Mastry’s Art Shop - Coffee & Decor
Espresso, Decor, and Art to Measure - Mastry's Art Shop
In the back of a Grand Central coffee-and-decor concept store, an interior designer's gallery sells art the way a tailor sells suits — locally inspired, globally discovered, and cut to fit your wall.
The best way to find Mastry's Art Shop is to follow the smell of espresso. At 2210 Central Avenue, in the heart of the Grand Central District, the storefront belongs to Pour & Decor — one part Italian coffee bar, one part home decor boutique — and the gallery lives in the back: a quiet, concentrated room of coastal scenes, abstracts, and statement pieces where visitors regularly report losing half an hour after coming in for a cappuccino. The arrangement is not an accident. It is the entire business model, and it makes this address one of the more original experiments in how art gets sold in St. Petersburg.
Three Businesses, One Doorway
The concept arrived in the winter of 2023–24, when Gabrielle Cuccaro — a born-and-raised St. Pete native whose parents own Mazzaro's Italian Market, the beloved 22nd Avenue North institution — opened Pour & Decor as her first venture after years working retail and the family market. The coffee program runs on traditional Italian espresso drinks and Mazzaro's beans; the retail floor, stocked with tabletop decor and lifestyle gifts, took Best of the Bay honors in 2024 as the best place in Tampa Bay to buy a unique gift.
The third piece came through a partnership. Michael Mastry, owner and principal designer of Haven Design — the St. Petersburg interior design firm also serving Sarasota — launched a dedicated art gallery and secondary showroom inside the space, announced from the start as part of a plan to create what Mastry called an "experiential destination location" in the Grand Central District. Mastry's Art Shop is, formally, Haven Design's art division: the room where an interior design practice opens its art-sourcing machinery to the walk-in public.
That lineage explains everything distinctive about how the shop works.
Art, Custom-Sized
Most galleries in this directory sell singular objects: the one painting, the one vessel, take it or leave it at the size the artist made it. Mastry's sells something closer to a service. The shop's motto — locally inspired, globally discovered, customizable — is meant literally: the majority of its pieces come from artist partners whose works can be reproduced larger or smaller to suit a specific wall, with the design team coordinating framing, delivery, and installation, typically inside thirty days. Every piece on the floor is hand-picked by designers, and the floor itself is only the sample book — consultations, offered on-site at the shop or at the client's home (and, the shop notes, available nationwide), open a far deeper inventory matched to space, style, and budget.
The clientele follows from the model. Alongside homeowners hunting a signature piece, Mastry's builds collections for hotels, restaurants, offices, and coffee shops — the shop's materials note placements from private homes to Broadway theaters — the commercial art-curation trade that usually happens invisibly, through designers, here given a storefront and a friendly face. Reviewers consistently name that face: Brandy, the gallery's resident guide, praised across platforms for walking visitors through every artist and option, website customizations included.
It's worth being precise about the category, because it's a new one for this directory: Mastry's calls itself an art shop, not a fine art gallery, and the distinction is honest. Much of the inventory is scalable editions from partner artists rather than one-of-one originals (though originals are in the mix, and visitors praise the one-of-a-kind finds). The trade-off is the point — accessibility, fit, and speed over rarity. For the buyer furnishing a new condo who has fallen in love with a piece four inches too small for the wall above the sofa, no other gallery in St. Petersburg solves the problem this directly.
The Grand Central Fit
There is also something fitting about where this experiment landed. The Grand Central District has always been the city's most retail-fluent arts corridor — the district of galleries that share blocks with breweries, antique stores, and boutiques — and Pour & Decor's stack of espresso, decor, and art is that character distilled into a single address. The Mazzaro's connection gives it deep local roots; the Haven Design engine gives it professional polish; and the coffee gives every browser a reason to linger, which any gallerist will tell you is ninety percent of the sale.
The visit is easy to design: weekday mornings are quietest, the espresso is genuinely good, and the gallery's back-corner room doubles as an events and small-showing space. Come for the cortado. Leave with a wall solved.
Visit: Mastry's Art Shop, inside Pour & Decor, 2210 Central Ave., Suite B, St. Petersburg (Grand Central District). Shop hours generally weekdays 9 a.m.–5 p.m. (Pour & Decor open Mon–Fri 8–5, Sat 9–4; closed Sunday). Consultations bookable online. Information: MastryArt.com, (727) 479-6675, or through HavenDesign.com.
Sources: St. Pete Rising; Mastry's Art Shop and Haven Design business materials; Pour & Decor; Yelp and public listings; Creative Loafing Best of the Bay 2024.
