The History of Our Properties

First Flight | Bagatelle | Nine One Five + Point 5

map of all three of our restaurants, located within blocks of each other in downtown Key West, Florida. Bagatelle, First Flight Restaurant and Brewery, and Nine One Five and Point 5, upstairs.

The city of Key West contains the largest number of wooden homes per capita, featuring homes built by craftsmen and ship builders. Each one of our properties possesses its own unique history. Learn more below!

First Flight Restaurant & Brewery

Cy Caldwell sitting on the plane La Nina before making the first flight from Key West to Havana for Pan American Airways on October 19, 1927. Monroe County Library Collection.

First Flight Island Restaurant & Brewery is well known for being the birthplace of Pan American World Airways, Pan-Am’s first tickets were sold out of this very building in 1927. Pan Am was the principal and largest international air carriers in the United States from 1927 until its collapse on December 4, 1991.

Founded in 1927 as a scheduled air mail and passenger service operating between Key West, Florida and Havana, Cuba, the airline became a major company credited with many innovations that shaped the international airline industry, including the widespread use of jet aircraft, jumbo jets and computerized reservation systems.

Bagatelle

Bagatelle Island Restaurant is located at 115 Duval Street, close to Mallory Square, in downtown Key West, Florida. Bagatelle is situated in a historic, architecturally-beautiful building, built in the 1800s, that was converted into a restaurant in 1979.

Nine One Five + Point 5

The house at 915 Duval Street C 1970. From the Ida Woodward Barron Collection. Florida Keys Public Libraries.

Nine One Five is historic and victorian, a classic Key West home on the surface, but just under that cool, beautiful exterior, 915 rocks with a vibrant, modern and fresh excitement!