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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New Video Takes Viewers Inside the Kitchen Where Handmade Pastries, Ukrainian Traditions and Creative Desserts Come to Life
Behind the pink-and-gold interior of Nubo Café & Bakery on Cleveland Street, a team of bakers is turning simple ingredients into elaborate cakes, colorful desserts and irresistible treats—fresh from scratch every day.
Now, a new Cleveland Street Alliance video takes viewers inside the kitchen to meet the people behind those creations.
Located at 420 Cleveland Street, Nubo is a family-owned Ukrainian café that combines traditional recipes with European flavors and a distinctive atmosphere created by owners Oleksandr and Oksana Kozlenko.
Leading the tour is Nubo’s Irina Vakhonina, who takes viewers into the kitchen to meet the team behind the café’s handmade creations.
“The magic happens here,” she says as the camera moves into the bakery.
The video follows the bakers at work, from croissants, red velvet cake and traditional Ukrainian honey cake to a passion fruit mango creation made with white chocolate, real fruit, cream and—as Vakhonina puts it—love.
There is even a miniature marshmallow dog, one of Nubo’s playful creations that Vakhonina describes as “almost too cute to eat.”
But for Vakhonina, the reward comes when those creations reach the customers.
“For us, it’s really about making something beautiful, make it fresh and then getting to see people enjoy it, right here,” she says.
The video also captures customers enjoying the results, from their first tastes of Nubo’s desserts to their reactions to the new café and the changes taking shape along Cleveland Street.
“There’s things popping up like Nubo,” says one customer. “It’s great to see that the community is coming together and creating a vibrant downtown.”
As historic buildings are restored and new businesses prepare to open along Cleveland Street, Nubo offers a glimpse of what that transformation means for the people who live, work and visit downtown.
Behind every storefront are people bringing it to life. At Nubo, they are the bakers in the kitchen, the customers discovering new flavors and the friends and families finding another place to gather.
And that is how a downtown comes to life.
The new video, Nubo Behind the Scenes, is available at clevelandstreetalliance.com.
Cleveland Street Alliance is leading a coordinated effort to revitalize downtown Clearwater through a series of historic restoration and redevelopment projects along Cleveland Street. Through sustained investment and a building-by-building approach, the initiative is restoring landmark properties, reactivating the corridor and reestablishing the district as a center of activity and commerce.
To learn more, visit clevelandstreetalliance.com.
Email: mediarelations@clevelandstreetalliance.com
Phone Number: (727) 362-7000
