Among Bushwick’s 2014 mourned closures was The Salad Wheel, a former healthy joint on 9 Jefferson Street. Needless to say, one of the investors, Karla Muniz, was directly impacted by the closing but took on a very Buddhist approach: where one door closes, another opens. Rather than view the closure as a failure, she decided to work on her dream of opening her own taqueria named after her mother. The landlord of the building got to know Karla while Salad Wheel was open, and offered up the space to her.
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