Best Kava Bars in Daytona Beach (2026): The Local Guide

The Daytona area's advantage is that a small city packs a real spread of kava bars, and they group naturally by town. Below they are sorted by where they sit: Daytona Beach proper first, then Ormond Beach to the north, then New Smyrna Beach to the south. Any of them makes an easy pick depending on which end of the coast you are on.

Green Turtle Kava Bar (Daytona Beach)

📍 1500 Beville Rd, Ste 103, Daytona Beach, FL 32114 — Daytona Beach

If you want to understand the local scene, start here. Green Turtle describes itself as Daytona Beach's original kava bar and frames itself as a place to reset during the day and connect with friends over quality conversation. It reportedly pours kava alongside exotic herbal teas and premium coffee, and runs a steady calendar of events like live music, trivia, and pool tournaments. A genuine neighborhood anchor rather than a recent opening.

Driink Kava Bar

📍 204 N Beach St, Daytona Beach, FL 32114 — Downtown / Beach Street, Daytona

Driink sits right on North Beach Street in downtown Daytona, which makes it the easy walk-in if you are already near the riverfront or the downtown core. It reportedly keeps long hours, opening early and running well into the small hours, so it doubles as both a daytime coffee-and-kava stop and a late-night alcohol-free hang. As with most Florida bars, kratom is on the menu too; order kava specifically if that is what you want.

RAD Kava Bar (Rooting Around Downtown)

📍 113 W International Speedway Blvd, Daytona Beach, FL 32114 — Downtown, Daytona

RAD, short for Rooting Around Downtown, sits on West International Speedway Boulevard and leans into the botanicals-bar format: hand-crafted kava drinks, botanical teas in green, white, and red styles, kombucha, and coffee from a local roaster. Its own site lists it as open daily from around 8am to 1am, reportedly, so it is another spot that works morning through late night. Games and a social, downtown feel round it out.

NE Roots

📍 1437 S Ridgewood Ave, Ste 110, Daytona Beach, FL 32114 — South Ridgewood, Daytona

NE Roots is a newer Daytona kava bar on the South Ridgewood Avenue corridor, reportedly open long daily hours and known for a coffee-plus-kava, work-friendly vibe with wi-fi. A solid pick if you are on the south side of Daytona rather than downtown, or want somewhere you can actually sit and get things done over a shell.

Kava Kula Kava Bar & Lounge (Ormond Beach)

📍 142 E Granada Blvd, Ormond Beach, FL 32176 — Ormond Beach (beachside)

Kava Kula bills itself as a trendy social destination with a vibe for everyone, on the beachside end of East Granada Boulevard. It reportedly serves traditional kava and botanical teas with a full calendar of weekly events, and stays open late (its listing shows hours running to around 1am on weeknights and 2am on weekends). This is the flagship of a small local brand that also runs the Li'ili'i spot in New Smyrna, below.

Kava Culture Kava Bar (Ormond Beach)

📍 500 W Granada Blvd, Ste 5, Ormond Beach, FL 32174 — Ormond Beach

Kava Culture is a Florida kava-bar name with locations around the state, and this West Granada Boulevard spot covers Ormond. It reportedly runs a chill, sober-friendly lounge format open daily into the early hours, with kava plus a wider botanical menu. Note that alongside kava it markets kanna and other botanical elixirs, which are separate substances; ask for a traditional kava shell if that is specifically what you came for.

Green Turtle Kava Bar (Ormond Beach)

📍 1474 W Granada Blvd, Ste 410, Ormond Beach, FL 32174 — Ormond Beach

The second Green Turtle, further west on Granada Boulevard in Ormond, carries the same community-first framing as the Daytona original: a welcoming room built so like-minded people can gather and feel a sense of belonging. Handy if you are up in Ormond and want the Green Turtle format without driving back into Daytona.

Clover Kava & Cafe, New Smyrna Beach (formerly Kava Java)

📍 715 Canal St, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168 — Canal Street, New Smyrna Beach

This Canal Street spot is New Smyrna's long-running kava bar, recently rebranded from Kava Java to Clover Kava & Cafe (the name change was announced on the shop's own Facebook, and both names still show up online). Reportedly a newly remodeled space with wooden bartops and comfy seating, it serves kava, coffee, and kratom for guests 21 and up, with a regular events calendar like game nights and paint-and-sip. If you search the old Kava Java name and land on Clover, this is why.

Kava Kula Li'ili'i (New Smyrna Beach)

📍 300 Flagler Ave, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169 — Flagler Avenue (beachside), New Smyrna Beach

Kava Kula Li'ili'i is the New Smyrna sibling of the Ormond Kava Kula, reportedly a newer beachside spot right on Flagler Avenue, a short walk from the sand. It is described as a warm, welcoming room with weekly events, a cozy lounge, and a menu of traditional kava, botanical teas, and signature specialty drinks. A natural pick if you are spending the day at the New Smyrna beach end.

If you have never had kava, here is the honest preview. Kava is the ground root of a South Pacific plant, mixed with water into an earthy, muddy-tasting drink served cool by the shell, the serving unit named for the traditional half-coconut shell and the kava equivalent of ordering a pint. The taste is genuinely earthy and a little bitter; almost nobody loves it on the first sip, and that is normal. Within a minute or two your lips and tongue go faintly numb and tingly, which is the kava and the sign you got the real thing. Over the next ten to fifteen minutes a relaxed, sociable, clear-headed calm tends to settle in. The room is built for exactly that: alcohol-free, low-lit, conversation-paced, much closer to a mellow coffeehouse than a bar.

What to order on a first visit. You have three honest options:

• A traditional shell, straight kava, the way it is meant to be drunk. Order this if you actually want to taste kava and feel what it does. Knock it back in a sip or two rather than nursing it; many bars offer a slice of pineapple or a citrus chaser afterward, so take it.
• A flavored kava brew. Most Daytona-area bars blend kava into fruitier, more drinkable concoctions for newcomers. This is the gentle on-ramp: you still get the kava, with far less of the mud.
• Ease in slowly. Whatever you order, start with one and give it twenty minutes before deciding on a second. Kava's onset is not instant, and stacking shells too fast is the classic first-timer mistake. Pace it like a conversation, not a contest.

Pricing across the area generally runs about $7-10 a shell, the going rate for the atmosphere and the company.

Yes. Kava is federally legal in the United States, and it is sold openly and without restriction across Florida, which is exactly why beach towns like Daytona, Ormond, and New Smyrna could build a real kava-bar cluster in the first place. Kava is a traditional plant beverage, not a controlled substance; you can walk into any of the bars above, order a shell, and walk out, the same as ordering a coffee. There is no special license or membership involved on your end.

A few honest clarifications. Kava is an experiential and lawful drink, and people enjoy it socially for the relaxed, sociable feeling it brings, but it is not a medicine, and nothing here is medical advice. We do not make health or disease claims about it, and you should not trust any bar or brand that does. As with anything you consume, treat it as an adults-only proposition: 21 and up, do not combine it with alcohol, and do not drive on a heavy session.

One point specific to Florida bars: kava, kratom, and kanna are often sold side by side in the same lounges, and they are not the same substance or the same legal conversation. Kava is what this guide is about. If you want only kava, it is entirely available on its own, so just be clear when you order. For the deeper legal picture, see our full guide to kava's legal status.

If a Daytona-area kava bar is out of range tonight, the same drink is easy to recreate at home, and far cheaper than a $7-10 shell. The lowest-effort route is a ready-to-drink can like Leilo, which mirrors the flavored brews on a bar menu with zero prep. If you would rather brew the genuine traditional shell from noble root, an AluBall maker turns the messy hand-straining into a 60-second shake. Either way: 21+, never mix with alcohol, and nothing here is medical advice.