{"id":395139,"date":"2026-09-09T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395139\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T21:00:12","slug":"florafete-bouquet-bar-plans-fall-opening-on-beach-drive-in-downtown-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395139\/","title":{"rendered":"Floraf\u00eate Bouquet Bar plans fall opening on Beach Drive in downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What began with bouquets at Tampa Bay markets is becoming a place designed to carry people through the day, from morning coffee and flower arranging to wine and small plates in the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.florafete.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Floraf\u00eate Bouquet Bar<\/a>, a floral design business founded by Lucy Watkins, plans to open this fall at 400 Beach Drive in downtown St. Pete. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The shop will bring custom arrangements, a build-your-own bouquet bar, retail goods, and a nine-seat wine and coffee bar together under one roof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The space was previously occupied by Savory Spice Shop, which permanently closed in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Watkins, a Miami native with decades of hospitality experience, said the concept grew out of an encounter with flower carts while visiting her hometown in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cAt the time, I was just visiting Miami when I saw flower carts not only selling single-stem flowers but also creating full bouquets for people on the street,\u201d Watkins said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Flower carts are a familiar sight in Miami, which serves as the country\u2019s primary air gateway for imported flowers. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.miami-airport.com\/mia-welcomes-final-flower-shipments-for-mothers-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami International Airport says it handled 91% of U.S. flower imports arriving by air in 2025<\/a>, with many cut blooms coming from production centers in Colombia and Ecuador. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What began with bouquets at Tampa Bay markets is becoming a place designed to carry people through the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-395139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395139","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=395139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}