Continental Bakery ★ 4.8
Continental Bakery in English Village Mountain Brook is Carole Griffin's 1984 European bakery with pastries, sandwiches and Chez Lulu next door.
Buttermilk biscuit and sausage gravy is split flaky biscuits topped with cream-based pork sausage gravy, the canonical Southern breakfast plate.
Biscuits and gravy have been Southern breakfast canon since the 1800s when settler-era cooks used pork drippings and milk to stretch a meal. Big Bad Breakfast (John Currence, Oxford Mississippi) opened the Birmingham branch on Highway 280 with the canonical Conecuh sausage gravy and buttermilk biscuit, and it remains the Birmingham brunch-counter signature alongside the meat-and-three Sunday plate at Yo' Mama's.
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Yo' Mama's ★ 4.4
Yo' Mama's on 4th Avenue North in downtown Birmingham runs a soul-food kitchen with a deep gluten-free menu and Saturday brunch service twice a month.
OrderChicken and waffles, Smothered pork chop, Banana pudding
Big Bad Breakfast ★ 4.3
Big Bad Breakfast on Highway 280 is John Currence's Birmingham branch of the Oxford-Mississippi original, with Conecuh-sausage gravy and weekend brunch lines.
OrderPork chop and eggs, Conecuh sausage gravy, Pancake stack
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