Joe and Milouda Cline, owners of Cline's Custom Meats. | J. Brooks Terry, Jacksonville Daily Record
Published on October 31, 2025 at 11:16 am
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Butcher shop Cline’s Custom Meats is expanding its small-business enterprise from Jacksonville down to bustling St. Johns County.
Known for cuts of meat that include Jacksonville-raised cattle, the butcher shop also sells other groceries and hosts events.
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Joe and Milouda Cline first opened Cline’s Custom Meats in Jacksonville’s San Marco neighborhood in 2018. Both had connections working in the beef industry, and the couple wanted to open a business of their own.
With the growth in clientele at their San Marco location, the family talked about expanding — and thanks to a Realtor among Cline’s customers, they found a new spot in St. Johns County.
The new shop will open Saturday.
“We’re constantly getting requests to open a shop here, the Beaches, this place, that place,” Joe Cline says. “I started really looking at it, and as a business, it was time for us to expand to one of those communities.”
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The new butcher shop
The new location, at 1405 St John’s Parkway, Unit 202, is on St. Johns Parkway near Julington Creek Plantation on the county’s north side.
The shop is smaller than the San Marco location and won’t host the same events they do in San Marco. But it will still feature the products customers enjoy at the Jacksonville location, like Jacksonville-raised cuts of beef courtesy of Vause Farms.
“It’s an extension of what we do and what we’ve always done — the quality and the products,” Joe Cline says.
Right now, Cline’s is able to offer only about eight locally raised rib eye steaks per month — with the rest of their beef sourced from farms in the Midwest — but Joe Cline says his goal is to eventually be able to offer more local beef.
