Over 50 Tampa

Midtown Tampa · italian, cuban, bakery, sandwiches

Alessi has been baking in Tampa since 1912, working from 'family recipes passed down through four generations'. It is a Sicilian bakery that grew up alongside the Cuban and Spanish bakeries of West Tampa and Ybor, and it sells both traditions ... Italian pastries and cannoli on one side, fresh Cuban bread and scachatta on the other, plus a deli counter, custom cake studio and rotisserie chicken. The business has moved into a single new building on West Cypress Street that puts the bakery, cake studio, deli and cafe 'under one roof'.

Davis Islands · bakery, desserts

Bake'n Babes is the dessert counter on the Davis Islands village strip, a few doors from 220 East. It is built around oversized cookies, over-the-top milkshakes and a triple-layer item it has trademarked as the Sleazy Brownie. Flavours named on its own front page include Fruity Pebbles, Nutella-stuffed chocolate chip and plain chocolate chip. It stays open to 10 or 11 at night, which on Davis Islands makes it the after-dinner stop.

farm to table, sandwiches, bakery

Fat Beet Farm is a working farm on West Hillsborough Avenue with a kitchen and bakery on the property, founded by Jen and Tim Curci in 2013 on what they describe as a ragged piece of coastal Florida land. Vegetables are grown in greenhouses on site, cooked in the kitchen and returned to the soil: scraps go through composting and a bio-digester built with the University of South Florida that turns food waste into fertiliser slurry, with rainwater harvesting and an on-site solar grid behind the rest. The counter serves sandwiches, biscuits, fried chicken and baked goods, and the farm runs tours, workshops, markets and volunteer days. It is the only venue in the Tampa Bay area holding a MICHELIN Green Star, awarded in the 2026 statewide Florida selection.

West Tampa · filipino, bakery, boba

Filipiniana is a cafeteria-style Filipino cafe and bakeshop in a strip plaza on Waters Avenue, where you point at what you want from a hot food counter and then work out how much of the bakery case you can carry home. The hot side runs dinuguan, lechon kawali, kare kare, menudo, palabok and sisig; the bakery side has ube macapuno cake, ensaymada, mamon, cheese rolls and cheese cupcakes. It makes halo halo daily, along with maiz con yelo built on homemade corn ice cream, taho, sago at gulaman and boba. That's So Tampa filed it under hidden gems and said it may have the best baked goods in the city.

Palma Ceia · bakery, vegan, breakfast

HaleLife is a bakery and bistro on South Dale Mabry Highway whose whole kitchen is built around food restrictions rather than around a diet trend. Its own South Tampa page states the rule plainly: 100% Gluten-Free, Vegan, & Allergy Friendly. The kitchen is dedicated free from gluten, dairy, eggs, soy, peanuts, tree nuts other than coconut, and shellfish, traced down to the manufacturer, and the company says it has had no reported reactions since opening in 2017. The board runs to beignets, cinnamon rolls, donuts, breakfast tacos, pizza and cakes. USA Today named it a top gluten free bakery in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

V.M. Ybor · cuban, bakery

La Segunda was founded in 1915 and still bakes on North 15th Street in V.M. Ybor, just north of the Ybor City historic district. Its own site counts '110+ Years of Family Tradition' and says the business 'started in a small Ybor City bakery'. The bakery says it turns out '18,000+ Loaves Baked Daily', which is why so much of Tampa's Cuban bread, and most of the city's Cuban sandwiches, trace back to this one address. There are now several counters around Tampa Bay, but 2512 N 15th St is the original bake house.

University Area · asian, chinese, vietnamese, filipino, korean

MD Oriental Market is the large pan-Asian grocery on East Fowler that the rest of the USF food corridor shops at, with its own departments for fresh produce, live seafood, a bakery and a hot deli. The hot deli and bakery counters are why it belongs on a food list rather than only a shopping one: people come in for roast meats, mochi and custard cakes without buying groceries. Its own recipe section is organised by country, running China, India, Japan, Mongolia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, which is a fair description of what the aisles carry. Local chefs and food writers named it to Creative Loafing's guide to Tampa Bay's best Asian markets.

Palma Ceia · new american, bakery, sandwiches

Pane Rustica is a bakery and restaurant on South MacDill that its own site describes as 'serving South Tampa for 26 years'. It runs as a single room where the bakery counter and the dining room share the same space, and it does its own wholesale baking alongside the restaurant. The kitchen also handles catering and private events out of the same address.

North Hyde Park · greek, bakery

Psomi is a daytime Greek restaurant and bakery on North Howard Avenue, named for the Greek word for bread. Its own site puts that at the centre of the place: 'bread is the cornerstone of every meal at psomi, it's where every meal starts and how every dish is built.' The kitchen advertises itself as a seed oil free establishment and runs a small market called Parea alongside the restaurant. It has held a MICHELIN Bib Gourmand in both the 2025 and 2026 Florida selections.

Temple Terrace · palestinian, middle eastern, bakery

Ramallah Market has anchored N 56th Street in Temple Terrace for years as a Middle Eastern grocery with its own in-store bakery, turning out knafeh, baklava and ma'amoul alongside fresh produce and spices. In May 2026 the family that runs it opened a cafe inside the shop called Sufrat Ramallah, which translates as the table of Ramallah, serving a full traditional Palestinian breakfast spread with ingredients imported from Palestine and homemade halal dishes. The coffee comes from Barakah Beans, an Orlando Arabic coffee brand, pouring pistachio and Dubai chocolate lattes. The market's own site describes the whole thing as 'a story of tradition, family, and delicious Middle Eastern flavors.'

Town 'n' Country · vietnamese, bakery, tofu

Thinh An makes its own tofu fresh every day, which is the thing to know about it: it is a tofu producer with a Vietnamese kitchen and a bakery attached, in a plaza on Waters Avenue in Town 'n' Country. Creative Loafing's chef-sourced guide to Tampa Bay's Asian kitchens and markets lists it as a homemade tofu maker that has been at it since 2016. The catering menu is built around that, with customisable tofu and vegetarian choices for weddings and parties, and the restaurant runs a happy hour Monday through Thursday from 2 to 5pm. It closes on Tuesdays and opens at 9am the rest of the week, which makes it one of the few kitchens on this side of town serving a Vietnamese breakfast.

vegan, coffee, bakery, breakfast

WeVegan Cafe sits on South Manhattan Avenue in Interbay, and its owners Sandra Carson and Effren Denson are Tampa natives who grew up in that neighbourhood. The business started because they went plant based and could not find a vegan cookie they actually enjoyed, so they worked on their own recipe until they had one they loved. They sold the first batch at a farmer's market in November 2017, which grew into a wholesale business supplying vegan cookies and breads to coffee shops and delis around the bay, then an online retail operation when Covid hit the restaurant industry, and finally this cafe. It serves craft coffee, homemade baked goods and hot and grab-and-go breakfast and lunch seven days a week.

Palma Ceia · sandwiches, deli, bakery

Wright's opened on 20 April 1963, started by Marjorie and Pete Wright, who thought Tampa needed a gourmet shop. It has stayed on South Dale Mabry ever since as a counter-service deli, bakery and caterer, and it is the sandwich most long-time Tampa residents name first. Breads run to pumpernickel, rye, whole wheat, buttercrust white, onion rolls, wraps and Cuban. It closes on Sundays and shuts at 5:30 on weekdays, which tells you it is a lunch house, not a dinner one.