La Segunda Bakery

4015 W. Kennedy Blvd. : Tampa, Florida

“The 3,000-square-foot bakery and cafe at the redeveloped 4001 W Kennedy Blvd. shopping plaza will offer seating for the first time, both indoors and outdoors, a barista coffee bar, to-go window and parking. Still, the showstopper will be the state-of-the-art exhibition hearth where customers can watch La Segunda bakers doing what they do: Forming 18,000 Cuban loaves daily, about 36 inches long, with a zipperlike seam topped with the remnants of a palmetto leaf (used during baking to hold the top of the bread together and create the signature crack along the top). You’ll be able to watch them do other things, like make deviled crabs, chorizo rolls, empanadas and flan.” Tampa Bay Times

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