When Does Cracker Barrel Stop Serving Breakfast?

Sprawling front porches dotted with rocking chairs, unmistakable interiors featuring a fun country store and dining area, and a menu stocked with Southern comfort food. This is the essence of Cracker Barrel: A restaurant chain that has cultivated a very specific and homey restaurant experience. After its many years in business, some customers have even gone so far as to dub it one of the best casual dining chains.

Whether you're craving a hot meal or shopping for a friend's birthday gift, there are a few different reasons you might visit a Cracker Barrel. Despite its truly rich stock of merchandise featuring items like candy and games, perhaps one of the most popular reasons for a trip to the restaurant is for its hearty selection of breakfast items. Grandpa's Country Fried Breakfast, the Fresh Start Sampler, Wild Maine Blueberry Pancakes — just the names alone sound enticing. Missing the most important meal of the day is never to anyone's benefit, but what time is too late to grab some of Cracker Barrel's famous breakfast?

Before you figure out what time the chain serves breakfast, you might want a taste of what's on the menu. If you're struggling with what to order, you can start by taking a look at some of Cracker Barrel's most popular breakfast items. For convenience's sake, you can do this before you set foot inside their closest location to you by checking out the Cracker Barrel blog. And if you're looking for some parameters for what you want to order, the Cracker Barrel website lists its three most popular breakfast items.

Bringing up the rear with the bronze is Cracker Barrel's Old Timer's Breakfast, a homestyle plate featured first on most menus, this sampler consists of two eggs, grits, your choice of fried apples, or the hashbrown casserole, and your meat of choice. (There's also biscuits and gravy on the side.) After that, the second-most popular Cracker Barrel breakfast is the Grandma's Sampler Plate. This meal comes complete with two beloved buttermilk pancakes, eggs, a sampler of bacon, sausage, sugar cured or country ham, and a side of fried apples or the hashbrown casserole. 

Taking the number one spot on this list is Cracker Barrel's Momma's Pancake Breakfast, which, to no one's surprise, is also considered the most popular item on the Cracker Barrel menu, per the chain's website. Served with three buttermilk pancakes, two eggs, and a choice of bacon or sausage, this is about as classic as a breakfast can get. But when exactly are these Southern comforts available to order?

Unlike many other restaurants, breakfast at Cracker Barrel is served all day long. The specific hours of each location varies, but for most stores, they're open for business Sunday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., followed by Friday and Saturday from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. To figure out the exact hours for a store near you, you can always check the Cracker Barrel website.

While most other chains have a cut-off on their morning meals to prepare lunch, Cracker Barrel chooses to serve its popular breakfast selection from open to close. So if you're craving a trio of fluffy, buttered biscuits, some smoked sausage, and/or sugar-cured ham for dinner, you're far from out of luck — in fact, according to the popularity of Cracker Barrel among its patrons, you're in pretty good company (via YouGov). And if you're not feeling the dine-in experience, you could always try Doordash.