{"id":261140,"date":"2026-05-06T21:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/261140\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:05:04","slug":"new-vietnamese-cafe-say-coffee-house-opens-in-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/261140\/","title":{"rendered":"New Vietnamese cafe, Say Coffee House, opens in St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" data-attachment-id=\"359508\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/food-drink\/new-vietnamese-cafe-say-coffee-house-opens-in-st-pete\/attachment\/img_7981\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7981-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Say Coffee House\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7981-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C585&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7981.jpg\" alt=\"Exterior of Say Coffee House with people sitting under umbrellas outside.\" class=\"wp-image-359508\"  \/>Credit: Selene San Felice \/ Creative Loafing Tampa Bay<\/p>\n<p>Downtown St. Pete\u2019s newest coffee shop has some extra buzz.<\/p>\n<p>Say Coffee House soft-launched at 2414 Central Ave. Friday and Saturday, serving a variety of Vietnamese coffee, matcha and green tea drinks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vietnamese coffee is brewed in a slow drip process with robusta beans, yielding nearly double the caffeine as arabica beans used in common espresso and coffee drinks.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnamese iced coffee is served with condensed milk, and Say has several versions of the drink, including a \u201cMarble Drip\u201d with condensed milk, milk and espresso. The shop also offers flavors like ube, Biscoff, strawberry, egg cream and banana cream.<\/p>\n<p>The shop also serves pastries from the nearby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/food-drink\/st-petes-crumb-factory-expands-to-dunedin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crumb Factory<\/a>, including butter and chocolate croissants and cinnamon rolls. <\/p>\n<p>The Grand Central district is home to a handful of coffee shops, including some of St. Pete\u2019s most famous: Black Crow and Bandit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Owner Haley Huynh also runs Sip Tea Boba in Pinellas Park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/location\/say-coffee-house-21390554\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Say Coffee House<\/a> is open 8 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. Follow @saycoffeehouse on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/saycoffeehouse\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/saycoffeehouse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/apr-30-may-06-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apr. 30 \u2013 May 06, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSelene San Felice is managing editor of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. Prior to joining CL in 2025, she started the Axios Tampa Bay newsletter and worked for her hometown paper, The Capital in Annapolis,&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/selene\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Selene San Felice\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Selene San Felice \/ Creative Loafing Tampa Bay Downtown St. Pete\u2019s newest coffee shop has some extra&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[112851,202,204,203,199,201,200,58216],"class_list":["post-261140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-say-coffee-house","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-vietnamese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}