We’re proud to introduce you to Jaybird’s Restaurant located at 2600 North Ponce de Leon Boulevard or Highway 1 in beautiful St. Augustine, Florida. Previously the restaurant was an IHOP, but had been sitting idle until early 2012.

We’re Rainer and Julie Martens, co-owners of Jaybird’s. We gutted the inside of the IHOP and built a completely new, open restaurant.

• New plumbing and electrical
• New heating and air conditioning
• Refurbished kitchen
• Spacious restrooms, and
• Four attractive spaces to eat and dine

We are pleased and excited to introduce Chef Mark Langston as our new head chef at Jaybird’s, bringing 30 years of experience with exciting culinary favorite’s and creations for you to experience. "Using the best local products and fresh to the table ingredients is important", say’s Chef; "we want our guests to experience great food."

Chef Langston is excited to start introducing his daily breakfast and lunch specials as well as fresh made, in house, signature bakery items.  He will be taking what we started at Jaybird’s to a whole new culinary level of excellence in Breakfast, Lunch and our Pizzeria.

Chef Langston is currently working on his cookbook, "Look Who’s Cooking", featuring local chefs from our Historic St. Augustine and Jacksonville Fl. He is a family man, married 29 years, with 6 children. His passions are, of course, cooking great food, motorcycles, fishing and the water.

From an owner’s perspective, Chef Langston has the leadership, cooking experience and great personality to make Jaybird’s many loyal guests for years to come. Please join us in welcoming Mark soon for Breakfast, Lunch and great Pizza.

Rainer Martens and his wife Julie have assisted in the planning and financing of the restaurant. Rainer has provided the photographs that are displayed throughout Jaybird's. You can read more about the photography by clicking here.

Rainer was a sport psychologist and professor at the University of Illinois for 16 years and then founded Human Kinetics, the world’s largest publisher of sports and physical activity information. He’s now retired and busy pursuing his passion for softball and photography.

Julie Martens received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1978. She was the first employee at Human Kinetics and rose to the position of Executive Vice President before she married Rainer in 1992. Julie is also retired, loves to travel, is a fine photographer, and now is passionate about pickleball.