The Love Loaf
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A beloved Miami Beach bakery is losing its cherished home. The Love Loaf says it is “being forced to shut down” its North Beach bakery at 7415 Collins Ave. on Wednesday, Sept. 30. Owner Suzana “Suzi” Rodrigues has already lined up its next home one block south at 7337 Collins Ave., though the bread ovens will be off for a while.
Rodrigues shared the news on Instagram on August 13. She did not say what prompted the forced closure, and New Times has reached out for more information.
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The Ocean Terrace connection
Rodrigues did not name a landlord or development project, but available records place the bakery within the footprint of the massive Ocean Terrace redevelopment. A commercial property listing groups the bakery’s 7415 Collins Ave. storefront with the building at 7409 Collins Ave., and the city’s development agreement includes 7409 Collins Ave. in the Ocean Terrace site, which stretches across nearly the full block between 74th and 75th streets.
City-approved plans call for extensive demolition, restoration, and new construction across the site, including residential and hotel towers with new retail space. Urbanize reported in March that the developer expected to break ground later in 2026.
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The project has already forced out another neighborhood food business. Taquiza closed its longtime location at 7450 Ocean Terrace on July 31, as the Broadmoor Hotel prepared for construction. The Love Loaf sits within the same listed development site. Whether the redevelopment is the direct reason Rodrigues must leave remains unconfirmed.
The move comes a little more than two years after Rodrigues opened the permanent shop in 2024. She spent 20 years working in corporate finance before turning to baking, and the business took three years to open its Collins Avenue storefront. At the current bakery, the team mills organic flour in-house for sourdough made with heirloom and ancient grains. The menu also includes pastries and cakes, plus sandwiches, coffee, and matcha.
Rodrigues credited customers for making the two-year-old shop feel rooted in the neighborhood. “The heart of our bakery will always belong to North Beach,” she wrote.
The Love Loaf
A 2027 return to North Beach
Moving one block sounds simple enough; however, the new space still needs considerable work to meet code requirements, and Rodrigues estimates The Love Loaf will reopen during the first half of 2027.
“Our best estimate is that we will open our doors again sometime in the first half of 2027,” she wrote.
Rodrigues has no firm plan for the months between locations. Her first priority is keeping the full staff together, which means finding a temporary production kitchen where the team can continue baking. She is considering pop-ups and delivery, possibly through a collaboration with another local business.
“One of my priorities is to keep my team,” Rodrigues wrote. “We are family.”
Customers start pitching places
The Instagram comments quickly turned into a real estate conversation. One person offered Rodrigues space at 7500 Collins Ave. Others suggested a hotel pop-up or a ghost kitchen.
“OMG go pop-up and delivery… we will all support you,” one commenter wrote. Another had a more personal response to the coming gap: “I’m not eating bread until then.”
Relief that the bakery would stay close was immediate. “Thank goodness you are staying in the neighborhood!” one person wrote.
Rodrigues asked anyone with an idea, opportunity, or possible production space to contact the bakery. She plans to keep posting updates as the team figures out where it will bake after Wednesday, Sept. 30.
The Love Loaf. 7415 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; theloveloaf.com. Closing Wednesday, September 30.
