Breakfast and coffee in Homewood: 18th Street, SoHo and Edgewood

Last checked 2026-10-17. Refreshed every three months.

Breakfast and coffee in Homewood cluster in three places: downtown on 18th Street South, with Salem’s Diner, O’Henry’s Coffees and Santos Coffee within a block of each other; SoHo, with Big Bad Breakfast, Herradura y Donas and Dawn Patrol; and Edgewood on Oxmoor Road, with Ruby Sunshine and Frothy Monkey. The rest are at Brookwood Village, near Wildwood and elsewhere on Oxmoor Road.

How we made this list. The places come from OpenStreetMap records inside Homewood’s city limits, the same data behind our local directory, checked against each place’s own website on Oct. 17, 2026. We added the O’Henry’s Coffees shop at Brookwood Village and Salem’s Diner, whose own sites give Homewood addresses. Homewood Bagel Company and Santos Coffee have no working website of their own; we kept them because each had a Jefferson County Department of Health inspection in 2026. We left out the Dunkin’ on Commons Drive, which is in Birmingham’s city limits, and the Einstein Bros. Bagels at Samford University, whose location page no longer loads. Doughnut shops are on our bakeries list. The list is alphabetical. It is not a ranking or a recommendation, and nobody paid to be on it. Run one of these places? Write to us to correct your entry.

The list

The places

Big Bad Breakfast in SoHo calls itself a Southern scratch diner. It serves breakfast, brunch and lunch seven days a week on two floors, and its site says the orange juice is squeezed fresh each day.

Dawn Patrol by Domestique Coffee on 27th Court South is the Homewood cafe of Domestique, a specialty coffee company that sells single-origin coffees and blends online and has a second shop on Sixth Avenue South in Birmingham. Its site also offers store pickup through a mobile app.

Dunkin’ at 505 Brookwood Blvd. is a location of the coffee and doughnut chain. Its location page did not load for us; the county last inspected it on Aug. 7, 2026.

Frothy Monkey in Edgewood is an all-day cafe and coffee roaster with a covered patio. It takes brunch reservations from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and its site says leashed pets are welcome outside.

Herradura y Donas in SoHo sells tacos, doughnuts and boba tea from 6 a.m.

Homewood Bagel Company is on Central Avenue downtown. Its web address points to a parked page, so we cannot give hours; the county inspected it on Aug. 17, 2026.

O’Henry’s Coffees is a coffee company with shops around the Birmingham area, two of them in Homewood: one downtown on 18th Street South and one at Brookwood Village. Both keep the same hours.

Ruby Sunshine in Edgewood serves Southern-inspired breakfast, lunch and brunch, with scratch-made biscuits, shrimp and grits, pancakes and brunch cocktails, according to its site.

Salem’s Diner on 18th Street South serves breakfast and lunch, closing at 1 p.m. Its site names a Philly omelet on the breakfast menu, and cheeseburgers, club sandwiches and Philly cheesesteaks for lunch.

Santos Coffee is at 2908 18th St. S. downtown. It has no working website; the county inspected it on July 2, 2026.

Seeds Coffee Co. on Oxmoor Road roasts small-batch coffee locally, sells subscriptions and supplies other cafes and offices, according to its site.

Starbucks on Lakeshore Parkway near Wildwood is a location of the national chain; its store page did not load for us.

More lists

• Brunch in Homewood
• Where to eat in Homewood: all the lists
• Bakeries
• Ice cream and desserts
• Restaurant inspection scores
• Our local directory

Frequently asked questions

Where can I get breakfast in Homewood?

Sit-down breakfast inside the city limits includes Big Bad Breakfast at 1926 29th Ave. S., Ruby Sunshine at 1017 Oxmoor Road, Salem’s Diner at 2913 18th St. S. and Frothy Monkey at 930 Oxmoor Road.

What coffee shops open earliest in Homewood?

O’Henry’s Coffees opens at 6 a.m. Monday to Saturday at both its 18th Street South and Brookwood Village shops, and Herradura y Donas in SoHo opens at 6 a.m. Monday to Saturday. Dawn Patrol and Salem’s Diner open at 6:30 a.m.

Which Homewood breakfast places are open on Sunday?

Big Bad Breakfast (7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.), Ruby Sunshine (7 a.m. to 3 p.m.), Frothy Monkey (7 a.m. to 8 p.m.), Dawn Patrol (8 a.m. to 2 p.m.) and both O’Henry’s Coffees shops (7 a.m. to 6 p.m.). Salem’s Diner and Herradura y Donas are closed Sunday.

Where can I get coffee in the afternoon in Homewood?

Frothy Monkey on Oxmoor Road is open to 8 p.m. daily, and O’Henry’s Coffees is open to 6 p.m. every day at both Homewood shops.