What does scratch-made mean here?
It means the kitchen starts from ingredients, not from packages. The pancakes are made with real buttermilk and fresh blueberries. The hushpuppy batter is an original recipe built on blue cornmeal and blueberries. Every French toast in the house starts with challah. The Crab Cake Benedict is built on a house-made lump crab cake, the Blue Ridge Salmon is finished with a house-made blueberry maple reduction, and the burgers are half-pound Angus. Even the coffee holds the line: 100% Colombian, all day.
Cooked to order, not cooked ahead
Scratch-made is only half of it. The other half is timing. Your plate isn't started until you order it, which is why the eggs arrive the way you asked for them and the French toast comes off the grill hot instead of warmed back up. Cooking to order is slower to promise and better to eat, so we built the whole operation around it.
Doesn't cooked-to-order mean a long wait?
Not here, and that's by design. Darell Ariola, our Culinary Creative Consultant and Kitchen Lead at all three locations, built the kitchen systems around one goal: speed of service without sacrificing precision. Kitchen rhythm, team movement, and equipment planning all point at the same thing, a made-right plate that still gets to your table fast.
The same standard at all three locations
Blueberry's Grill runs one core menu across Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, and Wilmington. Same recipes, same scratch-made rule, same cooked-to-order timing. Daily specials vary by location, and the standard never does. Yelp named our North Myrtle Beach location to its Top 100 Brunch Spots in the U.S. in 2023 and 2024, and the kitchen there runs exactly like the other two. Gluten-friendly and lactose-friendly substitutions are available. Just tell your server what you need. Come for the 100% scratch-made brunch. We're open every day for breakfast, brunch, and lunch, and the first pour of Colombian coffee is waiting.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Every dish on the menu is prepared in-house and cooked to order at all three locations. That's the standard the whole kitchen is built on.
Yes. Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, and Wilmington share one core menu. Daily specials vary by location.
Gluten-friendly and lactose-friendly substitutions are available. Let your server know what works for you and they'll walk you through it.
Every location is open daily for breakfast, brunch, and lunch: 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Myrtle Beach, and 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. in North Myrtle Beach and Wilmington.
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