A popular Fort Worth restaurant is getting nudged out of its location: Beacon Cafe, the breakfast and lunch favorite located at 12721 US-287 in far northwest Fort Worth, has been given notice to move out — and fast.
According to a post from chef-owner Christie Murrell, the restaurant is losing its lease and must vacate he space in 45 days. The landlord was unavailable for comment.
Beacon Cafe is noted for its American breakfast and lunch, with the best burgers and omelets in town, plus classic home-cooking specials like chicken-fried steak, made with TLC by Murrell. The restaurant made CultureMap’s list of top 10 restaurants for breakfast in the 2022 Tastemaker Awards.
Their weekend brunch starts early and boasts omelet and pancake stations featuring pineapple upside-down pancakes, cinnamon rolls, and French toast bread pudding, plus fun specials such as peanut-butter-and-jelly crepes, served at very affordable prices. They’re also very customer-friendly; for example, in 2025, they stayed open for Labor Day.
“This is a really hard post to write, but we want to be honest with all of you who’ve become part of our family,” Murrell says. “We just found out that we’re losing our lease and have to move out of our current location in just 45 days. I’m not sure why my property management has decided not to give us enough time to properly move our business and I am devastated.”
Murrell says that, after surviving the pandemic and what has been a tough economy, the news hit especially hard.
“The truth is, we’ve been running on fumes just trying to hang on, pouring everything we have into keeping the doors open and our amazing team working,” she says.
Murrell put out a plea to the community to help find a new location, and many responded with suggestions.
“We want to keep this place, our little corner of good food and good people, alive in a new location, but we’re not sure we’ll have the funds to make that happen without the support of our community,” she says. “If you know of a potential space, have connections that could help, or just want to show your support by coming in to eat, spreading the word, or offering ideas, it would mean the world to us.”
The location on 287 was a second location for the cafe, which originally opened at Hicks Airfield in 2011. They left that space in 2020 over security issues; the airport didn’t want a security gate left open for customers.
Murrell says she will keep everyone posted about our last days here, before offering thanks “for sticking with us through every high and low.”