Mmmm … migas.
There are quite a few places in town to get a fantastic breakfast, including a plethora of spots to get a good Mexican food breakfast (Jefe, what is a plethora?). One of the newest places is Sergio's.
The Baylor campus area has a brand new option for soup, sandwiches, salad and froyo as of today.
Yazzi's Express Cafe & Frozen Yogurt quietly opened for business in the small shopping center at the corner of 5th and Bagby. Development manager Rusty Spindel told us Yazzi's plans to expand throughout the region to college campuses, but this is the first one.
Cafe Homestead and the Homestead Craft Fair will bracket Thanksgiving this year as Cafe Homestead announced its Thanksgiving Farm to Table Dinner this week.
As usual, the craft fair will follow Thanksgiving and be held November 23-25. But this year, Cafe Homestead will be serving up its take on Thanksgiving dinner beginning at 6 p.m. on the Saturday before Thanksgiving (Nov. 17).
A couple of weeks ago, we updated the progress of the new shopping center on Valley Mills Drive. Brad Brown from Smashburger told us that they could begin outfitting their building as soon as the beginning of February.
The other restaurant going into that new hot spot will be Mama Fu's and I've checked into that as well.
I'm pleased to be sitting in Lula Jane's this morning, eating a chocolate chip cookie, sipping on coffee and enjoying the company of a cross-section of friends.
Growing up in Waco and then coming back here to work at several different jobs has allowed me the pleasure of seeing friendly faces just about everywhere. Already, I've seen my friend Carole and a group of Waco Trib friends at Lula Jane's. That worked out well because I knew that's what this place was meant to be about and that's what I already planned to blog about today.
I'm writing from the road this week. Or more accurately, I'm squeezing in a little WacoFork work while attending a friend's wedding in St Andrews, Scotland. But before I left town, I had a chane to sneak preview the Dichotomy coffee bar opening this week at Croft Art Gallery.
Alina and Brett and company are excited to offer their coffee, which has gained widespread popularity through the Waco Downtown Farmers Market, on a daily basis. I honestly expected a small cart in the corner of the gallery, but instead the coffee bar that the gallery and Dichotomy have installed is impressive and very hip.
The new Cafe Cappuccino location in Hewitt opened this week to provide a great breakfast, brunch, and lunch option closer to home for folks living in Hewitt. No need to haul yourself all the way to the Bosque or downtown locations to get your pancake or breakfast burrito fix. Now it's just a short drive away.
WiseGuys founder Bill Nychay can't wait to debut his Chicago-style eatery in Waco.
Nychay has seen the WiseGuys brand take off in the Killeen area, attracting a loyal following at the three WiseGuys locations there. He said they come in the first time, sometimes expecting Chicago-style pizza, but return for the Italian beef, sandwiches and hot dogs. Nychay has even seen his hamburgers voted best in Killeen.
Here's what we know: Smashburger and Mama Fu's are coming to the new shopping center that's under construction on Valley Mills Drive diagonally across the Valley Mills-Wooded Acres intersection from McDonald's and Chipotle.
Here's what we've heard: According to Smashburger regional manager Brad Brown, the shell for the building that will be Smashburger is slated to be finished around February 1. If that's the case, it will probably take the company six to eight weeks to outfit the space and train its staff, putting the opening of the new burger restaurant possibly at the end of March or early April.
Earlier this year, Brown said he hoped to have a Waco restaurant open by the end of 2012. We've seen it before, though, that construction projects happen on their own time. Patience is a virtue. For the record, I'm excited about the arrival of Smashburger, whenever that will be.
Here's what we're still trying to figure out: I made a trip to a Mama Fu's in Georgetown this week, sort of a scouting mission. The staff there said the Mama Fu's rumor mill had the Waco restaurant's opening being moved up from December. Moved up? I asked, thinking certainly they had mixed up the verbiage, saying "moved up" when the meant "moved back." But the Mama Fu's staff member reasserted that he meant moved up and the restaurant could open in November.
Given my conversation with Brown, I again think that Mama Fu's opening has actually been moved back from December.
One more bite: We'll have more info on Mama Fu's, including a semi review of a my trip to the restaurant in Georgetown coming next week.
