Bear Fruit Bowls and Coffee is expanding its footprint with a fifth location at the former Gulf Breeze Shop at 203 Gulf Breeze Parkway, offering customers fuel after a day at nearby Pensacola Beach.
Gulf Breeze’s local coffee shop, Gulf Breeze Shop, permanently closed after its final day of business on Jan. 23. The café opened in 2022 as a nonprofit coffee shop of Coastline Calvary Chapel in Gulf Breeze to help mentor and train youth for the workforce.
Bear Fruit Bowls and Coffee owner Ryan Ford and his wife, Alexa, found the shop to be a perfect fit for their newest sit-down café, which will be their largest to date. The build-your-own acai bowl and coffee shop connects to their neighbor, Innerlight Surf & Skate Shop…