key lime pie factory®
was featured in the following
TV shows:
Food Finds — Food Network
Unwrapped — Food Network
Food Wars — Travel Channel
Hit Trip with Kenney
Chesney — CMT
Road Tasted with Jamie and
Bobby Deen — Food Network
3 Days Weekend — Turner South
Deco Drive -Fox and others
Blue Heaven Vs Blond Giraffe
WINNER: BLOND GIRAFFE
Our Story
Blond Giraffe® Key Lime Pie Factory®
We make Key Lime Pie. And yes, it’s pretty good!
Our job is to make people happy. Yes, we make amazing Key Lime Pie using the very best, real ingredients. And yes, we think our pies are pretty wonderful—but for us, it has always been about something more: putting a smile on someone’s face.
We’re passionate—some might even say obsessed—about the creative process. Whether we’re developing something new for the store or putting together the perfect music playlist, we throw ourselves into it because we truly love what we do.
Our Italian, French, and Brazilian heritage—and our long family history with food and baking—have always inspired us. But our greatest inspiration comes from our loyal customers. They expect quality, and so do we.
That’s why our Key Lime Pies are made fresh on the premises every day.
Tania Beguinati — Founder & Co-Owner
Tania Beguinati, a lawyer by profession, brought something very special to the new restaurant: her grandmother’s Brazilian recipe for Key Lime Pie.
The In 1999, Tania and Roberto entered this treasured family recipe in the Key Lime Pie Contest, where it won First Place for Best Key Lime Pie in Key West. That award marked the beginning of a story that continues today.
Twenty-seven years later, the awards are still coming. What began with a single family recipe has grown into much more. Today, the store offers around 170 items, from cookies, meringues, gourmet candies and Key Lime Pies topped with meringue, whipped cream, or chocolate drizzle—and, of course, there is the famous
Pie on a Stick, a frozen slice of Key Lime Pie dipped in semisweet chocolate, which has become one of the store's signature treats.
Roberto Madeira - Founder and Co-owner
“I can’t remember the last time I wore a pair of pants.”
After many years as a financial consultant in Brazil, Roberto Madeira and his wife, Tania Beguinati, arrived in Key West in 1999 with a dream of building a new life. Together, they opened Blond Giraffe, which began as a vegetarian restaurant.
One of their neighbors was a true Conch—a Key West native whose family had lived on the island for generations. She visited the restaurant almost every day to buy their Key Lime Pies and often told Tania and Roberto, "if there is ever a Key Lime Pie Contest, you have to enter. You will win."
Months later, Roberto was reading the local newspaper when he spotted an announcement for the very first Key Lime Pie Contest ever held in Key West at city's inaugural Key Lime Contest.
Remembering their neighbor’s words, Tania and Roberto made a last-minute decision to enter .
She was right.
Competing against 17 other contestants their family recipe won First Place for Best Key Lime Pie in Key West. By the very next day, customers were arriving at the restaurant asking for the Award-Winning Key Lime Pie. That unexpected victory changed the course of their business and ultimately inspired Tania and Roberto to transform their vegetarian restaurant into Blond Giraffe® Key Lime Pie Factory®—beginning a story that continues more than 27 years later.
