Biscuit Love comes to Birmingham

Biscuit Love

Rises in Birmingham

Husband-wife duo Karl and Sarah Worley began their biscuit business a little over 10 years ago as a food truck, serving breakfast favorites from their Airstream. After quickly earning a devoted following, the couple opened their first brick-and-mortar location in 2015 in Nashville. Their spilled-secret ingredient: love.

The restaurant’s motto is “Breakfast for Good,” and they aspire to create a welcoming atmosphere for local communities to enjoy madefrom-scratch breakfast (and lunch) with local ingredients, where the money goes to support employees and local farmers and nonprofits. As noted on their website: “Our hope is you find opportunities to sit across the table from someone who may not look, talk, think, or vote like you and still find common ground even if it’s over the simple, shared love of the biscuit. We believe in brunch for all. We believe a meal is more than just food. It’s an experience—an experience in community, joy, empathy, and love.”

The Birmingham Biscuit Love, owned and operated

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locally by Melanie Zarzaur, is located in Cahaba Heights at 4317 Dolly Ridge Road, Suite 101. It’s open daily 7 a.m. – 3 p.m. Magic City customers can expect the same great dishes that grace the Tennessee location menus, including fan faves such as the Bonuts—a five-piece basket of fried biscuit dough tossed in sugar, topped with lemon mascarpone, and served over blueberry compote; the East Nasty—a buttermilk biscuit topped with a fried boneless chicken thigh, aged Cheddar, and sausage gravy (plus optional egg); the B-Roll—a biscuit cinnamon roll topped with pecan sticky bun sauce and served with cream cheese icing; and Cherry on Top Oatmeal, a special oat blend made with oat milk, housemade tart cherry jam, and house granola. There are options for vegetarians (a tasty roasted veggie bowl, made even better with a side of grits and a brûléed grapefruit) and little ones (the pint-size menu includes an egg plate with choice of meat and a mini biscuit, French toast with homemade butter toffee syrup, and a grilled ham-and-cheese). Hearty appetites will appreciate the Hungry Hash Bowl of fried potatoes, sausage gravy, bacon, and eggs.

The drink menu is as inventive as the food. The housemade brown sugar lemonade comes with free refills, the OJ is fresh-squeezed, and imbibing adults can choose from a spicy bloody Mary, mimosa, Basic B-Llini, or prosecco.

For our taste-testing crew of three (two adults and one 6-year-old), we awarded the most creativity points to The Gertie, a buttermilk biscuit slathered with peanut butter frosting, bananas, and pretzel crunch served atop chocolate gravy. Biased or not, our all-around fave was The S.E.C., which starts with the same buttermilk biscuit base, sausage, a scrambled egg, and aged Cheddar. The bacon and sausage earned high marks from us, as well, and the stoneground grits were perfection. I grabbed a Brussels sprout salad to-go (highly recommend), and we can guarantee you’ll win employee of the month if you walk into the office with a take-home order of six buttermilk biscuits packed up with a signature jam (strawberry, blackberry-lemon, or peach). We’ll definitely be back soon (like, tomorrow!).

For more information, visit biscuitlove.com.