I never imagined I’d be one of the last people to eat breakfast at City Cafe.
I was there just last week to report on the Murfreesboro restaurant’s remarkable longevity. A generation-spanning fixture in the city’s town square, the Southern-style diner had existed in one form or another since 1900. Curious about what it meant to locals, I sat down for a ham-and-cheese omelette, two biscuits, and some conversation with folks gathered there every day.
That was the morning of Wednesday, January 22. That very evening, owners Teresa and Rollin Kellogg announced on Facebook that City Cafe would close the next day. Since they had already run out of breakfast provisions, they only had lunch service on January 23, then they shut the doors.
