A second Big Bad Breakfast location is opening in Louisville. Here's when

Months after the first location of this Southern breakfast chain opened, a second is on the way.

Big Bad Breakfast, founded by James Beard Award-winning chef John Currence, will open a second Louisville location in the former Corbett's: An American Place building at 5050 Norton Healthcare Blvd. in the East End. The restaurant will open on Nov. 15.

The restaurant came to Louisville in partnership with Endeavor Restaurant Group, led by CEO and founder Steve Ritchie. The first Louisville Big Bad Breakfast opened in the Highlands in the former Lynn's Paradise Cafe spot in February.

Ritchie said when the former Corbett's location became available, he could not pass it up.

“It is fitting that our second location will be in an iconic property such as Corbett’s: An American Place,” Ritchie said in a news release. “Dean Corbett was a talented chef, successful restaurateur, and pioneer in the farm-to-table movement. It is because of folks like Lynne Winter and Dean that we have such a thriving culinary community.”

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Founded in Mississippi in 2008, Big Bad Breakfast is now a Southern breakfast chain with 10 locations across Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee.

“We included some of the same eclectic characteristics of the Big Bad Breakfast Barret Ave. location bringing this historic home to life with vibrant colors and playful design," Ritchie said in a release. "The beautifully covered front porch and the sprawling patio surrounded by 100-year-old maples and sweet bay magnolias are two of my favorite spots for dining. Dean Corbett left a lasting impression on the Louisville restaurant scene, and we hope to create many more memorable experiences over the coming years in this amazing space.”

Originally the old Von Allmen Dairy Farmhouse built in 1919, the building was placed on the National Registrar of Historic Places in 2007. The new interior features colorful walls, booth seating and a large bar area. The outdoor dining area features a spacious bar that leads to a covered porch and patio.

The Kentucky Big Bad Breakfast menu features a specially curated "Big Bad Hot Brown," made with black pepper buttermilk biscuits, white cheddar mornay, roasted turkey, tomatoes, and house-cured Tabasco brown sugar bacon ($14). There's also a new specialty item in honor of the late Dean Corbett called Deano's Scramble, featuring mushroom, scrambled eggs, bourbon-glazed onions, deep-fried oysters, truffle aioli, and sherry vinaigrette dressed arugula goat cheese crumbles.

The breakfast-and-lunch restaurant serves scratch-made biscuits, jellies, bacon, sausage and grits. There are biscuit sandwiches ($4.50-$12), "Eggs & such" plates ($11-$16), pancakes and waffles, skillets, omelets and more.

Big Bad specialty dishes include a breakfast crumble with a crumbled buttermilk biscuit, grits, tomato gravy, crumbled bacon, tomatoes, poached eggs and green onions ($11.50), a fried oyster scramble ($16), shrimp and grits ($14.50), huevos rancheros made with grits, chicken sausage, saucy black beans, crispy tortillas, cilantro, pico de gallo, two poached eggs, avocado and lime ($14), and a pecan cluster short stack of chocolate chip pancakes ($13.50.)

In a previous interview, Currence said while the company is a chain, he tries to make sure each location feels like it is part of its community.

"We really go out of our way to be the anti-chain chain, where the feel of the stores is individual, but the attention to the food and the service is 100% across all of them," Currence said. "As long as I get to be in charge, we'll spend some extra money on each store and continue to make it so the elements here are specific to Louisville."

Big Bad Breakfast will open for breakfast and lunch daily from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. For more information, visit BigBadBreakfast.com.

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Features reporter Dahlia Ghabour covers food, dining trends and restaurants in the Louisville area. Send tips on new places or story ideas to dghabour@courier-journal.com or follow on Twitter @dghabour. 

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