Breakfast deserves a better plan than stopping at the first giant pancake sign you pass. That doesn’t mean it needs to become a project. Pick the part of town that suits your morning, decide if you want a quick bakery order or a proper sit-down meal, and choose from there.
These eight places offer different versions of that first meal, from a bagel to a full brunch. Think of this as a menu for the morning rather than a ranking. Start with what you feel like eating. Menus change, so use the links before you leave if a particular order is the reason for the trip.
1. Blueberry’s Grill
For the Grande Dunes location, the visitor bureau lists 7931 North Kings Highway, number 140. The published menu description includes Blueberry Crème Brûlée French Toast, shrimp and grits and a crab cake Benedict. Start with the French toast if you’re deliberately making breakfast the sweet part of your day; choose from the savory options if you’d rather not.
The listing describes weekend seating through a walk-in waitlist, so don’t quietly turn a hopeful arrival time into a reservation in your head. Check the latest arrangement before traveling. Keep the next activity flexible if this meal is your priority, and be clear about which location you’ve chosen when meeting friends.
2. Johnny D’s Waffles and Benedicts
The red velvet waffle is the obvious menu item to investigate here: the restaurant describes cake-batter waffles with cream-cheese icing. The Cinnaroll waffle is another deliberately sweet direction. If you’re looking for plain breakfast rather than dessert-like breakfast, read past the headline items before making your choice.
The online menu has a location selector, so keep it set to the branch you intend to visit. That’s a small detail that matters when a restaurant has more than one address. For a group, let the sweet and savory eaters choose independently. Sharing a bite can be fun; forcing everyone into the same kind of breakfast usually isn’t.
3. Croissants Bistro & Bakery
Croissants lists 8014 North Kings Highway on its menu page. Its brunch choices include quiche, a croque madame and bananas Foster French toast. The quiche comes in two listed versions, including spinach, Swiss and mushroom. That’s a useful starting point if you want a bakery-oriented breakfast that isn’t only pastry and coffee.
Read the service details on the restaurant’s own site before setting out, especially if you’re planning a later meal. A brunch menu doesn’t automatically mean every dish is available all day. Decide how much time you want to sit and talk; this is a different kind of plan from grabbing a bag on the way to somewhere else.
4. Drift
Drift’s breakfast menu offers several Benedicts, including a duck version with spinach, caramelized onions and hollandaise on a croissant. There are simpler egg plates too. If you tend to order the same thing everywhere, this is a menu worth reading a little further before falling back on habit.
Choose one direction and let it be enough. You don’t need to add every tempting side to make a breakfast feel like an outing. Anyone with a food allergy should discuss ingredients and preparation with the restaurant rather than treating a short menu description as a guarantee. Keep the saved menu link handy so the group can choose before the hunger debate starts.
5. Benjamin’s Bakery & Cafe
Benjamin’s in Surfside describes bagels and housemade cream-cheese spreads alongside pastries and breakfast sandwiches. The menu lists an everything bagel, an asiago option and a bialy, among other choices. This is the place on the list to investigate if bread is the part of breakfast you care about most.
Choose a bagel or sandwich first, then see if you still want something from the pastry case. The bakery notes that availability can run out, so treat the published selection as a guide rather than a promise that every item will be waiting. For a takeaway breakfast, check your order before leaving and find a place to sit properly afterward.
6. Golden Egg Pancake House
Golden Egg’s menu gives you a broad diner-style choice: omelets, Benedicts and a breakfast burrito sit alongside biscuits with sausage gravy. The Barnyard is a more substantial idea, built around a biscuit, sausage, eggs and gravy. Read the whole description before ordering if you’re deciding how much breakfast you really want.
This is an option for a group that prefers familiar ingredients with room to customize. Ask about substitutions directly; a menu listing isn’t a guarantee that a kitchen can accommodate every request. If you want a simpler plate, there is no need to order the biggest named special just because it is the first thing you notice.
7. Tupelo Honey
The Myrtle Beach location is in The Market Common at 3042 Howard Avenue. Its official page links menus and reservations and identifies brunch as part of its Southern-food offering. It also notes a patio and nearby street and lot parking. Check the actual parking signs when you arrive rather than assuming all nearby spaces follow identical rules.
Consider this one if you’d like to organize the table in advance. Use the reservation tool for the date and party size you need, then check the menu attached to that location. A booked brunch can be a useful anchor for meeting friends when everyone is arriving from a different direction.
8. Tidal Creek Brewhouse
A brewhouse can belong on a morning list. Tidal Creek’s official site has separate breakfast and weekend brunch menus, as well as a coffee section. That makes it worth a look even if beer isn’t part of your plans. Follow the menu for the day you’re visiting rather than assuming the weekday and weekend choices match.
For a slow morning, make the coffee order part of the outing instead of something you drink while reorganizing the rest of the day. If you’re meeting someone who wants a full meal, check that the kitchen service you need is running. The name alone doesn’t tell you the breakfast schedule, and the schedule is the useful detail.
Make the first stop an easy one
Choose by location as well as menu. A tempting dish can be worth a deliberate drive, but there is no need to make a cross-town journey before you’ve even had coffee if a nearby option suits you. Save two possibilities in the same area, with one as a backup rather than a second compulsory meal.
Order for the morning you’re having. A bagel and coffee can be the right breakfast; so can a long sit-down brunch.
Prices and opening hours are intentionally left to the linked current menus and venue pages. That keeps this guide useful without pretending that a restaurant’s day-to-day details never change.
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Sources & details
Checked October 29, 2026. Confirm time-sensitive details directly before visiting.