{"id":367786,"date":"2026-08-10T21:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367786\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:16:09","slug":"buddy-brew-opens-first-pinellas-county-coffee-shop-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367786\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddy Brew opens first Pinellas County coffee shop this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"674\" data-attachment-id=\"366259\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/food-drink\/buddy-brew-opens-first-pinellas-county-coffee-shop-this-week\/attachment\/556430765_18550579819008149_6274310204322396639_n\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/556430765_18550579819008149_6274310204322396639_n.jpg?fit=1440%2C1244&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1440,1244\" 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;1&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"556430765_18550579819008149_6274310204322396639_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt; Buddy Brew Coffee&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/556430765_18550579819008149_6274310204322396639_n.jpg?fit=780%2C674&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/556430765_18550579819008149_6274310204322396639_n.jpg\" alt=\"Two to-go paper cups with white lids featuring the Buddy Brew Coffee dog logo sitting side by side on a wooden table.\" class=\"wp-image-366259\"  \/> Buddy Brew Coffee Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=1223411826491161&amp;set=pb.100064670654848.-2207520000&amp;type=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buddy Brew\/Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Popular Tampa-based coffee chain Buddy Brew is headed over the bridge.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Buddy Brew will celebrate the grand-opening of its first Pinellas County outpost this Friday, Aug. 14 at 9:45 a.m. Unlike Buddy Brew\u2019s more standard brick-and-mortar locations, this one\u2019s inside the Sprouts Farmers Market at 7263 Seminole Blvd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To commemorate the event, Buddy Brew will offer $3 summer specialty drinks all day long,  a chance to win free coffee for a year, and gift bags for the first 25 guests \u201cfilled with Buddy Brew merchandise, gift cards and other surprises,\u201d says a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new Seminole spot, which is part of a new partnership between Buddy Brew and Sprouts, will offer the full standard menu of espresso beverages, cold brews, matchas, smoothies, breakfast and lunch items and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOpening our first caf\u00e9 in Pinellas County is an exciting milestone for Buddy Brew,\u201d said Dave Ward, CEO of Buddy Brew Coffee in a statement. \u201cTampa Bay has been our home since the beginning, and we\u2019ve wanted to bring Buddy Brew across the bay for a long time. We\u2019re thrilled to become part of the Pinellas County community and look forward to serving our new neighbors in Seminole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Buddy Brew already has Sprouts-related locations in Valrico, New Tampa and Westchase, with more in the works. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/altnewsfoundation.org\/cl-tampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa-newslettersignup-page\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/august-06-12-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aug. 06-12, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buddy Brew Coffee Credit: Buddy Brew\/Facebook Popular Tampa-based coffee chain Buddy Brew is headed over the bridge.\u00a0\u00a0 Buddy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,8770,79027,137,136],"class_list":["post-367786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-dining","tag-tampa-bay-food","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367786","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=367786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}