Family-run — Louisville, KY

Open daily from 8 AM

Highlands ✳ St. Matthews

Highland Morning

The kind of place you're proud to take out-of-towners — a family-run brunch joint where the portions are big, the egos are small, and the gravy has a trophy.

Home of the Highland Not Brownaward-winning gravythe Leaning Tower of WafflesDreamsicle Pancakes

Lemon Lover's Dream Cakes — lemon pancakes with vanilla yogurt and blueberry compote

01 — The story

Watermelon-basil refresher over crushed ice
fresh-squeezed mornings

Where the portions are big, the egos are small, and last night is recalled over mouthwatering pancakes.

Highland Morning started with a simple idea: bring Louisville together, one breakfast at a time. Come as you are — bedhead, running shoes, Sunday best — and leave with a smile.

We're family-run, and it shows. When you care about the people you're cooking for, you taste it: biscuits made in-house, compotes from real fruit, and a sausage gravy that's taken home hardware at the Gravy Cup.

  • 02neighborhoods —
    Highlands & St. Matthews
  • 07mornings a week,
    from 8:00 AM
  • 01award-winning
    sausage gravy
A strawberry cut into a rose beside fresh blueberries
garnish, taken seriously

03 — The hardware

The gravy has a trophy.

Every year, Louisville hosts the Gravy Cup — the world's largest biscuits-and-gravy showdown. Highland Morning's sausage gravy has taken home the title, and we've been ladling it proudly ever since.

The classic

Biscuits 'n' Gravy

Legendary homemade biscuits smothered in our award-winning sausage gravy.

8.99

05 — Find us

Two doors. One good morning.

The original — Highlands

Bardstown Road

1416 Bardstown Rd
Louisville, KY 40204

Open daily from 8 AM

Mon – Fri8:00 AM – 2:30 PM
Sat – Sun8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

The sequel — St. Matthews

St. Matthews Ave

111 St. Matthews Ave
Louisville, KY 40207

Open daily from 8 AM

Mon – Fri8:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Sat – Sun8:00 AM – 3:00 PM

06 — Catering & groups

Bring the morning to them.

Office breakfasts, wedding-morning spreads, team brunches — we cater, and we host groups at both locations. Tell us the headcount; we'll bring the gravy.