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Goldrush Cafe
FOOD IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD
Goldrush Cafe started as a doughnut shop before the owners expanded to other breakfast items.
BREAKFAST OUTPOST
GOLDRUSH CAFE IS STILL A FAMILY AFFAIR AFTER 40 YEARS
Besides breakfast, Goldrush serves burgers, daily specials and home-cooked entrees.
WHEN COMMUNITY MEMBERS ASK George Sanchez for a job sandwiches, alongside lasagna, burgers and other home-cooked at his restaurant, Goldrush Cafe, he points to his nephews and entrees. The menu incorporates a dash of Mexican flare with says, “If you marry one of these guys and become part of the enchiladas, tamales and homemade salsa. family, you’re in.” The most popular dish is the John Wayne, a layered meal
The Lakewood institution at 1913 Skillman St. has been in the with hash browns, a sunny-side-up egg and a choice of bacon, Sanchez family for 40 years. There are sausage or chorizo on a flour tortilla some employees who aren’t related, topped with salsa. but everyone is treated like family. “Everybody tries it and comes back Sanchez and his brothers worked at beloved Italian restaurant Pietro’s “Everyone has come back and helped us.” for it,” Sanchez says. Over the years, Goldrush Cafe has before opening Swanee doughnut built a loyal customer base that has shop in 1980. When they decided supported them during the pandemic. to change the name, they set up a When the restaurant struggled to ladder in front of the marquee and severed the E’s with a saw. get a Paycheck Protection Program loan, a regular who is a
The restaurant operated as Swan doughnuts for about six banker offered to take care of it. He processed the application months before the family converted it into a breakfast and in three days. lunch eatery. “We try to support local, and they’ve responded. Everyone
“My dad loved going to Wyoming, Colorado, California,” has come back and helped us,” Sanchez says. “We’re still working Sanchez says. “We’d go by old mining towns, and we’d have to twice as hard to make not even half of what we were before. pull over. I remember him saying, ‘I’ve got a great name for A 40-year run has been pretty good, but we’re not going to let the place.’ That was his passion — taking us on trips like that.” the pandemic kill us.”
Goldrush has remained one of the neighborhood’s favorite greasy spoons with breakfast staples like pancakes and bagel Goldrush Cafe, 214.823.6923, 1913 Skillman St.
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