10 Grand Strand Breakfast Buffets Worth Getting Up For

An alarm clock is easier to forgive when shrimp gravy is involved. Along the Grand Strand, breakfast can mean pulled pork beside the grits, an omelet cooked while you wait, or Sunday gospel with another plate of Southern food.

The ten breakfast and brunch choices in Buffet Authority’s Myrtle Beach collection stretch from Little River to Pawleys Island. Some belong to the weekend; others make a daily breakfast appointment. One Little River buffet even gives late risers until 2 p.m. to get involved.

Check weekly and seasonal availability and the buffet cutoff before setting out; restaurant hours can run later, giving a leisurely arrival the potential for a small personal tragedy.

Country breakfast earns its weekend

At Back Home BBQ in Murrells Inlet, breakfast makes excellent use of a barbecue restaurant’s appetites. Pulled pork and country-fried steak join the morning spread, while shrimp gravy, grits and stewed tomatoes give it a coastal Southern character.

With biscuits and grits nearby, that shrimp gravy offers several respectable reasons to become interested in a second helping. Pancakes, French toast and homemade muffins cover the sweeter possibilities.

Timber surfaces and checked tablecloths suit this weekend breakfast: Saturday and Sunday, 7:30–10:30 a.m., at a posted adult price of $11.99. It is an early appointment, especially beside the later-running options farther north.

Mama Jean’s Restaurant in Little River gives the buffet weekend a Friday start. Its modest cafe and cafeteria-style line carry a family country-cooking tradition. The breakfast buffet runs Friday–Sunday, 7–10:45 a.m. Friday breakfast lets the weekend begin before it has quite earned the name.

Applewood House of Pancakes in the Pawleys Island corridor saves its buffet for Saturday and Sunday. A live omelet station joins at least 15 advertised options.

The diner crowd, and the glorious late start

Mammy’s Kitchen supplies downtown Myrtle Beach with booths, a compact breakfast line and a fruit bar. Corned beef hash, Western-style scrambled eggs and sausage gravy belong to its repertoire. The buffet runs daily during Mammy’s operating season, with winter breaks in the calendar.

For a later start, Sunny Side Up Grill in Little River keeps its daily buffet going from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Biscuits with sausage gravy and grits provide the foundation; pork chops appear alongside daily specials.

Pork chops at noon are an agreeable way to stop debating whether this still counts as breakfast. Sunny Side Up leaves that decision to your appetite, long after the earlier breakfast buffets have finished.

Golden Bites Brunchery, at 1610 South Kings Highway, adds blueberry pancakes, croissants and cheddar hash browns to its spread. Spindle-back chairs and dark booths give the room its own look.

Two familiar food bars, two specific Myrtle Beach stops

Shoney’s at 1805 North Kings Highway starts breakfast daily at 7 a.m. and directs diners to its all-you-care-to-eat Breakfast Bar. It gives the morning list another everyday option, including the weekdays when several country buffets take a breakfast break.

Golden Corral at 868 Oak Forest Lane publishes a branch breakfast menu with cooked-to-order eggs, corned beef hash and chipped beef gravy. Cinnamon rolls give the sweet side a hearing.

A cottage breakfast and a Sunday soundtrack

Sea Captain’s House occupies a Myrtle Beach cottage built in 1930, with dining rooms looking toward the Atlantic. Its $14.95 buffet includes prepared eggs and omelets with hot and cold selections.

The daily buffet runs 7–10:30 a.m.; specialty seafood omelets and Benedicts are separate menu orders. The Atlantic is considerable company for an omelet.

House of Blues Myrtle Beach at Barefoot Landing in North Myrtle Beach pairs an AYCE Southern buffet with live gospel. Folk art and Southern farm and tobacco-warehouse styling set the scene. This is the morning choice for a group that would like the meal to come with a performance.

Its brunch repertoire has included chicken and waffles, omelets, catfish and jambalaya; selections vary. Breakfast and a more substantial Southern meal share the plate comfortably here.

The Gospel Brunch advertises Sunday continuous seating, 9 a.m.–1 p.m., recommends reservations and posts an adult price of $42. An appetite can get you out of bed; Sunday gets to supply the soundtrack.