Blond Giraffe Key Lime Pie Factory featured on Food Wars after winning Best Key Lime Pie in Florida.

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

Award-winning Key Lime Pie slice from Blond Giraffe Key Lime Pie Factory

Chocolate-dipped Key Lime Pie on a Stick from Blond Giraffe Key Lime Pie Factory in Tavernier, Florida Keys.

Whole Key Lime Pie made fresh daily at Blond Giraffe Key Lime Pie Factory in Tavernier.

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.

The pie had everything that made it unforgettable—a crispy graham cracker crust, a creamy filling with just the right balance of sweetness and tartness, and a beautiful meringue topping.

It was this family recipe that Tania and Roberto entered in the 1999 Key Lime Pie Contest—and the recipe that won First Place for Best Key Lime Pie in Key West.

Twenty-seven years later, the awards are still coming. What began with one family recipe has grown into much more. Today, the store offers around 170 items, from cookies, meringues, and gourmet candies to Key Lime Pies topped with meringue, whipped cream, or chocolate drizzle—and, of course, the famous frozen Pie on a Stick, dipped in semisweet chocolate.

Tania Beguinati, founder and co-owner of Blond Giraffe Key Lime Pie Factory.

Roberto Madeira and co-owner of Blond Giraffe Key Lime Pie Factory.

Roberto Madeira - Founder and Co-owner

“I can’t remember the last time I wore a pair of pants.”
After many years working as a financial consultant in Brazil, Roberto Madeira and his wife, Tania Beguinati, arrived in Key West in 1999 with a dream of starting a new life. Together, they opened Blond Giraffe, originally a vegetarian restaurant.
At the time, one of their neighbors was a true Conch—a Key West native whose family had lived there for generations. She came to the restaurant almost every day to buy their Key Lime Pies and repeatedly told Tania and Roberto that if there were ever a Key Lime Pie Contest, they should enter because she was certain they would win.
Months later, Roberto was reading the local newspaper when he noticed that a Key Lime Pie Contest was being held that very day. Remembering their neighbor’s words, Tania and Roberto decided to enter at the last minute.
And she was right. They won First Place for Best Key Lime Pie in Key West, competing against 17 other contestants!
The very next day, people came to the restaurant looking for their Award-Winning Key Lime Pie. That unexpected victory changed everything—and inspired Tania and Roberto to transform their vegetarian restaurant into Blond Giraffe® Key Lime Pie Factory®

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