10 Best Gluten-Free Pastry Shops in Tampa

COCO LOV serves vegan and vegetarian food from breakfast through dinner, with delivery, takeaway and dine-in options. The menu includes organic dishes, raw vegan selections, soups, desserts, ice cream, fresh coconuts and sugar cane juice, giving plant-based diners both meal and treat choices.

Outdoor seating, live music, Wi-Fi and dog-friendly spaces support casual visits, while catering, a kids’ menu and reservations broaden its use. The restaurant also offers healthy options and small plates for lighter or shared meals.

Pure Kitchen is an informal vegan and organic food café offering prepared dishes and drinks for dine-in or takeout. The menu includes soups, salads, curries, taco salad, side dishes and breakfast items, with meals that can be taken home to warm up.

The café suits people seeking plant-based food for a quick meal, workday lunch or stocked refrigerator. Its compact setting includes counter seating, and the daily selection can include different soups, curries and prepared dishes.

The Cake Girl creates custom cakes and mini cupcakes for birthdays, baby showers, weddings, and other milestone events. Customers can bring a visual concept or a highly specific theme, and the bakery can reproduce detailed imagery, develop custom flavors, and coordinate a finished design around the celebration.

The shop is suited to hosts who want the dessert to function as part of the event presentation as well as the menu. Its work ranges from Miami Dolphins-themed groom’s cakes to elaborate birthday designs, with attention to both visual detail and flavor.

Nicola's Donuts focuses on fresh daily donuts, including light, airy glazed and cake varieties, filled options and large apple fritters. The shop also serves iced coffee and breakfast sandwiches, including turkey sausage for customers avoiding pork.

It suits an early coffee stop, a quick treat or anyone seeking filled donuts and classic selections. The menu works for mixed groups, but popular filled varieties can sell out earlier in the day. Shoppers with a particular choice should plan around that possibility.

Synergy Sweets is a Tampa bakery specializing in desserts such as cupcakes, brownies, cheesecakes, stuffed cookies and cheesecake-topped cupcakes. Examples include cookie butter, salted caramel, banana pudding, strawberry, Biscoff, peach cobbler and black velvet flavors.

The menu rotates weekly, giving regular visitors changing dessert choices. The shop suits customers looking for individual treats or assorted desserts, especially those interested in cheesecake combinations and distinctive flavor variations.

Oxford Exchange combines an American restaurant with a bookstore, coffeehouse and shop in a European-inspired Tampa setting. Visitors can plan brunch, coffee, a meal or an unhurried browse through books, gifts and eclectic decor, with additional spaces for tea, champagne and candle-making.

Breakfast and brunch dishes, sandwiches and coffee support both sit-down meals and takeout. The multi-use setting suits visitors who want shopping, browsing and dining to form one outing rather than a single restaurant stop.

Wright’s Gourmet House is a cafe built around creative sandwiches, salads and desserts. It suits Tampa diners seeking a substantial lunch, a take-home sweet or a cake for a special occasion, with counter ordering and multiple dining areas supporting both quick visits and sit-down meals.

Menu examples include the Golden Gate, Texan, Beef Martini and Cuban sandwiches, along with soups, cakes, cupcakes and cookies. Grilled sandwich preparation, fresh vegetables and strawberry cake add distinctive choices. The cafe also handles wedding cakes for customers planning a specialty order.

The Lab Coffee serves specialty coffee, espresso drinks, and pastries in a sleek garage-style space with an industrial edge. The coffee program includes drinks such as cortados, cappuccinos, lattes, and iced matcha, while the food side includes a breakfast pressed Cuban with sausage.

It fits a morning stop, brunch, casual meeting, or work session, with a small menu focused on coffee and selected food rather than an expansive all-day lineup. Roasted beans are also sold, giving regular coffee drinkers an option to take the house coffee home.

Toffee to Go & More is a South Tampa dessert café centered on made-from-scratch toffee, gourmet dessert bars, cakes, ice cream, and coffee. It suits a quick sweet treat, relaxed coffee stop, gift purchase, date night, after-school visit, or casual gathering. Dessert choices include key lime, pumpkin, cookie butter, dark chocolate pecan, and toffee crunch.

Desserts are made in-house by the pastry chef, and guests can dine in, take treats away, order delivery, arrange pickup, or ship toffee nationwide. The café combines a family-recipe tradition with a dessert menu designed for both local visits and gifts.