The Sourdoughist

The Sourdoughist Sourdough Craft & Wholesale Bakery • Organic • 🇩🇪 • 3343 South Westshore Blvd TPA • 36 Hour Fermented • Pro-Trained 🇩🇪, 🇨🇦, 🇫🇷, 🌉 • ✌🏻 💕🥖

MEET THE WOMAN BEHIND THE BREAD. 🥖Shelby is the baker, founder and heart behind The Sourdoughist. ❤️Her story is a littl...
09/02/2026

MEET THE WOMAN BEHIND THE BREAD. 🥖

Shelby is the baker, founder and heart behind The Sourdoughist. ❤️

Her story is a little bigger than bread:

🇩🇪 It started in Germany — where her love for European bread, traditional techniques and slow fermentation really took root.

✈️ 62 countries & counting — Shelby has spent years studying food and culture around the world, bringing those experiences back into the bakery.

🔬 Science meets sourdough — with degrees in Anthropology/Archaeology and a Master’s in Public Health, her curiosity about why things work has always followed her into the kitchen.

🍞16+ years of professional baking — with formal bread and pastry training across Germany, France, Italy and Canada.

🏠 From a few loaves to a full shop — Saturday pop-ups turned into lines out the door, wholesale accounts, classes and eventually the bakery you know today.

Through it all, one philosophy has stayed the same:

Great bread takes time. ⏳

Organic ingredients. Naturally leavened. Long-fermented. Traditional technique. No shortcuts.

Now let’s show Shelby some love in the comments! 🤍

+ while you’re here, tell us:

What’s your favorite thing about The Sourdoughist? 👀

We want to hear it! ⬇️

🚨 TAMPA, WE NEED YOUR VOTE. 🚨Apparently, all that sourdough, coffee, bagels & desserts have gotten us into a little comp...
09/01/2026

🚨 TAMPA, WE NEED YOUR VOTE. 🚨

Apparently, all that sourdough, coffee, bagels & desserts have gotten us into a little competition… 🥖👀

We’re officially nominated for Tampa Magazine’s 2027 Best Restaurants — Best Bagels & Desserts! 🏆

And now we need our favorite people to do what they do best: TAP, VOTE & REPEAT ❤️

You can vote once every day through September 13th! 📆

So if we have ever made your morning a little better, your sandwich a little tastier, or your sweet tooth very, very happy… this is your sign. 😉

👉 VOTE FOR THE SOURDOUGHIST and let’s show Tampa what happens when you don’t cut corners. 🥖🏆

THIS ONE DOESN’T NEED AN INTRODUCTION. 🍊🎂There’s a reason our Orange Olive Oil Cake has become a local favorite. 🥮Real o...
08/31/2026

THIS ONE DOESN’T NEED AN INTRODUCTION. 🍊🎂

There’s a reason our Orange Olive Oil Cake has become a local favorite. 🥮

Real organic ingredients, real flavor and absolutely no cutting corners — just a beautifully simple cake made the way we believe it should be.

👇 Have you tried the Orange Olive Oil Cake yet?

Tell us in the comments OR tag the person who needs an organic sourdough cake moment. 🧡

08/30/2026

Fresh sourdough donuts + cinnamon sugar = a love story with absolutely no chance of us getting over it. 🥰

AND if cinnamon sugar isn’t your soulmate…🎶

More flavors are coming soon. 👀

Tag the person you’d share a donut with… or don’t. 👇

We fully support keeping the good stuff to yourself. 🍩

We’re BACK in Carrollwood! 🥖🤍The Sourdoughist has officially returned to Southern Steer Butcher in Carrollwood — and the...
08/28/2026

We’re BACK in Carrollwood! 🥖🤍

The Sourdoughist has officially returned to Southern Steer Butcher in Carrollwood — and the shelves are stocked with our handcrafted, naturally leavened sourdough!

Same long fermentation. Same beautiful crust. Same bread you know and love — now a little closer to our Carrollwood friends. 🖤

Stop by Southern Steer, grab a loaf (or two 😉), and tell them The Sourdoughist sent you!

✨ Freshly baked
🌾 Naturally leavened
🥖 Handcrafted in Tampa
🇺🇸 Proudly Veteran-Owned

Carrollwood, we missed you. Go get your bread. 🥖

🏴‍☠️ GAME DAY BREAD IS HERE. 🏈🍞Tampa Bay, we understood the assignment. 😏Our BUCS Sourdough Loaf is hitting the shelves ...
08/28/2026

🏴‍☠️ GAME DAY BREAD IS HERE. 🏈🍞

Tampa Bay, we understood the assignment. 😏

Our BUCS Sourdough Loaf is hitting the shelves FRIDAY — handcrafted, naturally leavened, and almost too pretty to eat. Almost.

❤️ Limited quantity
🏴‍☠️ Available Friday
🍞 First come, first served — no holds

Grab yours for the game and bring a little Tampa Bay to the game-day table.

GO BUCS! FIRE THE CANNONS! 🏴‍☠️🔥🏈

08/27/2026

⚠️ WARNING: MAY CAUSE AN UNNECESSARY TRIP TO THE BAKERY. 🍩

There’s something about a fresh sourdough donut rolled in cinnamon sugar that makes all self-control disappear. 😮‍💨

Warm. Soft. Crispy. Sweet.
The kind of donut that turns “I’ll just have one” into “okay… maybe one more.” 🤌

Yes, they’re made with 100% sourdough and fried in all natural avocado oil. 🥑

Trust us, it’s not cheap… but neither is our obsession with quality. 😊

Tag the person you’re sharing a dozen with.👇

It all started at Flying Cattle Meat Market. 🥹🍞In 2024, TD Koenn bought some bread from me and told me he was getting re...
08/27/2026

It all started at Flying Cattle Meat Market. 🥹🍞

In 2024, TD Koenn bought some bread from me and told me he was getting ready to open a store. A week later, he texted and asked if I’d consider doing pop-ups there.

At the time, I was simply sharing my “art” with people who wanted it. I had trained in Garmisch, Paris & Tuscany in breadmaking and pastry, but I never imagined those experiences would eventually become the foundation for a bakery of my own.

I said yes.

Six months later, we had a line out the door at nearly every pop-up, and I was teaching sourdough to our community. Six months after that, we launched wholesale and started searching for a home of our own.

And now… The Sourdoughist has one. 🥹

Flying Cattle gave us a place to grow before we had a place of our own. So many of you found us there—you stood in those lines, bought the bread, took my classes, told your friends, and eventually followed us into our own bakery.

From a few loaves in 2024, to pop-ups, to wholesale, to our own bakery in 2026. Now we’re back at Flying Cattle Meat Market where it all started… Full ⭕️!

Funny how one text—and one yes—can change the trajectory of your life.

And we’re just getting started. 🖤🍞

— The Sourdoughist
Proudly Veteran-Owned 🇺🇸

A little peek at what’s coming out of the ovens this week…👀🍥 Japanese milk bread cinnamon rolls🍋 Lemon lavender cookies🍪...
08/26/2026

A little peek at what’s coming out of the ovens this week…👀

🍥 Japanese milk bread cinnamon rolls
🍋 Lemon lavender cookies
🍪 Jackpot cookies
🍊 Orange olive oil cake

AND that’s just the start... 😅

We’re always baking, rotating, experimenting and finding new ways to keep the case interesting… so we need to know:

What have you been loving lately?🫵

Plus, more importantly… what do you want to see us make next?🤔

Let us know in the comments. 👇

Address

3343 South West Shore Boulevard
Tampa, FL
33629

Opening Hours

Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 8am - 5pm
Sunday 8am - 2pm

Telephone

+18139229488

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