Looking for Biscuitville vegetarian options? You can build a solid breakfast around the Egg Biscuit, grits, hashbrowns, and buttermilk pancakes, but you have to steer around a menu built on bacon, sausage, country ham, and fried chicken. I’ll walk you through what to order, which sides hide pork, and where Biscuitville’s own information runs out. Back on the homepage, you can see how we check every chain the same way.
A Quick Look at Biscuitville
Maurice Jennings, a former flour broker, opened two Mountainbrook Fresh Bread & Milk stores in Burlington, North Carolina, in 1966. He started selling pizza, and the shops became Pizzaville. When his family’s biscuit recipe outsold the pizza, Jennings opened the first biscuit-only Biscuitville in Danville, Virginia, in 1975. His son Burney took over as president and CEO in 1996 and now serves as executive chair. Maurice Jennings died in September 2020 at 86, WXII reported.
Biscuitville is still family-owned and private, and the company moved its headquarters to Greensboro, North Carolina, in 2007. All of its restaurants sit in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Wikipedia editors counted 82 locations in February 2024, and Biscuitville now says it runs more than 85. Kathie Niven has run the company as CEO since 2021. Since 1982, most stores have closed at 2 p.m., so plan on breakfast or an early lunch. USA Today readers voted Biscuitville the Best Fast Food Breakfast in 2023, 2024, and 2025.
Biscuitville Vegetarian Options: What to Order
The best Biscuitville vegetarian options are the Egg Biscuit, the Plain or Buttered Biscuit, grits, hashbrowns, and buttermilk pancakes. No item carries a vegetarian label, and Biscuitville publishes no ingredient list. I marked a row ✅ only when I found no animal ingredient in Biscuitville’s menu description or its Nutritionix data, last updated November 5, 2026. Every cheese item gets ⚠️ because Biscuitville doesn’t name its rennet.
| Menu Item | Vegetarian | Vegan |
|---|---|---|
| Egg Biscuit | ✅ Yes | ❌ No (egg) |
| Plain Biscuit | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Check (dough fat not published) |
| Buttered Biscuit | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Check (butter or margarine not stated) |
| Cheese Biscuit | ⚠️ Check (rennet not disclosed) | ❌ No (cheese) |
| Original-Style English Muffin | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Check (recipe not published) |
| Grits | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Check (added fat not stated) |
| Cheese Grits | ⚠️ Check (rennet not disclosed) | ❌ No (cheddar) |
| Hashbrown | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Check (frying oil not disclosed) |
| Country Fries | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Check (frying oil not disclosed) |
| Side of Peppers & Onions | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Check (cooking fat not stated) |
| Buttermilk Pancakes (single or 3-stack) | ✅ Yes | ❌ No (buttermilk, butter packets) |
| Blueberry Muffin | ✅ Yes | ❌ No (50 mg cholesterol points to egg or dairy) |
| Honey Bun (seasonal) | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Check (recipe not published) |
| Hashbrown Casserole | ❌ No (sausage gravy) | ❌ No |
| Loaded Country Fries | ❌ No (sausage gravy, bacon bits) | ❌ No |
| Sausage Gravy (any size) | ❌ No (pork sausage) | ❌ No |
| Sweet or Unsweet Tea, Lemonade, Strawberry Lemonade, Orange Juice, Classic Coffee | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Cold Brew Coffee & Cold Foam | ✅ Yes | ⚠️ Check (vanilla cold foam recipe not published) |
The Biscuit Window: Build a Meatless Biscuit
Biscuitville puts meat on every featured biscuit on its menu page. For the meatless builds, check the full nutrition list: the Egg Biscuit, the Cheese Biscuit, and the Plain Biscuit. Order one of them by name. Biscuitville bakes its biscuits from scratch and offers every menu biscuit as an English muffin sandwich too, and the Original-Style English Muffin lists 0 mg of cholesterol.
A Plain Biscuit at 0 mg of cholesterol is unlikely to hold much butter or lard. Don’t read too much into a zero, though. Even the buttermilk pancakes list 0 mg, so a small amount of dairy can round down to nothing. Ask your cashier about the dough fat if you avoid lard.
Skip any biscuit with ham, sausage, bacon, chicken, or fried steak in the name. On paper, the Sausage Gravy Biscuit sounds like a side order, but Biscuitville makes the gravy with crumbled local pork sausage. Biscuitville’s cooks also ladle that gravy onto the Hashbrown Casserole and the Loaded Country Fries, and those two sides catch vegetarians most often.
Sides and Sweets for Vegetarians at Biscuitville
You can order these sides as listed: Grits, Cheese Grits, Hashbrown, Country Fries, Side of Peppers & Onions, a Plain or Buttered Biscuit, and a single buttermilk pancake. Biscuitville slow-cooks its grits, never in a microwave. Country Fries are thick, seasoned wedges, and the Hashbrown is a crispy individual patty. Biscuitville doesn’t name its frying oil, and its cooks fry chicken and steak, so a shared fryer is possible.
If you want something sweet, pick the Blueberry Muffin or the seasonal Honey Bun. Biscuitville bakes the Honey Bun fresh, glazes it with vanilla icing, and serves it warm. Biscuitville lists the Honey Bun at 0 mg of cholesterol and the Blueberry Muffin at 50 mg, so the muffin almost certainly contains egg or dairy. Each pancake order comes with butter packets and syrup.
What’s Vegan at Biscuitville?
There’s no vegan menu at Biscuitville, and I couldn’t confirm any food item as vegan. Your likeliest picks are grits, the Hashbrown, Country Fries, the Side of Peppers & Onions, grape jelly, strawberry jam, black coffee, and the teas and lemonades. Check with your cashier on the cooking fat for each pick, because Biscuitville doesn’t publish its fats.
Biscuitville describes its platter biscuit as “served hot with butter,” yet the chain lists margarine among its condiments and the Buttered Biscuit at 0 mg of cholesterol. Ask which spread your store uses. Strict vegans will also skip the honey packets and the Honey Mustard, which Biscuitville makes with locally produced honey.
Special Dietary Requirements and Allergies
Biscuitville runs a Nutritionix portal with a special-diets filter and a full nutrition table. In an allergen notice, Biscuitville warns that many products contain or may touch milk, eggs, wheat, soybeans, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, and crustacean shellfish, and Biscuitville doesn’t guarantee against cross-contact. Biscuitville adds on its menu page that food may contain nuts and that its cooks may prepare eggs to order.
Biscuitville tracks allergens, not meat. Poultry, pork, and beef fat aren’t major allergens, so an item can pass an allergen filter and still carry animal fat. To spot items with animal products, I used the cholesterol column on the November 5, 2026, nutrition table.
- Sausage gravy: Biscuitville makes it with pork sausage and pours it on the Hashbrown Casserole and the Loaded Country Fries.
- Cheese: Biscuitville doesn’t say which rennet goes into its American or cheddar cheese.
- Frying oil: Biscuitville doesn’t name the oil, and its cooks fry chicken and steak.
- Honey: you’ll find honey on the Spicy Chicken & Honey biscuits, in the Honey Mustard, and in the honey packets.
- Seasonal items: Biscuitville stuffs the Loaded Omelet with bacon, country ham, and turkey sausage.
Tips for Vegetarians at Biscuitville
- Order the Egg Biscuit by name. Add a side of grits and a hashbrown, and you have a full plate.
- Pick Cheese Grits if you eat cheese of unknown rennet. Stick with plain Grits if you avoid animal rennet.
- Pass on the Hashbrown Casserole and the Loaded Country Fries, since Biscuitville builds both around sausage gravy.
- Ask your cashier whether the kitchen will build a Breakfast Platter without the meat. Every platter on the menu includes bacon, sausage, ham, or chicken, and Biscuitville doesn’t advertise a swap.
- Ask about the fryer before you order Country Fries or a Hashbrown if you avoid shared oil.
- Get to the window before 2 p.m., when most stores close.
- Use the Nutritionix special-diets filter to rule out eggs, milk, or wheat, then contact Biscuitville about anything the filter leaves open.
Conclusion
Biscuitville gives vegetarians a short, workable list: the Egg Biscuit, plain biscuits, grits, hashbrowns, and pancakes. Watch for sausage gravy, undisclosed cheese rennet, and a frying oil Biscuitville never names. For more Southern breakfast stops, read our guides to Bojangles, Cracker Barrel, and Waffle House. You can also browse the full guide to eating vegetarian and vegan at restaurants or the restaurant category.
Sources: the Biscuitville menu, the Biscuitville nutrition table, Wikipedia, the Biscuitville story page, and WXII.
