Texas Chicken Fried Steak Day lands on a Monday this year, Oct. 26. There are good chicken fries all over Dallas, but if you want to mark the day properly, get on U.S. 377 and drive out to Stephenville. Jake & Dorothy’s Cafe has been frying them there for 78 years.
Jake and Dorothy Roach opened the place on June 12, 1948. They built a one-story masonry building at 406 E. Washington St. and named the café after themselves. It caught on fast, and by 1953 they had already added on to the building three times. The café is still in that same building today, and it has never stopped operating.
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