Southern Grounds & Co.

Southern Grounds & Co. is a chef-driven coffee shop and all-day café on Central Ave in St. Petersburg's EDGE District — one of the few places in Tampa Bay serving direct-trade Intelligentsia coffee. Mediterranean-inspired restaurant and scratch kitchen. Breakfast, brunch, and dinner. Dog-friendly sidewalk patio. Live music on weekends. Contact us about private events and custom catering. Online catering order for local teams and offices. Open daily 6:30 AM–9 PM.

Southern Grounds & Co. is one of the cafes listed in St. Petersburg, Florida. The business is registered at 695 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, FL 33701; use this page to check its hours, phone number and Google rating before you make the trip. Google also lists it under breakfast restaurant, brunch restaurant, catering food and drink supplier, which is worth knowing if you are comparing several options in the area.

Coffee in the United States is served by three kinds of places: national chains with drive-thrus and mobile ordering, independent neighborhood cafes that double as a workspace or a meeting spot, and specialty shops that roast their own beans or buy single-origin lots and brew them by pour-over, espresso or cold brew. Most open between 6 and 7 a.m. on weekdays, slightly later on weekends, and the busiest hour is the commute rush before 9. A drip coffee runs a few dollars, espresso drinks and specialty pours more, and tipping a dollar or a percentage on the card reader is customary but not required. Nearly every cafe offers free Wi-Fi, though some limit laptop seating at peak times or on weekends, and outlets are often the scarce resource.

Hours are published for 7 days a week. The most common schedule is 6:30 am–9 pm. Hours in the United States do change around federal holidays and long weekends, so a quick call before a special trip is sensible. The listed phone number is (727) 201-8109. Many businesses also reply to text messages on the same number if it is a cell phone. Its website is southerngrounds.com, where you may find menus, price lists or booking options.

Customers rate it 4.5 out of 5 on Google across 209 reviews, placing it among the better-regarded cafes in St. Petersburg.

St. Petersburg is in Florida, in the Southeast, where summers are long, hot and humid, winters are mild, and afternoon thunderstorms and the hurricane season from June to November can change plans at short notice. Traffic in St. Petersburg peaks on weekday mornings and afternoons, so allow extra time then. Addresses read from the street number up to the city, state abbreviation and five-digit ZIP code; the map link on this page shows the exact spot.

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