Create/JoJo’s Coffee & Goodness

Create/JoJo’s Coffee & Goodness operates as the in-house coffee bar and bakery inside Create, an art teaching studio in Bluewater Bay’s Pineapple Plaza, a small retail center off Highway 20 east of central Niceville. The shop pours Arabica coffee and turns out pastries made fresh daily, giving visitors to the art studio, and anyone else passing through the plaza, a reason to grab a drink and a baked good between browsing a class schedule and checking out the plaza’s other shops.

The shop keeps a short, coffee-shop schedule built around the art studio’s own hours. It opens at 7:30 a.m. and closes at 2 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and stays closed Sunday and Monday, so it functions as a morning-into-early-afternoon stop rather than an all-day cafe. That window lines up with a mid-morning coffee run or an early lunch pastry rather than an evening visit.

Bluewater Bay itself, the master-planned community that surrounds Pineapple Plaza, dates to 1978, when a Development Order was approved for roughly 2,000 acres along the shore east of Niceville. A developer had assembled the original 1,600 acres for the project a few years earlier, and after environmental and archaeological review, an additional 210 acres were added to the community in 1990. The community grew to include a golf course designed by Tom Fazio and Jerry Pate, tennis facilities, walking paths, and a 120-slip marina, and today counts thousands of homes spread across dozens of subdivisions. That backdrop makes a stop at Create/JoJo’s a natural pairing with a longer visit to Bluewater Bay’s marina, golf courses, or waterfront, rather than an isolated coffee errand.

Address 4652 Highway 20 East, Suite 102, sits within this same retail plaza, and the coffee shop’s exact placement inside an art teaching studio is an unusual setup even by the standards of Niceville’s growing coffee scene, which also includes independent roasters and chain shops scattered along John Sims Parkway and Highway 20. No official website could be found for Create/JoJo’s Coffee & Goodness during research, and its social channels were not independently accessible either, so visitors should treat a phone call to 850-737-6193 as the most reliable way to confirm current hours or ask whether a class is in session before stopping by.

Because the shop is tucked inside a working art studio rather than run as a standalone storefront, it rewards visitors who plan a stop around browsing the studio itself, whether that means signing up for a class, admiring student or instructor work on display, or simply enjoying a quieter coffee break away from the busier chain cafes along the main highway corridor. Locally owned and small in footprint, it fits the profile of a neighborhood find inside a larger planned community rather than a destination cafe on its own, and it rewards visitors who build their Bluewater Bay time around the plaza’s mix of small, independent businesses.

Visitors staying in or near Bluewater Bay for a longer trip, whether for the golf courses, the marina, or the neighborhood itself, can treat Create/JoJo’s as a low-key breakfast or mid-morning stop before heading to the water or the fairways, rather than as a standalone destination worth a special trip from elsewhere in Niceville. Its narrow hours and its home inside an art studio make it a distinctly local, low-profile find, the kind of place a visitor is more likely to stumble across while exploring Pineapple Plaza than to seek out directly, which is part of its appeal for anyone looking to see a quieter side of the Niceville and Bluewater Bay area beyond the main highway commercial strip.