Monday 5/17...

The only thing I liked was the band basically there is a security guard outside he checked our ids an let us go in two of us are 22 and one is 21 but when we got to the bar after a long wait they asked for our ids again and they said they couldn’t serve us drinks because one of the ids said not for real id purposes which means that the star was not on the top which is only for governmental buildings and maybe airport not officiated yet tho. But they said that both of them said not for real id purpose which is wrong because my id did not say anything along the lines of that because mine is a real id. This place is not welcoming to visitors so if you are young and traveling I would...