Two California breakfast cafes have arrived, and one is already impressing Texans. Black Bear Diner, from the base of Mount Shasta in northern California, serves the kind of giant, hearty platters that give California a reputation for breakfast. Black Bear Diner chain locations now bookend Fort Worth. One is at 9501 North Freeway, near Heritage […]
A trendy cafe in Tokyo is offering customers a new treat – cuddling pigs. The Mipig Cafe in fashionable Harajuku is among 10 such pig cafes that have opened around Japan. The first one opened in Tokyo in 2019. Two more are in the works for later this year. The animals, known as “micro pigs”, […]
The Mena family is back. But instead of serving fettuccine Alfredo or tiramisu, this time Afrim and Sal Mena are serving chicken-fried steak and coconut cream pie. Twenty years after their family launched a legacy at Italian restaurants in Hurst and Keller, the Menas sold two Oklahoma restaurants and moved back to open Boulevard Cafe, […]
At least 39 people have died and nine others were injured after a fire broke out in a commercial building in south-eastern China. Officials in the Yushui district of Jiangxi province said the blaze broke out in the basement of a shopping area in the afternoon. Rescue workers, firefighters, police and local government officials were […]
Moraima Gonzalez, 48, moved from Puerto Rico with her husband and two of their four children to Florida in 2013 shortly after she was diagnosed with kidney failure. After spending several weeks on dialysis and being told from doctors in her home country that she needed a kidney transplant, she wanted a second opinion. Fortunately […]
West Side Cafe adds more desserts, pies Hey, Bud! I hear some things have changed at West Side Cafe. What do you know? —Benbrook reader I know the pie case is full of new desserts. There’s a distinctive blueberry pie — not too sweet — and also one of the most pecan-loaded pecan pies in […]
The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a deadly shooting that happened early Christmas morning. Deputies responded to a shooting call at Café Lungo located at 3626 Vineland Road in Kissimmee around 4:50 a.m. Monday. ▶ WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS When deputies arrived, they located the victim, Terrell Williams, with a gunshot wound. Williams […]
Dec. 24—It wasn’t a good Christmas for Murphy’s Cafe in 1923. Twice within a week, barrels of “high voltage beer” were seized from trucks making deliveries to the cafe that was located at 58 Public Square, Wilkes-Barre. Keep in mind, 1923 was the third year in the Prohibition Era, a ban on the production, transportation […]
Downtown Nampa has a new coffee shop. First and Second Coffee Co., owned by Rachel and Joshua Mast, opened Dec. 20 at 310 12th Ave. S. in the Nampa Historic District. “Nampa is often overlooked in terms of food and drink and, even if it’s a small contribution, we really hope to change that,” Rachel […]