The Best Brunches In Louisville, Kentucky

Wild Eggs is one of the top go-to restaurants for breakfast in Louisville. With four locations in the city, it’s easy to see the local chain’s popularity. The restaurant offers chef-crafted cuisine at mid-range prices, making a chic, fine dining brunch accessible. Highlights of the menu include the sweet home apple bourbon crepes and, as the venue’s name would suggest, lots of egg dishes. These range from several varieties of eggs Benedict, omelettes, and specialties like the kelsey ‘KY’ brown, inspired by the famous Kentucky hot brown dish invented in Louisville.

Focusing on baking some of the best artisanal bread in Louisville, Blue Dog Bakery & Café’s Frankfort Avenue location is a warm, comfortable spot to enjoy freshly baked breads or other free-range, organic selections from their brunch menu. Catering to ethical and health conscious diners, Blue Dog offers poached free-range eggs, house-made granola, and a variety of gourmet meat selections to complement their freshly baked bread. Blue Dog also has a variety of beers on tap and an extensive wine list.

Goose Creek Diner offers a Sunday brunch buffet in its casual, colourful dining room. The buffet includes breakfast classics of eggs, sausage, bacon, and French toast as well as baby back ribs and cheesecakes for dessert. Reservations are recommended for this popular brunch. Everything on the menu, brunch and beyond, is inspired by Southern home cooking traditions making this an ideal location to sample Kentucky’s native cuisine. Goose Creek is also known for their high level of customer service, often complemented as much as the food. For Southern cuisine served with a generous helping of southern hospitality, look no further than this diner.

With two locations, one on Bardstown Road and the other on Frankfort Avenue, North End Café is convenient to downtown, as well as the Highlands. The menu is heavily local and organic, vegan and gluten-free friendly, aiming to prepare traditional Southern cuisine in a health conscious manner with its farm-to-table business model. A Louisville establishment for over 10 years now, North End Café has certainly succeeded in this mission. Brunch selections range from breakfast tacos to steak and eggs to meat and vegetarian omelettes. Most of the breakfast menu is served all day, so this is the perfect location for late brunchers.

Fusing Southern California and Southern cuisine, The Silver Dollar has concocted one of the most unusual brunch menus in Louisville. As its menu suggests, the restaurant is inspired by the experience and culture of American Midwesterners and Southerners who moved out West to California in search of work during the Great Depression of the 1930’s. Cornbread pancakes, fried oysters, chilli cheese hash brown and smoked chicken enfrijoladas all surprise and delight the taste buds. Wash down chef, Tyler Powell’s creations with a specialty cocktail from the bar. The Silver Dollar is best known for its extensive bourbon menu.