Best Breakfast/Brunch: The Flying Biscuit

Breakfast is known by many to be the most important meal of the day. Getting started with a nutritious, delicious meal is vital, but sometimes cooking is challenging. On the days when you are feeling lethargic, look no further than the Flying Biscuit Café.

The Flying Biscuit Café opened in Five Points in 2022 and has quickly become a staple breakfast and brunch restaurant. The brand has 25 restaurants throughout the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida and Texas. 

There is a wide variety of menu options, and it offers indoor and outdoor seating. The owners are happy that parking is readily available beside their storefront as well. 

The food at the Flying Biscuit Café is a fan favorite, but the atmosphere is what makes the restaurant special. With vibrant decorations and a welcoming staff, it is easy to feel at home here. 

Regular customer Christopher Burkett, USC’s executive director for student services, has only positive things to say about the restaurant. 

“I like the more intimate feel,” Burkett said. “I am really drawn to cordial customer service as well as those who take the opportunity to get to know customers.”

The Flying Biscuit Café is almost always packed on weekends but on weekdays, regular customers can further connect with restaurant employees.

Servers frequently talk to customers about local Gamecock news and get to know repeat customers. Burkett frequents the restaurant two to three times per week. When he is away for some time, he says that servers always enthusiastically greet him when he returns.

The restaurant is a community favorite, and the owners spend a lot of time giving back to the community. The Flying Biscuit Café is a partner of Gamecock Athletics, often providing breakfast to various sports teams throughout their seasons. This January, the restaurant’s owners, Kevin White and John Barth, were presented with the game ball at the women’s basketball game against Kentucky.

Barth has also partnered with the College of Education’s “Woo Woo Wagon,” a wagon that Burkett and his colleagues bring around their building to share snacks and spread joy with any faculty, staff and students that are around. The restaurant provided discounted biscuits for the wagon. 

The Flying Biscuit Café is a part of specific meal plans offered to students. They also employ several students as servers. Barth and White ensure that they are accessible to their customers inside and outside of the restaurant. 

“The owners make themselves available to the clientele, which is something I noticed immediately,” Burkett said. “They are present, visible out in the restaurant layout. They talk frequently with customers, which I like.”

Burkett's connection to the restaurant is beyond that of the traditional regular customer. He taught White while he studied for his master's program at a different institution. Both White and Burkett are still in the educational field. 

The Flying Biscuit Café is a great place to enjoy a meal with family or friends.

“It is really, really neat to see that everyone at work is a team to fulfill that breakfast niche for individuals who want it,” Burkett said.