Blond Giraffe Key Lime Pie Factory

opened in 1999 in key west famous for its key lime pies, it suddenly dawned on tania to use her brazilian grandmother’s recipe for key lime pies and started selling at their restaurant. at that time, they had a neighbor, a true conch (key west native) for generations, that would come everyday to buy their key lime pies and convinced tania and roberto that if there would ever be a contest, they should enter because they would win. months later, roberto was reading the local newspaper and noticed that a key lime pie contest was being held that day. they entered the contest at the last minute and won, 1st place for best key lime pie in key west, fl amongst 17 other contestants! there has been no contest since 1999. the next day, everyone came to the restaurant looking for key lime pies and that’s when they changed their restaurant concept to become “blond giraffe key lime pie factory.” blond giraffe’s key lime pies are made with sweetened condensed milk made from scratch, with a light mer