Big Bad Breakfast opened on Tuesday at 984 Barret Avenue, and the Courier Journal’s Dahlia Ghabour has the in-depth report.

Lard have mercy. This Southern breakfast restaurant chain is now open in Louisville

The Highlands space has been transformed, with fresh paint in bright yellow, teal and forest green, two dozen squishy teal swivel barstools and paintings of barn animals. One wall has a mural of Louisville celebrities, and another is made of garage doors that can slide up and lead to an outdoor patio. The restaurant even has 22 parking spots in addition to street parking nearby.

Praise the lard and pass the Mother of All Biscuits? Following are useful Big Bad Breakfast bullet points.

  • Big Bad Breakfast was founded 14 years ago in Mississippi by John Currence, a James Beard Award-winning chef
  • Kentucky is the northernmost point of the Big Bad Breakfast chain’s penetration, with other locations across Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee
  • The host building in Louisville is best remembered for the eclectic and original Lynn’s Paradise Cafe, but the most recent occupant was Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint
  • Big Bad Breakfast Louisville is “part of a partnership agreement with Endeavor Restaurant Group, which was founded in 2020 by former Papa Johns International CEO Steve Richie and his wife Melissa.” ERG also owns three iterations of LouVino Restaurant and Wine Bar
  • The Louisville Big Bad Breakfast is on Facebook, and you can see the menu here