CHUCK WAGON RESTAURANT – American

The Dade Western Center is long gone, but Chuck Wagon is still standing where it stood, feeding Kendall breakfast the way it has for decades. The kitchen is a griddle operation: sizzling skillets, fresh biscuits, bottomless coffee, eggs Benedict on English muffin halves, corned beef hash omelettes, pancakes with pecan or blueberry. Sandwiches run to a cowboy stack of eggs, ham, bacon, sausage and American cheese. Midday it shifts to barbecue baby back ribs, pot roast, steaks and daily soups. Service is warm and unpolished, the room unchanged. Locals treat it as a neighbourhood fixture rather than as a destination.

Cuisine: American

Price range: $