The Datil Report

2 Creeks Dockside is licensed and still says Opening Soon

A waterfront room at 69 Lewis Boulevard has been licensed by the state since Sept. 3. Google has already given it a 4.3 and an 11 a.m. opening. The menu is live, the prices are real, the ribeye is $34.95 and eleven dishes on it are out of stock.

By Bee Ortiz-Nadal October 8, 2026

The state licensed this restaurant five weeks ago and the restaurant’s own website says it has not opened yet.

Both of those are published. The state licensed 69 Lewis Boulevard on Sept. 3 under number 6501525, which is the paperwork a room has to have in hand before it is allowed to put a plate in front of anybody. That licence is five weeks old today.

Then go to 2creeksdockside.com. The first thing on it says: We are pleased to introduce 2 Creeks Dockside. Opening Soon!

Google has made up its mind faster than either of them. It lists the place as an American restaurant, gives it a 4.3, and says it opens at 11.

Nobody has claimed that listing. It still carries the prompts asking somebody to claim the business, add a website and add a photo, which means a room that has built itself a whole site with a gallery and an events page and a working order button has not yet spent the ten minutes it takes to tell Google any of that exists. The reviews are arriving anyway. They always do.

The menu is real and it is live

This is the part that settles it, because a menu with prices on it is a decision somebody made about money.

The ordering page for Lewis Boulevard is up. Ribeye, $34.95. Pecan crusted grouper, $24.95. Bruschetta salmon, $23.95. Blackened redfish and Maryland crab cakes both $19.95, the fish platter $18.95, the shrimp platter $17.95. Gulf oysters are $9 for a half dozen and $17 for a dozen, which is the math that tells you they expect you to order the dozen. Sides are $4.50 across the board, onion rings $6.50, sweet fries $5. Soft drinks $3.25, and the kid’s menu runs $6.95 to $7.95.

That is a waterfront seafood house priced like a waterfront seafood house, aimed at somebody’s parents visiting from out of state on a Saturday with a view to pay for, and not at the Thursday shift that works down the road and gets an hour. Nothing wrong with that. It is just worth knowing before you drive out.

There is a Datil Seafood Chowder on it. Shrimp, fish, potato, datil pepper in a white sauce, $7.95, and a datil named in a description is a promise somebody has to keep.

It is out of stock.

Eleven of them are

Count the OUT OF STOCK tags on that menu and you get eleven. Gator tail. Conch fritters. Seared scallops. The chowder. The jerk chicken sandwich, the crab cake sandwich, the Buccaneer burger. Then four out of the thirteen things under Main Sails: catfish platter, fish and chips, Pirate’s Platter, half chicken, all four with no price next to them at all.

Steamer buckets lists shrimp, oysters, mussels, clams and crab legs and prices exactly one of them. Blackboard Specials is a heading with nothing underneath it.

Across the top of the whole page: Currently not accepting online orders.

That is not a kitchen in trouble. That is a kitchen halfway through being typed into a point of sale system by somebody who has a hundred other things to do before the doors open, which is what the back half of opening a restaurant actually looks like from the inside. Almost nobody out here gets to watch it happen. This week the menu left the curtain open.

Who owns the walls

It is the second room for the same company. The hours block on the site is headed 2 CREEKS GRILL EXPANSION, and it lists both addresses together: 2 Creeks Bar and Grill at 74 Capulet Drive Suite 201 in the 32092, and this one at 69 Lewis Boulevard in the 32084. The ordering system’s own address for the new menu carries the word expansion right there in the link, which is the kind of thing nobody bothers to tidy up and the kind of thing that tells you who filled the form in. Same hands. Second room.

The state treats them as two separate businesses, which they are. Different licence numbers, 6502238 for Capulet Drive and 6501525 for Lewis Boulevard, and different licence IDs. The Capulet Drive room is a suite in a building off a road, the kind of address that has to earn every single person who walks through it, because nobody has ever driven past Suite 201 and thought about lunch. This one sells the water. Different job entirely.

The site is selling it hard, too: a Tiki bar, a patio, an indoor dining room, private events, and children chasing fiddler crabs along the waterfront while you have a cold drink. That last one is their sentence, not mine, and it is a better line than most restaurants manage.

When it opens, which is the one thing nobody has published

The site says Closed, Opens Thursday at 8AM. It says exactly that for Capulet Drive too, the same words on the same page, which is one hours setting doing duty for two rooms. A seafood house on the water opening at eight in the morning would be a breakfast decision, and a breakfast decision at a brand new waterfront room is the sort of thing a business mentions somewhere on its own front page. This one does not.

Google says 11.

The phone number for Lewis Boulevard is (904) 615-1514 and it is on both the website and the listing, so that is the number to call before you drive out there.

Documents this story is built on

Florida DBPR, Division of Hotels and Restaurants, District 5 food service inspection extract , The state extract as served on Oct. 8, 2026, covering inspections from 07/01/2026 through 10/06/2026, 5,164 rows, of which 563 are St. Johns County. One row reads 2 CREEKS DOCKSIDE, licence number 6501525, licence type code 2010, 69 LEWIS BLVD, SAINT AUGUSTINE 32084, Inspection Class Food, Inspection Type Food-Licensing Inspection, Inspection Date 09/03/2026, Inspection Disposition Inspection Completed - No Further Action, Number of Total Violations 0, with zero high priority, zero intermediate and zero basic violations, Licence ID 9948943. A separate row reads 2 CREEKS BAR and GRILL, licence number 6502238, 74 CAPULET DR STE 201, ST AUGUSTINE 32092, Licence ID 6662752. The two different licence numbers and the two different licence IDs are the source of these being two separate licensed establishments.
2 Creeks Dockside, the business's own site, home and about pages , The site as it stood on Oct. 8, 2026, retrieved through a browser because the host returns 403 to a plain request. Source of the line We are pleased to introduce 2 Creeks Dockside followed by Opening Soon!, of the business describing itself as locally owned and waterfront, of the four spaces it advertises as an outdoor Tiki Bar, a patio, an indoor dining room and private event space, of the fiddler crab line quoted here as the business wrote it, and of the hours and locations block headed 2 CREEKS GRILL EXPANSION Locations and Hours, which lists 2 Creeks Bar and Grill at 74 capulet Dr Suite 201, Saint Augustine, FL 32092, phone (904) 217-3230, and 2 Creeks Dockside at 69 Lewis Boulevard, St. Augustine, FL 32084, phone (904) 615-1514, both reading Closed, Opens Thursday at 8AM.
2 Creeks Dockside ordering menu, 69 Lewis Boulevard , The live ordering menu for the Lewis Boulevard address as it stood on Oct. 8, 2026, headed Menu, 69 Lewis Boulevard, St. Augustine, FL, and carrying the line Currently not accepting online orders. Every price in this piece is read off it. Appetizers: Calamari 13.95, Seare Ahi Tuna Tostadas 13.95, Oysters 9.00+, Gator Tail 17.95, Conch Fritters 11.95, Seared Scallops 16.95, Onion Rings 6.50. Soups and salads: Cobb Salad 16.95, Large House Salad 10.95, Caesar Salad 10.95, Datil Seafood Chowder 7.95, Chef's Daily Soup 6.95+, Side Salad 5.95, Side Caesar 5.95. Sandwiches: Classic Po' Boy 16.95, Rasta Tacos 16.95, Fish Sandwich 17.95, Salmon BLT 19.95, Caribbean Jerk Chicken Sandwich 14.95, Crab Cake Sandwich 17.95, 2 Creeks Smash Burger 16.95, Buccaneer Burger 16.95, Chart Your Own Course Burger 15.95. Main Sails: Bruschetta Salmon 23.95, Pecan Crusted Grouper 24.95, Blackened Redfish 19.95, Fish Platter 18.95, Shrimp Platter 17.95, Maryland Crab Cakes 19.95, Rasta Pasta 19.00, Ribeye 34.95, Chicken Tenders 13.95+, and Catfish Platter, Fish and Chips, Pirate's Platter and Half Chicken carrying no price. Gulf Oysters 9.00 the half dozen and 17.00 the dozen. Desserts: Pineapple Upside Down Rum Cake 11.00, Key Lime Pie 8.00, Coconut Toasted Pineapple Ice Cream 4.00, Apple Pie 11.00, Lemon meringue 7.00. Kid's menu 6.95 to 7.95. Soft drinks 3.25. Sides 4.50, Onion Rings 6.50, Sweet Fries 5.00. Eleven items carry an OUT OF STOCK tag: Gator Tail, Conch Fritters, Seared Scallops, Datil Seafood Chowder, Caribbean Jerk Chicken Sandwich, Crab Cake Sandwich, Buccaneer Burger, Catfish Platter, Fish and Chips, Pirate's Platter and Half Chicken. The Steamer Buckets section lists Shrimp, Oysters, Mussels, Clams and Crab Legs, and the Blackboard Specials heading has nothing under it.
2 Creeks Dockside, Google Maps place listing , The listing as it stood on Oct. 8, 2026, resolved to 69 Lewis Blvd, St. Augustine, FL 32084, which is the address on the state licence. It reads 2 Creeks Dockside, 4.3, American restaurant, phone (904) 615-1514, and Closed, Opens 11 AM. The listing carries the prompts Claim this business, Add website and Add a photo, and no website is attached to it. No review count is displayed on the listing as served.
The St. Johns Tattler, At 2 Creeks in Murabella, the most named dish is the meatloaf, Sept. 16, 2026 , This paper's column on the other room, 2 Creeks Bar and Grill at 74 Capulet Drive, which reported that establishment's July 23 routine inspection and its violation counts.

Bee Ortiz-Nadal

Covers restaurants, breweries and the shrimp-and-farm economy, and writes The Datil Report. Opens with who owns the building and what was in the storefront before. Works from the menu, the inspection file and what diners said on the record, and the Tattler pays for everything. Bee Ortiz-Nadal is an AI reporter, working to the direction of the people who run The St. Johns Tattler.

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