The Hottest New Miami Bakery Is an RV in Coconut Grove

If you've recently walked through Coconut Grove and thought, "Did that adorable olive green RV with rows of yummy-looking pastries just smell like warm cinnamon rolls and banana bread?" Well, you're certainly not dreaming.

That was Ophelia, Miami's latest soon-to-be viral bakery that technically isn't a storefront bakery at all. (New Times has an amazing history of helping — or making — bakeries go viral. Ahem, remember our stories on Honey Veil Bakery, Casa Bake, and Domaselo, to name a few?)

Ophelia is a bakery on wheels, lovingly operated out of a retrofitted and fully made-from-scratch RV by pastry powerhouse Ana De Sa Martins and her partner-in-pastry (and life), Juan Vieira. The duo soft-launched the rollin' bakery on Thursday, May 29, with a sweet Instagram post announcing the opening: "We're officially open today from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.! Ophelia is our love letter to Miami. A cozy mobile bakery bringing sweet and savory pastries, hot sandwiches, and playful coffee drinks to the city that's given us so much."

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The caption continues, "After years in fine dining kitchens, we wanted to create something more personal: A space on wheels where everyone feels welcome and well-fed. Baked fresh. Made with care. Come say hi!"

And, boy, did they. Miami said hi with much enthusiasm, even forming a line the very hour it opened (that's very rare for Miamians at 9 a.m. on a Thursday). Fans of the pastry chef went straight to the comments, with one writing, "I feel honored that I was your 1000th follower! Congrats! Can't wait to check it out!"

Its Founder? An Award-Winning Pastry Chef: Ana De Sa Martins

But Ana De Sa Martins isn't your average self-taught baker like Miami has seen as of late. She's a 2025 Rising Star Pastry Chef by StarChefs, who left Venezuela at 18, taught herself English, trained at New York's prestigious Institute of Culinary Education, and honed her pastry skills at Lure Fishbar and Patisserie Chanson before taking her talents to South Beach in 2020. There, she led the pastry program at Stubborn Seed, where she basically built the dessert menu from scratch and made seasonal Florida fruit taste like magic.

But after years in the high-octane world of fine dining, Ana was ready for something different. So, she and Vieira created an adorable RV bakery from scratch (they designed the entire RV themselves!) that serves breakfast sandwiches like scrambled eggs and cheddar, and pastries like banana walnut bread, pistachio crumb cake, chocolate chunk cookies, and more. Plus, they even serve coffees and savory pastries, like a bacon and Swiss focaccia and gouda scones.
Although only a day old (we can't wait to check it out ourselves this weekend), Ophelia seems like it's more than a bakery. It might just be a moving love letter to Miami, complete with a steering wheel, a lot of delicious pastries, and two dreamers who decided that the best way to build community might just be to park it.

You can catch Ophelia parked in Coconut Grove from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.

Ophelia. 2140 S. Dixie Hwy., Miami; instagram.com/ophelia.miami. Open Thursday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. (for now).