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Mostly we were going to make a bunch of terrible puns about how chai rhymes with try and such, but that’s so cheesy, so we’ll give something else a chai.
Like talking about the alluring spiciness a perfect cup of chai has. Or how heavenly an Iced Cinnamon Roll Chai tastes (or hey, make it hot if your AC is rockin).
We could ruminate on the way it pairs with some Brown Sugar Cinnamon added. Or the flawless moment of a chai on its own… ok maybe with that Brown Sugar Cinnamon in a Soft Beak though?!
All these things are good. Hope your weekend is too!
JUNE STICKERS ARE IN
Celebrating Pride Month!
Two colorful sticker options this month, done by the illustrious muimooi, a Thai artist who’s a friend of ours (she also did our Christmas sticker last year!). They’re $3.5 each, or grab both for $6. Until they run out!
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We’re big fans of caring for those around us, and are proud to celebrate pride alongside our friends.
We know it’s been specifically heavy in Florida lately for many people who celebrate pride, equality, and inclusion.
If you’re someone directly affected, know we stand with you. If you’ve got friends affected… maybe check in and send a little extra love this month.
We know rainbows and stickers and being flamboyant is cute and fun, but also know many of you are facing real adversity and discrimination just trying to go about your life. That’s rough.
May we all extend more of the love we hope for ourselves, and may your June be a brilliant one whoever you may be. 🌈
Our espresso machine will hopefully be back up by tomorrow by close… we know it’s a bummer when you are prepared for espresso and we don’t have it!
BUT! We’ve got allllllll our other drinks, including some amazing coffee. (Side note - did you know a coffee generally has more caffeine than espresso?)
Here’s a couple ways you can order Iced Coffee at White Duck… on the left, a simple coffee with some cream. On the right, an Iced Coffee with White Mocha, Toasted Marshmallow, Caramel Drizzle, and Whipped Cream.
Oh coffee, let us count the ways we love you. 🤩
LOTUS SLUSHIES
Yes, tomorrow is June, so it’s time to get summery. Here’s a summary: LOTUS SLUSHIES.
Choose 1-3 flavors, or ask for a surprise (secret menu items don’t generally work as slushies). We’ll swirl it up into a perfect cup of slushy satisfaction and slide it out the window to refresh your thirst.
These photos are White Peach / Desert Pear, / Strawberry for one drink, and Lime / Kiwi / Blue Raspberry in the other!
GET SLUSHY, Y’ALL. IT’S SUMMER.
YES WE’RE OPEN, normal hours!
We are grateful for - and honor - those who’ve lost their life defending our country, and remember them today on Memorial Day.
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Grab any drinks you’d like if you’re getting together with friends or family today - you can always ask for a red, white, and blue surprise! (Or hey - any colors or flavor palette you’d like).
May your day be a peaceful and good one, you cool folxx you.
A donut, when it is hot and fresh, and mini, is a wonderful thing. A dozen is even more so.
Ours are cake-style donuts, crumbly and warm and slightly dense. We toss ‘em in a nice bag with various types of flavored sugars, depending on your preference.
Cinnamon. Apple Cider. Cookies and Cream. Salted Caramel. Get ‘em mixed up (Apple Cinnamon? Yes please!), or just choose your favorite.
It’s Sunday. We’re around. Come say hi… and maybe grab some donuts. Seems nice. 🤩
Announcing… White Duck Espresso Service!
In the years since we opened we’ve been training and getting certified on repair and maintenance of espresso machines, coffee machines, and grinders.
Now we’re ready to offer these services to other cafes and coffee shops in Tampa Bay! That might not affect you… but it’s fun and so we’re letting you know. :)
If you ARE a barista or coffee industry member in Tampa Bay… know that we’re available for service needs now! Check out whiteduck.es/service for more details or message us directly.
We take the same approach to service as we do to slinging drinks: excellent communication, expert skill, and speed. See ya soon at YOUR shop!
TWO FUN THINGS
(also Hayleigh says hi)
_Thing One_
CALLING ALL ARTISTS AGAIN! Time to get some new White Duck sticker designs flowing in. Check whiteduck.es/stickers to get an idea of the vibe - it’s essentially “design White Duck in YOUR style, for a 3ish inch vinyl sticker.” Yes we pay if we use your design - and submissions can be messaged directly to us. Or feel free to strike up a conversation with ideas or questions!
_Thing Two_
We are attending our FIRST pop-up event! Out in Seminole Heights THIS SUNDAY we’ll be at a pop-up hosted by @theleonyx, slinging Lotus drinks and hanging with cool people.
We’re flexing our event prep with this first opportunity, and plan to grow that capability and be able to attend more events as we go. Many of you have asked! If you’re in the Tampa area… come say hi this Sunday. 🙂
One day, someone was wandering down US 19 and saw a drive-thru coffee stand, a la Pacific NW vibes.
That person walked through the line, and wound up with a stunning drink; the Vaporwave.
A citrusy floral flamboyance of flavor, presenting in orange and pink and blue… this person’s day was buoyed. Their mood made magnificent.
Though the heat beat down, they continued wandering. Sip, observe. Sip, smile. Fun straw.
[PRE-ORDER] These new stands are taking forever... SO LET'S MAKE A SHIRT ABOUT IT! (pre-order link is in our bio)
"White Duck Espresso - ALWAYS OPENING SOON."
Comfort Colors makes comfy cotton shirts, and this one features a prominent duck on the front, with a bold movie-poster style design on the back - gently mocking our construction delays. :)
We're doing a pre-order so you get exactly the sizes you want - expect your shirt in 2-3 weeks. Choose pick-up and we'll notify you when they're in, for you to pick them up at the stand. Choose Shipping, and for $6 we'll mail 'em right to you in 2-3 weeks.
Van Dyke will be open asap - thanks for your patience! Construction is fun. 🙂 And Little and Ridge will be a few months after that. Then... your neck of the woods, maybe? We're growing!
Order at with the link in our bio! 🦖
CROISSANTS MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY
We aren’t allowed to say it’s been proven to be true, so it’s just something we feel. To our core. In our bones.
The flakiness. The savoriness. The warmth, the butter, the way the cheese pulls apart…
These are joyful things.
Buffalo Chicken, Tomato Mozzarella, Ham and Cheese. These are the flavors you can choose from, to fill your belly and soothe your soul.
Or get a Puff Tart. Those are stellar too.
EAT WELL AT WHITE DUCK.
🦕
A note on quality…
We love tossing 8 pumps of Brown Sugar Cinnamon syrup and 3oz of cream in your iced coffee (and getting it to you in 45 seconds) just as much as we love a slow moment to slide some latte art under your lid on a perfect latte.
And we’re fanatical about quality and care in each of those cups.
The first picture in this post is our Tech Director Kota in Phoenix at the moment doing continuing education on advanced servicing and maintenance of all our equipment. He’s done previous classes across the US as well, and maintains and inspects all our equipment weekly (and often more).
That makes a huge difference in the quality of every pour - and we’re serious about it!
And the coffee itself… our roasting partner Joel Eastlick spends several months out of the year in South America (and beyond). He meets with farmers; ensuring they’re being paid fairly, sourcing brilliant and interesting beans, and has a deep understanding of the entire coffee process from seed to cup. He knows the people who are farming the beans that wind up making YOUR coffee. The picture in this post is Joel in Guatemala recently.
Those are just a few of the things we focus on to make sure you’re getting a brilliant beverage every time.
Enjoy.
Ahh, an Iced Smore’s Mocha with Toasted Marshmallow Soft Beak and Cinnamon Dust.
That’s a pretty good moment.
Puff Tarts ramblin’ on through blooms and sunshine! Two new flavors this week… NUTELLA and GUAVA.
That’s right. The subtle glaze. The heavenly filling. Those flaky edges and bits on every bite. Ahhhhhhh….
But the timeless question: do you warm yours or not?!
Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms and mothering figures!
We’re handing out nifty duck stickers to you today. 🙂 Celebrating motherhood and all the goodness and tears and joy and exhaustion and laughter it comes with.
To the moms who have lost, we love you.
To the almost-moms who are trying, we love you.
To the moms whose children are distant, we love you.
To the moms finding it difficult, we love you.
To the moms enjoying every moment, we love you.
To the moms on top of the world, we love you.
Cheers to moms - y’all carry a weight (literally and figuratively!), often with such grace. You are seen and appreciated - Happy Mother’s Day!
What a drizzly day!
Our May stickers (side note: these are so fun if you use scissors to cut them into 5 tiny little stickers!!!) are chilling here with a couple drizzled drips.
A splendid Iced Caramel Latte with Caramel Drizzle, and an Iced White Mocha Strawberry Cheesecake Coffee with White Mocha Drizzle. Whoa.
Drizzle any drink, really - with Caramel, Dark Mocha, or White Mocha. Mmm, saucy.
have you tried the Puff Tarts 🥰🔥
This one’s Cherry, a flaky warmed up bit of brilliance who happens to be sitting by a Cherry Orange Lotus.
We’ve got Blueberry and Cherry - and they’re equally lovely at room temperature as they are warmed up with frosting melting.
Hope your Wednesday is perfection - HI. 🤩
It’d been a long road, the tail end of 36 hours without sleep, and Anil was sitting in the parking lot watching the sun rise.
He meticulously spread the cream cheese across each half of the rainbow bagel he’d bought at the drive-thru coffee stand he’d found.
To think… 14 hours ago he’d been in Santiago, watching the unmarked vehicles speeding down the tarmac, too late, as his plane took off.
He took a sip of the hot coffee (with a splash of oat milk and some Shortbread flavor) that was resting in the cup holder of the vehicle that had been waiting for him when he landed. Soon he’d need to swap to another.
It was getting harder to hold it all in his mind, the roles, the names, the places. Maybe he was getting too old for this - confusing “himself” for any of the selves he was.
But for now, the bagel was hot, the coffee was smooth, and Anil was alone. He stretched his neck a little to relieve the cramping from the plane ride, and closed his eyes to let the sun hit his face directly.
Look at these two lovebirds.
On the right, a White Peach Special. Famous. Colorful. Wonderful to taste and to behold.
On the left, a random surprise Lotus. This is the way: “surprise me!” This one happens to be a Kiwi Lotus with Silver Shimmer, and Blue Raspberry on top. ShaPOW.
Their fun straws are embracing, because hey, Monday can be many things, and having a friend with you makes them all better. 🤩
Honestly WHICH Iced Latte Kate is so excited about isn’t incredibly relevant. There are 80+ flavors, and pretty much any mix of them will look like this picture.
But it’s a Pecan Pie Latte. (Do you say puhcahn or peecan? And while we’re at it, do you say car-muhl or care-a-mel? Or care-a-muhl?!)
Anyway HAPPY FRIDAY YOU BRILLIANT PEOPLE YOU. We like ya.
Mostly we were going to make a bunch of terrible puns about how chai rhymes with try and such, but that’s so cheesy, so we’ll give something else a chai.
Like talking about the alluring spiciness a perfect cup of chai has. Or how heavenly an Iced Cinnamon Roll Chai tastes (or hey, make it hot if your AC is rockin).
We could ruminate on the way it pairs with some Brown Sugar Cinnamon added. Or the flawless moment of a chai on its own… ok maybe with that Brown Sugar Cinnamon in a Soft Beak though?!
All these things are good. Hope your weekend is too!
That's my go to and it's amazing! 😍
JUNE STICKERS ARE IN
Celebrating Pride Month!
Two colorful sticker options this month, done by the illustrious muimooi, a Thai artist who’s a friend of ours (she also did our Christmas sticker last year!). They’re $3.5 each, or grab both for $6. Until they run out!
-
We’re big fans of caring for those around us, and are proud to celebrate pride alongside our friends.
We know it’s been specifically heavy in Florida lately for many people who celebrate pride, equality, and inclusion.
If you’re someone directly affected, know we stand with you. If you’ve got friends affected… maybe check in and send a little extra love this month.
We know rainbows and stickers and being flamboyant is cute and fun, but also know many of you are facing real adversity and discrimination just trying to go about your life. That’s rough.
May we all extend more of the love we hope for ourselves, and may your June be a brilliant one whoever you may be. 🌈
Our espresso machine will hopefully be back up by tomorrow by close… we know it’s a bummer when you are prepared for espresso and we don’t have it!
BUT! We’ve got allllllll our other drinks, including some amazing coffee. (Side note - did you know a coffee generally has more caffeine than espresso?)
Here’s a couple ways you can order Iced Coffee at White Duck… on the left, a simple coffee with some cream. On the right, an Iced Coffee with White Mocha, Toasted Marshmallow, Caramel Drizzle, and Whipped Cream.
Oh coffee, let us count the ways we love you. 🤩
What time do you close? Have to drop somebody off to Karate in that plaza this evening and that is SCREAMING my name!
I got my usually latte as a coffee and it tasted just as amazing. Your team is the best!!!
Looks delicious 😋
Those look good 👍
#welovewhiteduckespresso
Any news on the van dyke location?!
LOTUS SLUSHIES
Yes, tomorrow is June, so it’s time to get summery. Here’s a summary: LOTUS SLUSHIES.
Choose 1-3 flavors, or ask for a surprise (secret menu items don’t generally work as slushies). We’ll swirl it up into a perfect cup of slushy satisfaction and slide it out the window to refresh your thirst.
These photos are White Peach / Desert Pear, / Strawberry for one drink, and Lime / Kiwi / Blue Raspberry in the other!
GET SLUSHY, Y’ALL. IT’S SUMMER.
Am I going to be able to get this amazing thing in sugar free?
Melissa Chomycz I've never felt extreme NEED like this before. I NEED a lotus slushie.
omg ok but could you turn the pink starburst into a slushy??
Emily, guess I’m gonna have to come visit Mr. Pspspscal soon with a frosty offering for you!
SLUSHIES?!?!?!??
Ben Purdue
Cassandra Martinez
Tyler Dakota Dawson
Jennifer!!
Eric Parks
Addie Padgett 👁️👄👁️