Vicky Bakery, the Cuban bakery that Antonio and Gelasia Cao started in Hialeah in 1972, has put Pompano Beach on its map. The company's own locations directory now lists a Pompano shop at 1154 N. Federal Highway, marked Baking Soon, which will make it the first Vicky in the city and the closest one to Pompano's beachside neighborhoods.

Where it is going

The address sits on the stretch of Federal Highway between Atlantic Boulevard and Copans Road, the part of US 1 that most east Pompano residents drive several times a week on the way to the beach or north toward Lighthouse Point and Deerfield Beach. The listing on Vicky Bakery's Pompano page gives the full street address and ZIP code 33062, but no hours, phone number or opening date yet. Those fields are still blank, which is how the company handles stores that are being built out.

Until now, a Pompano resident who wanted a Vicky pastelito had to drive. The nearest shops on the company's locations list are on Las Olas Boulevard in downtown Fort Lauderdale, on University Drive in Coral Springs and on Kimberly Boulevard in west Boca Raton. None of them is a quick trip from the Federal Highway corridor on a weekday morning, which is exactly when a Cuban bakery does most of its business.

A Hialeah story that kept growing

The family history on the company's Our Story page is short and worth knowing. Antonio and Gelasia Cao met while working at La Vencedora, a well known bakery in Cuba. They married, came to Miami as exiles, saved enough to buy a small bakery in Hialeah, and opened Vicky Bakery there in 1972. The company says the pastry recipes have not changed since, and that the couple's children are the ones who grew a single Hialeah storefront into a chain across Florida.

That growth is the part most people in Broward have watched happen. The locations directory now runs to dozens of entries, from Key Largo and Homestead to Orlando, Fort Myers and Port St. Lucie, plus a food truck and outposts at FIU's Frost Art Museum and the University of Miami. Several stores in Palm Beach County, including Boynton Beach and Palm Beach Gardens, are tagged as newly opened. Pompano is one of a handful still marked as coming, alongside sites in Dania Beach, Palm Springs, Hialeah Gardens, Little River, Cape Coral, West Melbourne and a Miami International Airport terminal.

What a Vicky shop actually serves

For anyone who has only had a Vicky pastry from a box at the office, the store pages for nearby locations show what the counter covers. The Las Olas and Boca Raton pages list pastelitos baked fresh every day, croquetas, bocaditos and sandwiches, cakes including custom ones for birthdays and weddings, and breakfast served all day, built around café con leche and toasted Cuban bread. The shops also sell Refresquitos, the company's line of cold drinks, and take online orders for pickup or delivery.

Catering is a big part of the business. Both store pages describe trays of pastelitos, croquetas, bocaditos and sandwiches for parties and office lunches, and that is likely where a Pompano shop will matter most: the Saturday birthday party, the Monday staff meeting, the family gathering where somebody is always assigned to bring the croquetas. Having that order a few minutes away instead of a drive to Las Olas or west Boca is a real change in routine.

Hours vary by store. The Las Olas shop, for example, opens at 6:30 in the morning six days a week and stays open late Thursday through Saturday, while the Boca store keeps a more traditional bakery schedule. Pompano's hours have not been posted, so check the location page before planning a first visit.

When it opens

Vicky Bakery has not announced an opening date for Pompano Beach. The location page was first published in late 2025 and was most recently updated in the spring of 2026, and it still carries the Baking Soon tag. The company typically posts new openings on its website and on its Instagram account, @vickybakery, which is the best place to watch for a grand opening day. The brand also runs limited promotions there, such as its recent anniversary countdown, so following along is worth it for anyone who plans to be in line on day one.

The site's homepage also points to how the company thinks about new stores: it describes the goal of bringing pastelitos to every neighborhood, and it actively franchises the brand. The company has not said who will operate the Pompano shop.

What it means for Pompano

Pompano Beach has plenty of good coffee and a growing list of places to eat along Federal Highway and in Old Town and the beach district. What it has not had is a Vicky, the name that a lot of South Floridians grew up with on Sunday mornings and at every office birthday. When the doors open at 1154 N. Federal, east Pompano gets a cafecito and a guava pastelito on the way to work, a cake counter for the next family party, and one less reason to drive south to Fort Lauderdale for a taste of Hialeah. Keep an eye on the location page, and plan the first catering order accordingly.