Miami is ranked the number two city in America for access to breakfast restaurants by LawnLove. Still, one of its most beloved AM establishments is facing closure because of a post-pandemic economic hangover.
It is a social institution with a box-shaped counter that seats 25 customers and a dozen booths.
And for the last 40 years, it has become a community meeting place, older than the Village of Pinecrest where it resides.
If Wagons West doesn’t raise $75,000 to cover new back-rent charges after a change in landlords to one of the world’s largest private equity real estate firms, then it will go out of business for good.