Hot Shot Bakery and Cafe

I enjoyed my lunch — a hummus & avocado wrap. There was a substantial amount of hummus. My friends also liked their meals. The atmosphere is friendly & casual.

Excellent service from the owner. I made a custom sandwich hot turkey bacon Swiss with cranberry mustard sauce. Great food!

Great bagel breakfast sandwich! Everything is fresh and tasty. Quaint café/​bakery with friendly staff.

St. Augustine never fails to surprise. I know it can get a little chintzy, but beneath the tourist veneer there are some truly authentic experiences to be enjoyed. We chose Hot Shot out of sheer convenience. In a way, it’s the opposite of everything St. Augustine. Shabby on the outside, surprisingly good inside.
We were served by Meghan who’s super friendly and engaging. My wife and I both had an egg scramble which was good, served with thick cut slices of home baked whole wheat bread slathered with datil orange preserve. That alone made the experience amzing
Then she brought out the datil sauces, calibrated by heat.
That took the eggs to another level. My wife also added a portion of sweet potato pancakes, served with a caramel sugar sauce on the side. Pancakes and sweet things are not my thing, but this was one of those experiences that instantly induced food coma. Amazing.
We got to talk to the owner and I was struck by her passion for excellence. Doesn’t matter that her storefront is modest. Her food is awesome.
Food with integrity. Five stars.

We got stuck in the rain coming from the museum and ran across into this cozy place! Try the Leon panini– it’s delish! The turkey panini is great as well. Both had me and my bf saying «wow» after the first bites! Datil pepper challenge wasn’t too bad either! Also the manager is very sweet!

Very good service and food! The home made hot sauce is awesome!
The bacon grilled cheese was yum!
The scrambler was a great portion!
Coffee was just right too!

As a vegetarian finding food can be a challenge in the South, but the vegetarian panini was fantastic! Freshly pressed and all the ingredients tasted really fresh.
Their desserts here are also relaly great, my favorite are the themes cupcakes.

Love, love, love their Datil Pepper Sauces. Just stopped there today to stock up for summer on our annual road trip from Daytona to Pennsylvania bringing son home from college. Sherry and her crew will take good care of you AND she will ship sauce to you when you run out.

Stumbled upon this café after a stop at the Lightner Museum and so glad we walked in to check it out. It’s convenient to the Museum, Casa Monica and Flager, tucked down the little side street.
Very friendly service and good food at very good prices.
They have enough choices that it satisfied all 10 in our family group, who have a wide variety of tastes. I’m the vegetarian of the family and I was very pleased with the hummus wrap with avocado and tomato. It was flavorful and filling and I’ve been craving another one ever since.
With a nice desert selection, too, this would also be a great stop for a snack.
It will be on our list now to visit every time we are in St. Augustine.

Yumification.®©™
Panini with sausage and cheddar was killer. The sausage was spiced to a delight. The side potatoes reminded me if moms stew.
Older guy, white hair, grandfather type, was exactly the personality you want to interact with.
He’s a smoothie newbie who makes a large into an xLg. The «overage» goes to random customers… hi, I’m random!
I tried the prior smoothie overage and then got my own. That overage went to Alicia who was just on duty for 3 hours and was sweeter than Alabama porch tea.
Even the chef was cool.
Location? Pshhht… Ideal!
Watch the college babes strut by or taunt the endless parade of tour trolleys — they turn RIGHT IN FRONT. Best ppl watching café in a few 1000 miles of cross country traveling.

Needed a quick bite before out Flagler College tour and this is right across the Flagler statue
Awesome grilled cheese on homemade bread
Veggie panini also good although the avocado didn’t look so fresh
Tasty smoothie: mango strawberry
Lemonade — wasn’t fresh squeezed, maybe
Not the season, I think she mixed Motts apple juice in it…
Too many small shops and cafés to try in St augestine to come back since it was just all right… but it was quick and we got to our tour on time!

The staff was amazing as well as the food. Small location but big taste on the food.

Lame. My wife had some waffles that came with rotten bananas. My panini was just a grilled sandwich, not a panini. The girl at the country rolled her eyes when my wife was trying to decide what to get out of the dessert case. I saw you! One more thing, they use crappy mustard.

Solid. We had a tasty lunch. Fast service. Casual place to grab a coffee and sandwich. Fresh stuff.

This was supposed to be just a coffee stop as we passed through at Augustine. Well as soon as we walked in, that changed. After looking at the menu we ended up having the whole family come inside. The man and lady behind the counter where so nice and got everything we ordered without much wait. This place just blows my mind, it’s sooo good. Have to try the iced coffee!

Visited this place based purely on how convenient it was to the Casa Monica. The employees are friendly and if I had to recommend a breakfast option I would go with the croissant sandwich. The one thing they could work on is building some sort of ventilation system. It gets extremely smokey inside!

Oh my god why didn’t I find this place sooner? We’ve been to Saint Augustine so many times and had mediocre breakfasts and Hot Shot was right there under our noses. The breakfasts are amazing and served by the nicest southern couple. They make their own datil hot sauce and it’s hypnotically delicious.
They are DOG FRIENDLY! They love dogs and have a deck behind them.

I had breakfast there last week and it was very good. They have a Datil pepper sauce they make on site it is great. They sell to the public. One novelty is chocholate covered Datil Peppers, eat one and you get your pic on the wall. It is a little hot. They close early at 4pm

Well, my photo is up on the wall. My husband thought it’d be fun to try the chocolate-​covered datil peppers (there’s a Wall of Flame or something happening now). I stupidly agreed and downed one after posing for the «hey, you’re about to die!» photograph. Most Mexican restaurant salsas are too spicy for me… I really should have known better.
Our story ends with me in tears, licking a napkin to try to get the fire out of my mouth. The guy behind the counter was INCREDIBLY nice and gave me an ice-​cream on the house to help with the burn.
Food was great (I had the veggie panini), service was excellent. As much as I hated that datil pepper, I’m glad I did it. Now I never have to do it again.

Very nice and quaint inside
Neat Datil pepper theme
They make chocolate deserts mixed with pepper and many other items.
Café style
They make their own datil pepper hot sauce and many other flavors