A new Fort Worth-area cafe in an old roller rink is drawing crowds. Here’s why
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- K & K Cafe serves homestyle breakfast and lunch with baked goods.
- Brooke Duffey used family recipes to open a popular, compact neighborhood restaurant.
- Menu highlights include fried catfish, chicken-fried steak and standout desserts daily.
The Silver Wheel roller skating rink on Grants Lane dates back to the Cold War and the first flights of B-52 bombers.
But the restaurant next door is polished and new, and brings a sunny, fresh daily breakfast and lunch already popular far beyond the nearby Naval Air Station Fort Worth base and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics defense plant
K & K Cafe doesn’t look like an old home-cooking cafe. It’s bright, clean and well-lit, with a ceiling mural celebrating the hometown Brewer High School Bears.
Yet the cooking is like from your grandma’s house.
Breakfast with thick waffles or puffy omelets come with house-made fresh cinnamon rolls the size of a baseball, drizzled with icing.
The K & K lunch menu offers what you’d expect: chicken-fried steaks, chicken tenders and burgers, with daily lunch specials such as meat loaf or turkey and dressing.
Brooke Duffey, a Granbury Realtor, brought family recipes and some family members to live out her lifelong dream of owning a restaurant, she said in a casual conversation.
K & K — named for children — is already making an impression with the crowd that loves home-cooking places such as River Oaks Cafe and the larger and more elaborate West Side Cafe.
K & K is smaller than both. But it was full on two recent visits, including for an excellent fried catfish lunch with homestyle green beans, pintos and fresh-cut fries.
Lunches come with rolls or some of the best cornbread in a local cafe. Try some with the pintos.
And then there’s the dessert case.
So far, it’s been loaded with tres leches cake, carrot cake, chocolate pie and a hotel-quality blackberry cheesecake.
It’s all from the K & K baker’s kitchen. Dessert alone is worth a stop.
K & K is usually open weekdays and Saturdays at 6 a.m., Sundays at 8 a.m. It closes at 2 p.m.
On Easter, K & K will have special hours: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
The exact address is 7628 Corina Drive, but just look on Spur 341 along the Naval Air Station runway 1 mile north of Interstate 30; 682-255-5370.
This story was originally published March 30, 2026 at 4:27 AM.
