Big Bad Breakfast brings another morning option The huevos rancheros grit bowl brings South of the Border flavors to the table with pico de gallo, black beans and tortillas to accompany poached eggs and cheese grits. After Lynn’s Paradise Cafe closed abruptly in 2013, it left a vacant building and a crowd of nearby merchants crying over the loss of a neighborhood commercial anchor.
Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint filled the space for a couple of years, but soon became a victim of the pandemic.
It took another year for the latest occupant to fill the space again. Bad Breakfast looks like a good fit, though. Like Lynn’s, the new entry – first Kentucky franchise of a small but growing chain based in Oxford, Mississippi – offers hearty breakfast and lunch dishes in a down-home setting.
Llike Lynn’s at its peak, Big Bad Breakfast appears to be drawing a happy. noisy crowd that craves breakfast from morning through midday. It’s filling those seats in the face of plentiful competition, too.
After all, Louisville loves breakfast, and probably always has. We’ve got dozens of eateries that focus on the morning meal. You want breakfast? We’ve got breakfast. You’ve probably got your favorites … me too! But there’s always room for more, and Big Bad Breakfast nicely fills the space that once was Lynn’s.
The wacky decor, ugly lamps and offbeat antiques that gave Lynn’s its charateristic personality are gone, replaced by a generic faux-Southern look with funny slogans, folk-art drawings of farm animals, and a wall-size mural of Louisville celebrities posed in a black-and-white parody of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The chain’s founder, chef and cookbook author John Currence, who grew up and earned his cooking spurs in New Orleans, won the James Beard Award for Best Chef South in 2009 at his City Grocery in Oxford. He founded Big Bad Breakfast (let’s call it BBB) there in 2010, and the chain has expanded slowly across five Southern states. Louisville’s outpost opened in February as the chain’s tenth property.
We stopped by for lunch the other day and enjoyed a bountiful meal and first-rate service in a clean, bright, and happily noisy scene. ...
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http://www.leoweekly.com/category/food-drink/Big Bad Breakfast 984 Barret Ave.
289-8227
https://bigbadbreakfast.com/locations/louisvillehttps://facebook.com/bigbadbreakfastlouisvilleNoise Level: Conversation was possible but sometimes challenging as crowd noise, bolstered by background music, recorded an average of 75dB (the level of music on your stereo) with peaks to 82.2dB (the range of a garbage disposal).
Accessibility: The entrance from the parking lot is up two steps, but wheelchair users can gain full access through doors on the Barret Avenue side.