Sanguich de Miami, the Cuban sandwich shop that's earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand nod five years running, is plotting a new location in Doral as part of a broader expansion push across Miami-Dade County. A Florida corporate filing shows that Sanguich Doral LLC was formed in March 2026 as a separate business entity for the planned operation, though no specific opening date has been publicly confirmed.
The Doral news comes from WhatNow, which reports that Sanguich has several new locations in development and discussed four of them during an episode of A Day In Miami, including planned spots in Miami Lakes, Dadeland, and Wynwood alongside Doral. The chain was founded in 2017 by husband-and-wife team Daniel Figueredo and Rosa Romero, according to the outlet's reporting.
Doral makes plenty of sense as a landing spot. U.S. Census Bureau data cited by ReloMaps shows the city is majority Hispanic, with more than 85% of its roughly 76,000 residents identifying as Hispanic or Latino — one of the highest concentrations of foreign-born and Hispanic residents anywhere in Miami-Dade County. For a brand built entirely around traditional Cuban sandwich culture, that's about as favorable a demographic match as South Florida offers.
From Shipping Container to Countywide Brand
Sanguich's origin story is central to its appeal. The business began in Miami in 2017 as a temporary shipping container pop-up on Little Havana's Calle Ocho, the historic center of Miami's Cuban community, before the founders opened a permanent storefront down the street at 2057 SW 8th Street, according to Time Out. Neither founder came from the restaurant industry — per entity background from Ambassador Foods, Figueredo previously worked in luxury brand design and supply chain consulting, while Romero spent nearly 20 years as a legal professional.
That corporate and design discipline shows up in the food itself. The same background notes that Figueredo applied his design engineering experience to create the custom sandwich presses now used across Sanguich locations. The menu centers on Cubanos, pan con lechón, pan con croqueta, and pan con bistec sandwiches, plus croquettes, fries, empanadas, desserts, Cuban coffee, and batidos, per WhatNow's reporting.
Scratch-Made Standards Behind the Scenes
Keeping that menu consistent across a growing footprint takes serious infrastructure. Sanguich's culinary model requires pork butt to be marinated for seven days in garlic and spices, jamón cured in-house from single-farm pork, and sandwiches pressed using rendered pork lard — labor-intensive methods detailed by the Ambassador Foods entity background that set the chain apart from standard fast-casual sandwich shops. To support that level of scratch preparation across multiple outposts, the company built a 7,000-square-foot central production commissary in Little Haiti equipped with custom machinery and patented sandwich presses.
Today the company operates locations in Little Havana, Little Haiti, Coral Gables, Bayside Marketplace, and Aventura Mall, according to its company website as cited by WhatNow. The Coral Gables flagship sits at The Plaza on Palermo Avenue, a 2,100-square-foot restaurant with seating for 75 guests and what Time Out described as the city's largest walk-up ventanita window when it opened in June 2024. The Aventura outpost operates inside Aventura Mall, capturing high-volume retail and tourist foot traffic alongside the earlier Bayside Marketplace location that opened in September 2024, according to World Red Eye.
Wynwood Lease Signals Urban Push
The Doral plans follow a flurry of real estate moves. In March 2026, Sanguich signed a 10-year lease for a 1,350-square-foot space at Wynwood Plaza, joining a mixed-use residential and commercial development anchored by Amazon in Midtown/Wynwood, according to Axios Miami. Hoodline previously reported that lease as part of a broader regional food and beverage leasing trend, noting Sanguich alongside other high-profile dining concepts expanding into mixed-use developments across Miami-Dade County.
Between the Michelin recognition, the scratch-made production system, and now a fifth or sixth storefront on the way, Sanguich's trajectory looks less like a neighborhood sandwich stand and more like a true regional operator. Whether Doral gets its ventanita before Miami Lakes or Dadeland remains to be seen, but the Sanguich Doral LLC filing suggests the company is already laying legal groundwork for whatever comes next.
