Jacksonville
Outdoor Kitchens.

A custom outdoor kitchen in Jacksonville runs $180 – $520 per linear foot of finished island installed, including cabinets, counter, the built-in grill, masonry, gas and electrical runs, permits, and stamped engineering. A simple stainless outdoor kitchen island with a built-in grill starts around $1,800 – $2,800; a typical 10-foot masonry kitchen with a stone counter and side burner lands between $3,000 and $4,200; a full build with a beverage center, prep sink, and ceramic-tile surround runs $4,200 – $5,200+.

The builder worth hiring is the one who treats this as a permanent improvement to your home, not a furniture install. We’ve built 500+ Jacksonville decks, patios, and outdoor kitchens across Duval, St. Johns, Nassau, and Clay counties. As a family-owned, licensed & insured team, we publish clear pricing, line-item every appliance, masonry course, and gas/electrical run, permit and inspect the full build so it adds clean resale value, and back the install and we stand behind our work. Get three quotes — then compare who actually breaks out the grill, the stone, and the labor separately instead of hiding it in one number. That’s usually where we win the job.

Yes. Any outdoor kitchen with a gas line, a plumbed prep sink, or electrical runs needs a permit in Duval, St. Johns, Nassau, and Clay counties — and a covered cook structure (pergola or roof) needs stamped structural engineering on top of it. We pull the permit, submit the gas and electrical plan, and schedule the inspections as part of your estimate. A permitted, inspected outdoor kitchen is also what keeps your homeowner’s policy and your future home sale clean; un-permitted gas work is the single most common reason these builds become a problem at closing.

On coastal builds — Atlantic Beach, Ponte Vedra Beach, Jacksonville Beach, Amelia Island — we spec corrosion-rated 304 or 316 stainless cabinets and grills and use marine-grade 316 stainless fasteners so the salt drift doesn’t pit the doors or the hardware in a couple of seasons. Counters are sealed natural stone or porcelain that won’t chalk in coastal UV. Cheaper big-box outdoor kitchen kits use thin 430-grade stainless that rusts fast near the ocean; matching the metal to the location is exactly what separates a built-in grill that lasts from one that doesn’t.

Often, yes — and making it read as one integrated space is the whole point. It comes down to the structure underneath. A heavy masonry outdoor kitchen island usually wants its own concrete footing or a reinforced slab; we won’t set a stone-faced island on framing that can’t carry it. A lighter stainless island can sit on a properly built deck or paver patio. During the site visit we check your existing framing, footings, and slab and tell you straight whether it carries the load or needs reinforcement — before you’re committed. And if you’re also planning a deck, paver patio, or pool deck, we design the kitchen and the surface together so the finished space lands as one project that flows, not a slab with a counter parked on it.

We run the built-in grill on code-rated gas line tied to your natural-gas meter or a dedicated propane supply, with a shutoff valve you can actually reach. The line is pressure-tested and inspected by the county before the island closes up. Electrical for the beverage center, lighting, and outlets runs on a GFCI-protected outdoor circuit, and a prep sink plumbs to your supply and drains to code. All of it is part of the permitted scope — never a hidden add-on after the masonry is done.

The entry build is a stainless island with a built-in grill and a stretch of counter. From there homeowners commonly add a side burner for sauces and boils, a plumbed prep sink, a beverage center or undercounter fridge, bar seating with a counter overhang, a pizza oven or Big Green Egg cutout, a vent hood under a roofline, and a ceramic-tile or stacked-stone surround to match your pool deck or paver patio. Because we also build pergolas and outdoor kitchens together, it’s common to wrap the kitchen with a pergola in the same project.

Any roofed or pergola-covered cook structure is engineered to the local wind code — 130 mph for inland Duval, 150 mph for oceanfront (Atlantic Beach, Ponte Vedra Beach, Jacksonville Beach, Amelia Island). Engineering includes hurricane-rated metal connectors at every connection, 24-inch concrete footings sized for uplift, marine-grade 316 stainless fasteners on coastal builds, and a continuous load path from the cover down to the footing. The masonry island itself is set on its own footing so it doesn’t shift. Permitted, stamped structures are covered under your Florida homeowner’s wind policy — un-permitted structures generally are not.