Homestyle country breakfast fans, start your engines.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store could be opening the West Coast's first restaurant in Tualatin's Nyberg Rivers shopping center as early as late summer, The Times reported.

The Southern-themed restaurant submitted an architectural review and land use application for a 10,112-square-foot restaurant and porch in October. The application has since been deemed complete and awaits an administrative decision, Tualatin planning manager Aquilla Hurd-Ravich told The Times.

The Tennessee-based company was also looking into a Beaverton location off Southwest Canyon Road near Highway 217, but ultimately the Beaverton Planning Commission voted to deny the application.

"There is a level of ... excitement for the company because this will be our first location this far west," Janella Escobar, a spokeswoman for Cracker Barrel, told The Times. "We are definitely excited about it."

If approved, the Tualatin Cracker Barrel would be the first restaurant the company has opened on the West Coast. The closest current location is outside of Boise.

More to come.

-- Samantha Bakall

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