Brunch News

Hemingway Brunch pencils in magnificent breakfast & brunch for Coppell

These pancakes are nothing less than magnificent.

Hemingway Brunch

The town of Coppell is due to get a great new spot for brunch: Called Hemingway Brunch, it's opening at 140 W. Sandy Lake Rd. #140, in a former Sunny Street Cafe, where it will serve the three most important meals of the week: breakfast, lunch, and brunch.

Owner Rima Sejdini is a native of Michigan who moved to the Dallas area four years ago.

"I was born and raised in the restaurant business, and moved here to help my brother, who had opened a restaurant in Frisco," she says. "I loved it here and decided to stay."

Three years ago, she opened Townhouse Brunch in Colleyville, which has earned raves for its combination of classic and creative dishes, executed with precision and delivered with attentive service. Hemingway will be her second restaurant.

"It'll be similar to Townhouse Brunch, where we do it all — specialty pancakes, waffles, benedicts, and omelets," she says.

Pancake varieties include pineapple upside down, strawberry cheesecake, and the "cinnabomb" with cinnamon swirl and cream cheese glaze. Don't read any further if you're hungry.

There are five French toast options including apple pecan, the "Mr. Presley" with peanut butter & bananas, and a bourbon French toast topped with bourbon-glazed peaches.

Avocado toast comes with feta cheese and two poached eggs, and there's a famed hard-to-find Monte Cristo sandwich with ham, Swiss cheese, and blackberry sauce.

There's also lox & toast, biscuits & gravy, crepes, steel-cut oatmeal, chicken & waffles, breakfast bowls, a breakfast quesadilla stuffed with bacon & eggs, and migas, both regular and a vegan "vigas" version with seasoned tofu, jalapeno, tomato, onion, and house potatoes served with corn tortillas and salsa — "so you can make your own tacos," Sejdini says.

That's just breakfast. Lunch features generous salads, burgers, sandwiches, and sides.

"We also have a full liquor license, so that means mimosas, bloody marys, and espresso martinis," she says.

She chose Coppell both because of its accessibility to Townhouse in Colleyville but also because she liked the location, at the busy intersection of Sandy Lake and Denton Tap Road.

She hopes to open within the next few weeks. "I'm ready to go, if I can just hire a few more people — staffing is so hard right now," she says.

Lobster Roll News

Famous lobster sandwich shop rolls into Dallas near Victory Park

Mason's

Mason's Famous Lobster Rolls

A restaurant centered on lobster rolls is coming to Dallas: Called Mason’s Famous Lobster Rolls, it's a chain based in Maryland and will open its first location in Dallas in The Union building at 2301 N. Akard St. #260, near Victory Park in a space previously occupied by Creamistry, an ice cream chain.

Mason’s Famous Lobster Rolls was founded in 2014 by Dan Beck, a former restaurant seafood buyer who opened his first location in Anapolis, Maryland. He began franchising in 2016. Once Dallas is open, the chain will have 37 locations, mostly up and down the East Coast, although none actually in New England. There is, however, one in Austin which opened in 2021.

The menu is centered on lobster rolls with five varieties that include both Maine and Connecticut styles:

Maine lobster roll with mayo and lemon butter
Connecticut roll with butter
Lobster salad roll, in which lobster is tossed in mayo with diced celery
Lobster BLT roll, with bacon
Bar Harbor, which has more lobster including a lobster tail

They also do a variety of other seafood rolls such as a crab roll, a crab cake roll, and a shrimp roll — all of which are served in a New England-style hot dog bun whose opening is on top of the bun rather than on the side, providing a better vessel for whatever is ladled into the bun.

Prices range from $17 to $27.

Other menu items include New England clam chowder, lobster bisque, and lobster mac & cheese.

The concept comes to Dallas via franchisee Thu Bui who discovered the concept while visiting the location in Austin.

"Just over a year ago, I tasted my first Mason’s Famous Lobster Roll, and I knew that I needed to bring their freshness and quality back home to Dallas,” Bui says. “It was unlike anything I’d ever tried before with the Mason’s New England Split Top roll and the high-quality lobster. I am excited for the Dallas community to experience their own taste of Maine with all of our delicious menu items whether they’re a lobster lover or they’re trying it for the first time!”

The Dallas location will celebrate a grand opening on December 13 with various giveaways including the opportunity to win free lobster rolls for a year.

One might think that a restaurant chain dedicated entirely to lobster rolls would be a one-of-a-kind deal, but Mason's actually marks the second lobster-roll chain that has come to Dallas: In November, a chain from Phoenix called Angie's opened its first location in Plano.

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