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featured dining guide story Advertorial Feature By James Carlton | nWa DemoCrat-Gazette Come for pie, stay for breakfast 42 What's up! JaNuaRY 13 - 19, 2019 Village Inn features world-class breakfast, lunch, dinner and award-winning pies all day F or 80 years, Village Inn has been giving breakfast-for-dinner lovers an excuse to eat scratch-made buttermilk pancakes after the sun goes down. The first Village Inn Pancake House was opened in Denver, Colorado in 1958 by James Mola and Merton Anderson, and it became such a popular destination that they began franchising in 1961. Three decades of breakfast later, they acquired Poppin' Fresh Pies from Pillsbury and started making The Best Pie in America. A few years after that, they dropped the "Pancake House" from the name as they created a lunch and dinner menu to add to their stellar breakfast and pie options. Their pies are prize-winners, and are celebrated weekly with Free Pie Wednesday. Don't let the name fool you, Village Inn is a restaurant with a full menu and faithful regulars, but you can't sleep there. General Manager Carol Gray loves her regulars like family. "I worry when someone doesn't come in when they normally do. My employees notice, too" she said. She also loves seeing new faces because she knows some of them will become regulars. Open 6 a.m. to midnight every day of the week (24-hours on weekends in Fayetteville), Village Inn may become your new favorite spot. They serve all of their breakfast treasures all day: from Belgian waffles, French toast, crepes and made-from-scratch buttermilk pancakes to Eggs Benedict, Expert Skillets and Combo Platters like the make-your- own INN-credible V.I.B., and the Triple Play which fills you up for only $6.99. Gray, who has worked at the Fayetteville Village Inn for nearly 14 years, said her favorite thing on the menu is either the Breakfast Burrito or the Turkey Bacon Avocado Melt. "It's the wheat bread that makes it," she insisted.