Local Diner - Coppell , TX

The Local Diner of Coppell, located just off the corner of Sandy Lake Road and Denton Tap Road is a family style restaurant serving up a hot breakfast in a nostalgic 50's style diner. Quietly tucked into the suburban neighborhood of Coppell, it's breakfast is nothing short of comfort food at it's best! Reviewed by many other publications, including the Dallas Morning News, D Magazine, and the Dallas Observer the Local Diner has earned the opportunity for one more breakfast review!

Keeping things simple, as most diners do, Local Diner still manages to offer a bright, fun, and comfortable, restaurant that still offers counter service with a cozy feel. The menu is large and offers all the breakfast favorites, but is not limited to lunch and dinner.

Although the table was a bit small for the large spread of food sampled, it was delivered fast and piping hot! Sampling the classic core items, coffee, a buttermilk pancake, biscuits and gravy, corned beef hash, bacon, and hash browns was just enough to tell that this place knows breakfast. The coffee was a good mild breakfast blend, the corned beef hash was freshly ground, and the sourdough biscuit was great! The buttermilk pancake was anything but disappointing and the other breakfast staples were all prepared perfectly. There was nothing too special or creative about this breakfast, it was just simply a good breakfast!

Service was fast and friendly and the overall value was good, with large portions and quality cooking! And having the coffee carafe on the table helped make sure the joe never stopped flowing. Join their e-club and you get 20%, just for signing up, making it an ever better value. The restaurant itself was clean and comfortable. The decor was a little cheesy, but the 50's style diner is hard to replicate in any strip mall. Overall this is a good place for a hot breakfast if your in the area. They have another location in Irving that has not yet been reviewed by DFWbreakfast.com, but will certainly be on the list!

Old West Cafe - Denton, TX

Old West Cafe has a few locations around the Dallas Fort-Worth area, including the Denton location that recently was awarded Best of Denton 2012! Located just off the corner of Teasley and Dallas Drive, in a some what inconspicuous wood faced building, Old West has always been a good breakfast spot for myself when in the Denton area, but the recent award for Best Breakfast constituted a special visit and review of this small, local breakfast spot.

It is a pleasure to report that the Old West Menu, which expands across breakfast, lunch, and dinner has  continued to improve over the years. Updating their menu regularly, the have continued to offer a variety of breakfast choices and deliver fast and friendly service! Sampling several items during this recent visit was nothing less than awesome! Coffee was hot and fresh as you would expect. The big and fluffy buttermilk pancake, severed with peanut butter syrup was great. The Train Robber breakfast burrito was huge and delicious. The biscuits and gravy were offered with a choice of sausage or country gravy. The Tex-Mex Panhandler wasn't too spicy, but was
undoubtedly fresh and the tortillas were grilled perfectly. And last, but certainly not least was the amazing french toast, which was some of the best french toast ever, was crusted in cinnamon toast crunch cereal and to die for!

The service at Old West Cafe in Denton has always been fast and friendly, but just because they call them self "Old" and offer that small town, country cafe ambiance, it doesn't mean they aren't keeping up with the times. Their new table side ordering system makes service even faster! The servers use an Apple iTouch to key in your order as they take it and eliminate wasted time traveling to and from the kitchen. The cashier's have a pretty good setup now too, having you sign your credit card slip directly on the iPads they use as a cash register getting you in and out faster than before!

It is great to see the people of Denton know a good breakfast spot when they see one! It looks like Old West will also be a strong contender for the DFWBreakfast.com, Best Breakfast of 2013 award. The place is clean, comfortable, offering a good food, at a great value. Check it out and leave a post below about your visit!

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The Diner of Dallas- Formally Norma's Cafe

The Diner of Dallas is a long standing, well established cafe/diner. Although it was formally known as Norma's Cafe the owners, the people, and recipes remain virtually unchanged. Located in Farmer's Branch, just east of the Beltline & Webb Chapel intersection The Diner of Dallas is a great place for breakfast in the Addison, Carrollton, N. Dallas area!

The Diner of Dallas is not the most modern restaurant, but lives up to the quote painted on the side of the building, "Not good, just good cooking!"

Offering Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, The Diner of Dallas is an old fashion greasy spoon that delivers good, hot food at fair prices, with fast and sassy service. The old school jukebox and fortune telling weight scale helps add to the ambiance of this 50's style cafe. Used to film different TV shows such as, Walker Texas Ranger and ABC's What Would You Do, the Diner of Dallas is full of character!

The Diner of Dallas has a big menu, but breakfast is where it's at! Offering simple, classic breakfast plates including; bacon & eggs, buttermilk pancakes, corned beef hash, migas, eggs Benedict, and biscuits and gravy The Diner of Dallas does a great job of getting the food out hot and fresh! Portions are huge and fairly priced. Although quality is what you might expect at a greasy spoon, they do a good job serving up a satisfying breakfast!

The Diner of Dallas may not offer the most polished or professional service, but they are always friendly and fast! They also offer counter service, which is hard to find in this part of town, and helps make eating alone not so lonely. The decor and ambiance is very eclectic, others might say a bit junky, but none the less the restaurant is clean and comfortable.

Although this is a great place for breakfast, it may never make a "best of" list, but it is worth a visit! They have good reviews from other critics and customers, including the Dallas Morning News and Yelp!

Check out The Diner of Dallas and share your experience here in the comments section below!

Esperanza's Bakery Fort Worth, TX

Esperanza's Restaurant & Bakery is a family owned, local flavor which is undoubtedly popular and especially for their Tex- Mex style breakfast. As the sister restaurant to the famed Joe T. Garcia's, which is located just across the street in old town Fort Worth, Esperanza's Restaurant & Bakery is a Zagat rated and Trip Advisor favorite. With honorable mentions in Texas Monthly and by various other critics, this restaurant earned the opportunity to compete for DFW Breakfasts's Best Breakfast of 2012.

Located just off of North Main Street and Park Place Avenue, near the historic Stock Yards of Fort Worth, Esperanza's attracts tourist and locals serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and offers a full service bakery at the north entrance of the restaurant. Although sweet bakery breads are often a breakfast favorite, our focus was to experience breakfast on the full-service side of Esperanza's Restaurant.

Sampling the restaurant's "top items" on a couple of different occasions, the first breakfast selection to review at Esperanza's was their Migas (breakfast tacos) with Chorizo (Mexican sausage). This Tex-Mex favorite breakfast entree is prepared with eggs, white cheese, fried tortillas strips, shredded chicken, along with a mild red sauce, served with refried beans, Mexican style potatoes and flour tortillas. However this sample of the famed "house special" on our visits was poorly prepared with an unbalanced amount of corn strips, making it more of a nacho platter with eggs. The red sauce was also very mild and not exactly what a local would expect at an authentic restaurant such as Esperanza's. The tortillas served along with the Migas on the other hand were fresh, fluffy, and very tasty.


The Huevos Rancheros was also prepared with an unbalanced amount of ingredients. Prepared with two fried eggs on a toastada, topped with a ranchero sauce, this enteree was completely floating in ranchero sauce causing the tostada to become soggy and very disappointing overall.

Getting back to the basics of breakfast, their Buttermilk pancakes were not actually boosted as a specialty or house favorite, but as a breakfast favorite, it was sampled and following the trend of the other entrees, was not very spectacular. A bit over cooked and dry, the pancakes offered very little redemption for the Esperanza's breakfast.

The coffee however was a familiar Royal Cup brand and offered a mild arabica blend, perfect to compliment any breakfast.

The service during multiple visits to this restaurant has always been less than friendly and attentive. Although prices are very reasonable, portion sizes are large, and the restaurant itself provides an authentic ambiance, the overall value here is average, at best. Share your opinion here about what you think of Esperanza's. It may not make the DFW Breakfast, Best Breakfast of 2012, but Esperanza's has certainly become an icon in the Fort Worth area after 35 years and must be doing something right.

Poor Richards Cafe

Poor Richard's Cafe located in Plano, just at the southeast corner of 15th Street & Avenue K is a great place for a good old fashion, greasy spoon breakfast! The breakfast menu at Poor Richard's is simple and to the point.  Although you will not find any unique or creative dishes here, you will find a good, down home breakfast!

Poor Richard's restaurant is a simple place with little to expect, other than good food. The restaurant is large and has plenty of seating to let you get in and out quickly. The servers use hand held mobile computers at your table side to enter your order, so the kitchen gets the order instantly! This is great if you are in a hurry or just really hungry.

Sampling the fluffy buttermilk pancakes, biscuits with cream gravy, home fries, fresh eggs, juicy sausage, and crisp bacon was great. The large portions help compensate the simple homestyle presentation and make everything on the menu a good value.  It will be easy to leave Poor Richard's full without having an empty pocket.

The service is what you would expect at an old greasy spoon, but they will get you fed. Although there is nothing special or unique about Poor Richard's Cafe, it is a good place for a basic breakfast. They won't be making the DFW Best Breakfast 2012 List, but they will be earning a spot on the favorites list in Plano. Check them out and let us know what you think! Did you get full!?

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