A decade after serving its first swirl of soft-serve, Charlie's Ice Cream — a family-run, walk-up shop on Hialeah Drive — is officially expanding. What began in 2015 as a neighborhood favorite tucked into a former Dairy Queen has grown into one of Miami's sweetest success stories, and now it's heading west.

Owner Charles Sauer, who has spent the past ten years building his brand one cone at a time, announced that a second Charlie's Ice Cream will debut this fall in Westchester, near the intersection of Coral Way and SW 97th Avenue. click to enlarge

"After 10 years of success and continuous growth at our current shop, and hearing all the time that people drive from all over to buy our ice cream, I figured it was time to expand," Sauer shared on Instagram . "I secured a great long-t

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