Seminole residents will soon be able to enjoy another locally owned option for their caffeine fix when Sugar Baby opens later this month at 9191 Park Boulevard.

The coffee shop, whose website claims that “sandy feet and dogs are always welcome,” will serve Buddy Brew coffee in a variety of hot and cold beverage options, including espresso, latte, americano, cappuccino, flat white, and cortado. Matcha and chai lattes will be available for tea drinkers.

The food menu features an all-day breakfast, with dishes such as avocado toast, breakfast sandwiches, salmon toast, a granola bowl, and Sugar Baby toast, which is a soft-boiled egg, salmon spread, avocado, pickled red onion, and micro cilantro on a slice of sourdough.

Lunch options include a sesame kale salad, chickpea bowl, tofu bowl, as well as a variety of sandwiches — simple turkey, kimchi grilled cheese, chipotle melt, pesto chicken, and Happy Vegan, which contains pesto tofu, garden tomato, artichoke, roasted red pepper, and vegan pesto mayo. All sandwiches can be made with gluten-free bread upon request. 

The Sugar Baby is owned by Victoria Shivock and her husband, Yauhen Yurhelevich, who’s also a trained chef.

“We’ve been trying to find a really good coffee shop or breakfast spot in Seminole, but there’s nothing,” owner Shivock said in an interview with St. Pete Rising. “We had been traveling to St. Pete for a good coffee, but that’s quite a drive, so we decided to open something cool here.”

The couple discovered Seminole while they were driving from Tampa to the Pinellas County beaches. Shivock and Yurhelevich were living in Delaware, but, “decided to move to Florida because it’s way nicer than Delaware and there’s no snow.”

Shivock was pregnant at the time and they thought it would be a nice community in which to settle down and raise a family. Their new arrival also inspired the name of the coffee shop.

“We had a baby coming,” Shivock said, “and we thought Sugar Bay is kind of a cool name because this restaurant is basically our sugar baby — you put a lot of money into something new and you’re not sure if it’s going to work out or not. It’s just a cool, catchy name that everyone’s going to remember.”

According to Shivock, Sugar Baby’s interior will have a “minimalistic, modern” design. The shop is going through final inspections and should be open by the end of September. It will be open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. seven days a week.

For more information and updates, follow Sugar Baby on Instagram.