Gourmet Smoothie Bar: Ultimate Nutrition Shop Opens In St. Pete

Looking back on the 2000s, smoothie shops were everywhere. There was anything from fruity and sweet to bitter grass shakes and somewhere along the line, they disappeared. Now, The Ultimate Nutrition Shop opened in St. Pete with a walk-up smoothie bar and supplement shop with some wild flavors to choose from.

Ultimate Nutrition Shop first opened its doors back in March but had its grand opening last Saturday, June 15th with a live DJ, vendors, discounts, and more. The shop is located at 970 58th Street North in Tyrone just a few storefronts down from Crunch Fitness.

When you walk inside, there are racks loaded with options for different supplements to choose from. They’ve got the latest flavors from PE Science, Axe & Sledge, Revive, Raw Nutrition, Promix, Project AD and more. You’ll also find vitamins and other nutritional supplements for outside the gym.

When you first roll up to Ultimate Nutrition Shop, you’ll notice the walk-up smoothie bar windows right out front. They have a few chairs where you can sit and chill in the shade while you wait for your drink.

For the workout shot smoothies, there are two size options. The Regular smoothing starts at $10 and the large smoothie starts at $12 with organic substitutes for $1 more.

Here’s where it gets interesting … the flavors. We’ll start off with the Oreo Madness Smoothies. With the Oreo smoothie, you get to pick your own Oreo Cookies, then there’s organic house-made almond milk, cookies and cream Whey protein (30-60g), Oreo crumbles, and chocolate drizzle packed into the smoothie.

Next up is the Gourmet POP-TART Smooties. You can choose from S’mores, Wild Berry, Strawberry, Brown Sugar Cinnamon, and Fudge brownie POP-TART packed inside with organic house-made almond milk and 30-60g of whey protein.

Adding to the stacked lineup of smoothie rings in the cereal smoothie. You can choose from classic nostalgic cereals like Fruity Pebbles, Reese’s Pieces, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Fruit Loops, and Cocoa Pebbles packed inside with their organic house-made almond milk and 30-60g of whey protein.

Now onto the protein waffles. With the protein waffle option, you can take any smoothie on the menu and turn it into a protein waffle stacked with whipped cream and toppings. Check out the photo below. 

You can also add on, to any smoothie, organic peanut butter organic almond butter, whipped cream, milk, organic honey, organic coconut almond crunch, isolate protein, vegan protein, organic oats, greens, glutamine, creatine, BCAAs, collagen, or supercarb.

Ultimate Nutrition Shop in St. Pete does not yet have a website, but their Instagram is updated daily so you can check that out here.

There are a lot of things to consider when moving to the Tampa Bay area. Affordability, night life, walkability, safety, etc. Maybe you're thinking of moving from Hillsborough to Pinellas or from out of state and now all that's left to pick is the area. Well, these are the best neighborhoods in St. Pete, according to locals.

We were browsing on the St. Pete reddit thread the other day when someone was curious about the perks and positive experiences of different neighborhoods in St. Pete. Local redditors weren't afraid to voice their opinions. What's nice is it seems like most of the chatter was positive, which is a pretty rare thing to see when talking about how Tampa/St. Pete has changed over the years.

Locals and transplants can find common ground on why Tampa is such a great place to live. There are lots of reasons why people save all year just to visit. The year-round warm weather is a big selling point for those relocating from colder states. We have some of the best beaches in the country, a melting pot of foodie culture, soon to have a stellar baseball stadium and across the bridge we have championship winning sports teams.

Of course, with all major cities, you'll run into a few cons as well. Many complain about growing homeless population, cost of living, HOA's among others.

Before we get into the best neighborhoods in St. Pete (according to locals), we need to include these honorary mentions. These are great neighborhoods that a few people pointed out in the reddit thread:

This was the most common St. Pete neighborhood shouted out on the reddit thread. But not for the reasons you may think. Everyone seems to love this area because of all the peacocks grazing around the lake.

Driftwood, located on Big Bayou just south of 22nd Avenue South. Many homes in the neighborhood were designed during the 1930s-40s and still remain. They have a very tropical features with jungle-like landscaping. We hope they never start to govern the overgrown greenery because that's what makes the area so special.

Historic Old Northeast is just a stone throw away to Downtown St. Pete and includes the North Shore Park. It claims to have 3,000 historic buildings within its boundaries. The area also borders Coffee Pot Bay, famous for its resident manatees. Some redditors also mentioned this is the neighborhood to check out during the holidays because they go all out. But again, good luck finding a house that sells less for $1 million in this area.

Centrally located but not too loud/busy. Residents say there's more space and larger lots than Old Northeast and Euclid, less expensive than Crescent Heights, no flood zone, and just a 6 minute bike ride to the water and a 10 minute bike ride to northeast park by Vinoy.

This was the first residential subdivision in Downtown St. Pete. It's filled with a wide variety of architectural styles like Bungalow, Prairie, Foursquare, Craftsman, Mediterranean Revival, Colonial Revival, Neoclassical, and Tudor Revival.