Breakfast News
New Lone Star Cafe to serve breakfast all day and lunch in busy Keller

Bacon avocado burger at Lone Star Cafe
A new restaurant serving breakfast and lunch is joining a brisk scene in north Fort Worth: Called Lone Star Cafe, it’s a family-owned restaurant opening in Keller at 1500 N. Main St., in the Center Stage mixed-use development, where it will open in mid-February.
Lone Star Cafe is from Phil Doko, a veteran restaurateur who also owns a Lone Star Cafe in Arlington near Lake Viridian which he opened in 2021.
Doko got his start in the restaurant industry 40 years ago, first learning to cook in Albania, Italy, then New York, before moving to Texas, where he opened his first place, Roma's Italian in Lancaster in 2000. Roma's Italian and Lone Star Cafe are both common restaurant names around Texas with multiple locations, but Doko says they're not related.
Lone Star is a classic breakfast and lunch spot, featuring waffles, crepes, burgers, and sandwiches.
Standout items include the Lone Star Benedict with spinach, tomato, and avocado on an English muffin topped with hollandaise sauce; and hippie hash, a layer of hash browns topped with sautéed onions, green pepper, tomatoes, mushrooms, and broccoli topped with choice of feta or cheddar cheese.
They also have crepes, yogurt parfaits, oatmeal, avocado toast, French toast topped with berries, granola, and yogurt. They also rotate new dishes in, and everything on the menu is under $20 — a little more reasonable than some of the many breakfast-and-lunch chains that have sprung up in the area in recent years.
"The good part here is that we're going to have all-day breakfast," Doko says. "A lot of restaurants in the area, most restaurants, they just do breakfast for two or three hours and then go to a lunch menu."
Doko has history in the area and loves the Keller area market. He's also opening a second restaurant right next door to Lone Star Cafe, returning to his roots with an Italian place called Italian Table.
"I used to own a restaurant in Keller on Golden Triangle and North Beach in 2008, and I got out in 2012 when construction was at Golden Triangle," he says. "I love Keller. Customers are very loyal. When this opened, I took the chance to come back here in the community."