Kamal Hospitality Group, the family business behind House of Wings, held a grand opening for its newest concept in Historic Overtown this past Saturday, Oct 17. Tanya Jo\u2019s Cheesesteaks is a Philadelphia-inspired neighborhood restaurant named in honor of Tanya Jo, owner Siddiq Kancey\u2019s mother, who was born and raised in Philly. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe concept… is named after my mother, Tanya,\u201d said Kancey. \u201cShe grew up in Philadelphia. My grandparents still live there, and I spent a lot of time growing up there.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEverywhere you go in Philly, you can get a traditional cheesesteak,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd so, for us, we wanted to bring that traditional experience to Miami.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Siddiq Kancey is the owner and founder of Tanya Jo’s Cheesesteaks.<\/p>\n
(Elisabeth Campbell for The Miami Times)<\/p>\n
For 15 years, House of Wings has operated out of Overtown after relocating from Coconut Grove, where it was originally founded in 2002. According to Kancey, Kamal Hospitality Group sought new opportunities after the success of House of Wings to bring more businesses and provide more to the community \u201cthat has provided a lot to us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kancey identified a gap in the market for Philly cheesesteaks in the city after the traditional northeast sandwich had its big popularity \u201cboom\u201d within the last year, he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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Founded by Amani Kancey, Goodbread Laundry is named after Overtown’s historic Goodbread Alley.<\/p>\n
(Elisabeth Campbell for The Miami Times)<\/p>\n
\u201cI personally haven\u2019t had the most traditional Philly cheesesteak here in Miami yet,\u201d said Kancey. \u201cI feel like a lot of Philly cheesesteaks, they\u2019re fancy. They have wagyu and they have ribeye. They have the seeded roll, and the true neighborhood traditional Philly cheesesteak has none of that. It\u2019s very basic: beef, cheese, and at any shop, you kind of just add your own toppings. So that\u2019s what we try to do here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The sandwich shop is built to be approachable and energetic, and reflect the spirit of Miami locals \u2014 much like House of Wings down the street. \u00a0<\/p>\n
With roots from the Bahamas to Philadelphia, the family\u2019s contribution to Overtown doesn\u2019t only include the food business. Amani Kancey, Siddiq\u2019s sister, recently opened Goodbread Laundry on Third Avenue, the only laundromat currently located in the Overtown neighborhood.<\/p>\n
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Goodbread Laundry is the only laundromat in Overtown.<\/p>\n
(Elisabeth Campbell for The Miami Times)<\/p>\n
\u201cOvertown [is] a place that I would call home,\u201d said Amani. \u201cYou know, we\u2019re very close to the community. We\u2019ve always given back, provided jobs and done what we can as a family here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d say during the pandemic, I became interested in laundromats as just an essential service,\u201d she continued. \u201cI\u2019m a lawyer by training, but I knew that I wanted to do more with my time. I\u2019ve always just been very service oriented.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Amani, like Siddiq, also saw a gap in the market. She thought that bringing a laundromat to the community was an opportunity to do something different and \u201crefreshing\u201d with what was otherwise a dreaded chore. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI also wanted to really honor the history of Overtown,\u201d said Amani. \u201cThis used to be the Harlem of the South, and there was so much Black entrepreneurship, nightlife, music and entertainment. I was really inspired by that, so I knew that there was a lot of potential here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Tanya Jo’s features a patio with outdoor seating for customers who want to dine out.<\/p>\n
(Elisabeth Campbell for The Miami Times)<\/p>\n
The mid-century modern design honors that golden age of Overtown, with the hope of creating a home-like experience for those who choose to do their laundry at Goodbread. Even the name ties back to an important part of Overtown\u2019s history.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore [I-95], there was on Third Avenue and 14th Street an alley that the community called Goodbread Alley because there were a number of Bahamian families living there,\u201d said Amani. \u201cThe Bahamian women cooked bread, and it smelled like good bread, so they called it Goodbread Alley.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Musaddiq Muhammad, founder of House of Wings and father of Siddiq and Amani, recalled \u201creligiously\u201d going to the wash house with his grandmother every Saturday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI love to wash dishes and wash clothes as a man because innately that was in me: to clean, to cook and to do something [of] service,\u201d said Muhammad. \u201cSo now, when I see my children opening up businesses, it is these same principles that I taught in my house that gives them the wherewithal to come back and do exactly [what] they were taught, the same thing I was taught.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
For Muhammad, the Black community can \u201ccontrol our destination\u201d by reviving the things that have always made them successful. He emphasized that Black residents need to remain in their neighborhoods and fight against displacement, keeping Black ownership and excellence at the forefront of the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As a business owner and resident himself, Muhammad seeks to give back to the community that provided so much for him and his family. \u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Siddiq, family, community and entrepreneurship are the three core pillars of the family businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOur biggest goal is trying to provide as much as we can for the community,\u201d said Saddiq.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything comes back to Miami,\u201d said Muhammad.<\/p>\n
Find out more about the family\u2019s three businesses by visiting tanyajoscheesesteaks.com<\/a>, goodbreadlaundry.com<\/a> and houseofwingsmiami.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kamal Hospitality Group, the family business behind House of Wings, held a grand opening for its newest concept…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[170571,170581,170573,170578,152943,152946,170583,170577,170565,170576,225,227,226,115553,170582,170566,170579,170569,50752,170572,170575,170567,145592,170568,170570,170564,170574,170580],"class_list":["post-435564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-amani-kancey","tag-bahamian-heritage-and-black-entrepreneurship-in-overtown","tag-black-business-ownership","tag-black-entrepreneurs-revitalizing-miamis-overtown-neighborhood","tag-black-entrepreneurship","tag-black-owned-businesses-in-miami","tag-black-owned-restaurants-and-businesses-in-miami-dade-county","tag-family-owned-businesses-investing-in-historic-overtown","tag-goodbread-laundry","tag-goodbread-laundry-brings-laundromat-services-to-overtown","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-historic-overtown","tag-historic-overtown-business-growth-and-community-investment","tag-house-of-wings","tag-house-of-wings-expands-with-new-restaurant-concept","tag-kamal-hospitality-group","tag-miami-restaurants","tag-musaddiq-muhammad","tag-new-philadelphia-style-cheesesteak-restaurant-opens-in-overtown","tag-overtown-businesses","tag-overtown-community-development","tag-philadelphia-cheesesteak","tag-siddiq-kancey","tag-tanya-jos-cheesesteaks","tag-tanya-jos-cheesesteaks-grand-opening-in-miami","tag-traditional-philly-cheesesteaks-come-to-miami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}