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Breakfast king Seven Mile Cafe cooks up new restaurant in Fort Worth

Seven Mile was doing breakfast before breakfast was a thing.

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UPDATE: Seven Mile Cafe opened on March 11 at 6300 North Fwy., Fort Worth.

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A beloved Denton-born breakfast chain continues its mini-expansion with a new location coming soon to Fort Worth.

Seven Mile Cafe, the healthy-ish restaurant noted for its grand breakfasts and vegan-friendly fare, will open a location in Far North Fort Worth, at 6300 North Fwy., in what was previously a Brick House Tavern location, which has been closed for more than a year.

Staffers hint that the restaurant may open in March, but owner Kevin Klingele is a little more reluctant to commit.

"We will be coming to North Fort Worth soon," he says. "I hate to be held to a date but we are working on it."

Kevin and his wife Josi founded Seven Mile Cafe in Denton in 2011. The couple moved here from San Francisco and named the restaurant after Seven Mile Beach in the Grand Cayman Islands, where they honeymooned.

They're known for fantastic breakfasts, with numerous benedicts and 10 kinds of pancakes, including their signature pancake sampler comes with three different flavored pancakes: buttermilk, blueberry, and red velvet. They also serve lunch and offer numerous vegan options.

All of that makes them pretty cutting-edge since bountiful breakfasts and vegan food have become two of the biggest trends in dining in recent years.

"Josi is vegan also and we make an enormous effort to offer a wide variety of vegan options on our menu," Kevin says.

The couple has since opened locations in Highland Village and more recently Keller, which opened in late 2016, as well as with a separate coffee shop in Denton.

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White Rock Cafe in North Richland Hills is a breakfast & lunch gem

White Rock Cafe

A family-owned cafe is serving Mexican eats and coffee in North Richland Hills: Called White Rock Cafe, it's located at 7640 NE Loop 820 #110, in North Hills Village, in a former event space called Eventfully Yours, where it opened in May.

Not to be confused with White Rock Coffee or White Rock Lake, White Rock Cafe is named after a location in Oaxaca, Mexico — Rosa Blanca — and the ancestral hometown of sisters Jenny and Stephanie Pantoja, who own the restaurant with their cousin Kevin Nazario.

"It's where my father grew up," Jenny says. But she and her sister and her cousin all grew up in NRH.

“We decided to open in North Richland Hills because even though we live on the edge of Fort Worth, we kind of grew up here and are familiar with the people," Jenny says. “That’s why we decided this would be the perfect community to open a breakfast place.”

Their menu ranges from Mexican breakfast to comfort food to burgers and chicken-fried steak. There are all your bacon-and-egg-and-pancake combos with choice of potatoes or grits, but there are also crepes, topped with berries, and a Mexican Benedict, featuring an English muffin topped with grilled red onions, green peppers, seasoned chorizo, poached eggs, avocado, and Hollandaise sauce.

They also have a coffee program including brewed coffee, espresso, white coffee, hot chocolate, and hot teas.

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Lunch has a homey home-cooking vibe, including a daily special with dishes like chicken fried steak and pot roast with two sides and Texas toast for only $8. There's a perfect California club with crisp bacon, red tomato slices, and fresh Romaine on toast, neatly trimmed, for $10; and that DFW classic combo of grilled cheese sandwich served with tomato-basil soup.

Prices are low, topping out at $14 for chilaquiles. They're open every day from 7 am-3 pm.

Jenny works in a surgery program most days when she’s not at the restaurant. She got her start working at a breakfast restaurant and grew to appreciate the hours and the culture, inspiring her and her family to open this breakfast cafe of their own.

It's a friendly, tidy place, with black vinyl booths and a lovely mural on the wall that summons the Mexican area for which it is named.

“My father used to work at a Cracker Barrel and other breakfast places, then he had the dream of opening his own place,” Jenny says. “That was the same for me too."

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