A wildly popular Coconut Grove bakery is coming to Fort Lauderdale, and fans are already ecstatic. Beloved bakery and café, Ophelia, is opening its first Broward County location this fall. It will take a spot inside Huizenga Park in downtown Fort Lauderdale, the 3.6-acre riverfront park that reopened in January after a $15 million transformation.
It’s a major move for an operation that runs out of a retrofitted RV in a parking lot. Located at 2140 S. Dixie Hwy., it may only have a few seats under an oak tree next to the lot, but that only adds to its charm. The Fort Lauderdale Downtown Development Authority is calling Ophelia its second concessionaire at the park.
What’s on the menu
Ophelia makes nearly everything in house, think breads, pastries, syrups, and cold foams. The coffee-glazed cinnamon roll is the star of the menu. And there’s also the fan-favorite brown sugar cinnamon latte with vanilla cold foam.
The rest of the menu goes from banana walnut bread with cream cheese frosting to olive oil loaf cake. Plus, pistachio crumb cake, gouda jalapeño scones, bacon and Swiss focaccia, and a guava kouign-amann. In Fort Lauderdale, all of it comes with grab-and-go breakfast and lunch daily.
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From Stubborn Seed to a parking lot on U.S.1
Husband-and-wife chefs Ana De Sa Martins and Juan Vieira run Ophelia. They met working at Stubborn Seed, and De Sa Martins picked up a StarChefs Miami Rising Star award for pastry in 2025…