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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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Calif pizza chain proud of its curly pepperoni opens in Mansfield

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A California-based chain known for its mountain-sized pizzas is now open in Mansfield: Mountain Mike’s Pizza has opened a locaion at 1670 E Broad St., at the corner of US 287, an extremely buzzy location which is also home to an H-E-B supermarket that opened there in June.

Mountain Mike's was founded in Palo Alto, and is growing quickly with more than 250 locations across California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Washington, Wisconsin, and Texas including eight in the DFW area and two in Houston.

Their signature is their "legendary crispy curly pepperoni," where the pepperoni slices curve up into little cups. This is accomplished by enclosing the pepperoni in a collagen casing which causes it to shrink in the oven into little cups.

Varieties include an all-meat, a vegetarian olive & mushroom, and a garlic combo, with mushroom, olives, & pepperoni. Other varieties include a bacon pizza, a chicken club pizza, and a garlic chicken pizza.

Non-pizza items include wings in a variety of flavors, both boneless and bone-in, plus salads, mozzarella sticks, crinkle-cut wedge potato fries, desserts, beer, and wine.

The chain made its Texas debut in 2022, opening locations in Lewisville, Grand Prairie, Saginaw, which opened in May, and Melissa, which opened in August.

The Mansfield location is from Dallas-Fort Worth residents (and Mountain Mike’s Pizza multi-unit franchisees) Ramein Gerami and Min Chang. The locatoin boasts a family-friendly atmosphere plus six big-screen TVs for sports events.

The location also includes an all-you-can-eat pizza and salad bar, weekday lunch buffet, kids’ arcade area, plus craft beer and wine and complimentary Wi-Fi.

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