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Keke’s Breakfast Café Arrives In Wellington With Tasty Menu Options Story by Chris Felker • Photos by Abner Pedraza
If having a filling breakfast is how you fuel your day, or if you’re a late riser and prefer brunch instead, there’s a new option in Wellington. Keke’s Breakfast Café, an all-Florida franchise based in Orlando, opened its 10th location recently in the Pointe at Wellington Green, featuring a tantalizing lineup of interesting takeoffs on breakfast classics and a lunch menu that is every bit as enticing. A trio of businessmen from the Northeast decided to take founding partners Kevin and Keith Mahen up on their franchise opportunity — and soon will open another Keke’s in Boynton Beach, too. The local outlet, owned by Ijmad Ali and Syed Hasan Ali, both from Pennsylvania but unrelated, and Virginia businessman Sy Zaidi, has been open since August. The space is quite large, at 5,000-plus square feet, and there’s plenty of light streaming in from the generous corner-space windowscape to read the extensive menuscape. Keke’s (so named for the founders, who are brothers) puts some love into its food offerings, its presentations and its décor. This is not a noisy neighborhood breakfast spot; the spacious, spotless booths that take up most of the room are comfortably divided by highrise wood-paneled walls topped with clear glass so that your breakfast conversations are not shared with your neighbors.
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However, you may want to share your portions with your fellow diners, because some dishes are more than you may be able to eat! The menu makes it easy to find exactly whatever it is that your stomach is growling for; there’s a full lineup of pancakes, French toast — both flavored and stuffed varieties — omelets, egg favorites and poached egg meals, plus a particularly delicious chicken breast omelets section featuring four different kinds: Italian, buffalo, barbecue and fajita. On the flip side of the menu, there’s a long list of lunch favorites, served after 10:30 a.m., ranging from burgers and paninis to salads and wraps. When our first items arrived, served up by smiling manager Jason Fischer, it was apparent that what the chain says about Keke’s staff being “dedicated to providing an outstanding breakfast” was certainly true. The portions were hearty, everything was as fresh as could be and the meals were presented in a pictureperfect fashion. The “breakfast salad” was a nice starter, a parfait of smooth and tasty yogurt, granola, fresh berries and honey — coolly delicious. We tried the Florida pancakes, hefty and fluffy, topped with crispy-fresh strawberries, blueberries and sliced banana, sprinkled with powdered sugar. It was a very tasty treat with a bit of maple syrup on top.
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