WHITE SETTLEMENT

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.

Blackberry cheesecake at K & K Cafe in White Settlement, Texas, seen March 28, 2026. Blackberry cheesecake at K & K Cafe in White Settlement, Texas, seen March 28, 2026. Bud Kennedy bud@star-telegram.com

Breakfast with thick waffles or puffy omelets come with housemade 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.

Fried catfish with green beans and french fries is a Friday special at K & K Cafe in White Settlement, Texas, seen March 28, 2026. Fried catfish with green beans and french fries is a Friday special at K & K Cafe in White Settlement, Texas, seen March 28, 2026. Bud Kennedy bud@star-telegram.com

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.

The K & K Cafe in White Settlement, Texas, has a separate entrance from the roller skating rink next door, seen March 28, 2026. The K & K Cafe in White Settlement, Texas, has a separate entrance from the roller skating rink next door, seen March 28, 2026. Bud Kennedy bud@star-telegram.com K & K Cafe in White Settlement, Texas, serves breakfast and lunch next door to a 75-year-old roller skating rink. K & K Cafe in White Settlement, Texas, serves breakfast and lunch next door to a 75-year-old roller skating rink. Bud Kennedy bud@star-telegram.com The Star-Telegram featured the Silver Wheel Skating rink in White Settlement, Texas, in a 2002 story on nostalgic entertainment. The Star-Telegram featured the Silver Wheel Skating rink in White Settlement, Texas, in a 2002 story on nostalgic entertainment. Ralph Lauer Star-Telegram archive


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Bud Kennedy is celebrating his 40th year writing about restaurants in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He has written the “Eats Beat” dining column in print since 1985 and online since 1992 — that’s more than 3,000 columns about Texas cafes, barbecue, burgers and where to eat.
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