At 7:30 on a Saturday morning, the lights are on at 5320 Wyndham Forest Drive. Turning Point opens there seven days a week. It serves breakfast, brunch and lunch with regional coffee and a seasonal menu, and it has a "Get In Line" button on its site so you can join the waitlist before leaving the house. It's the one sit-down breakfast restaurant on a Wyndham street, and every other morning option starts with a drive down to West Broad Street.
West Broad is where this fall's changes happened. One biscuit restaurant replaced another in the same building, and a coffee counter across from Short Pump Town Center closed. The total number of breakfast stops near Wyndham ended up about the same. What changed is the timing. The places that serve breakfast near Wyndham fall into two groups by when they open, and the new tenant keeps the early group serving later on weekends.
Shift One Starts Before Most Kitchens Are Awake
The first shift is everything open for breakfast between 6 and 7:30 a.m. Most of it closes by mid-afternoon. Here's how the morning fills in, earliest first.
| Opens | Place | Address | Closes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 a.m. daily | Einstein Bros. Bagels | 3320 Pump Road | 2 p.m. |
| 7 a.m. daily | First Watch | 11721 W. Broad St. | 2:30 p.m. |
| 7 a.m. daily | Rise Southern Biscuits & Righteous Chicken | Short Pump Corner, 11561 W. Broad St. | 2 p.m. |
| 7 a.m. daily | Foxtail Coffee | West Broad Village, 2240 Old Brick Road, Suite A1 | 7 p.m. |
| 7 a.m. Sat. and Sun. | Silver Diner | 10890 W. Broad St., near Innsbrook | 1 a.m. Sat., 11 p.m. Sun. |
| 7:30 a.m. daily | Turning Point | 5320 Wyndham Forest Drive | 2:30 p.m. |
| 7:30 a.m. daily | Biscuit Belly | 11657 W. Broad St. | 2 p.m. Mon.–Thu., 3 p.m. Fri.–Sun. |
Two of these places are coffee and bagel counters, and one is a diner that stays open late. The breakfast restaurants themselves are First Watch, Rise, Turning Point and Biscuit Belly, and all four close by 3 p.m. On the hours each one posts, Biscuit Belly is the only one of the four still serving at 2:45 on a Sunday.
The Building at 11657 W. Broad Changed Hands
Biscuit Belly took over a space that already served breakfast. Axios Richmond reported that Cracker Barrel, which owned Maple Street Biscuit Company, sold 35 of its roughly 50 Maple Street locations to the Kentucky-based chain in July and closed the rest. The Short Pump building at 11657 W. Broad St. was one of the two Richmond-area locations Biscuit Belly took over. The other is on Hull Street Road in Chesterfield.
The opening moved fast. Short Pump Now reported that the restaurant passed its Virginia Department of Health pre-opening inspection on Friday, Oct. 23, and that the chain's locations list showed Short Pump as open on Sunday, Nov. 1. By Nov. 3, Richmond BizSense was listing it among the bakery chains that had recently cut the ribbon on new spaces.
In a WRIC interview, the chain listed bonuts, gravy trains, loaded breakfast tots, fried green tomatoes, pancake corndogs and biscuits and gravy. Lauren Coulter, Biscuit Belly's "chief biscuit eater," told the station the company is "really focused on that high-touch, high-impact hospitality." Axios added that the chain serves daily brunch and daytime cocktails, plus large biscuit sandwiches with fillings like fried chicken, pimento cheese and brisket.
So W. Broad still has two places built around biscuits. Rise at Short Pump Corner opens at 7 a.m. and closes at 2 p.m. every day. Biscuit Belly opens half an hour later and stays open an extra hour Friday through Sunday. If your household wants biscuits, the time you leave the house decides which counter you end up at.
One Coffee Counter Fewer at Westgate
The other change this fall took a stop away. Richmond BizSense reported on Sept. 28 that the Starbucks at the Shoppes at Westgate, 11735 W. Broad St., across from Short Pump Town Center, was one of two Richmond-area stores in a round of 250 closures nationwide. A company spokesperson confirmed both local closures.
That closed address is a few numbers up the road from First Watch at 11721 W. Broad St. For a coffee-only stop before 8 a.m., the early options now are Foxtail Coffee in West Broad Village, open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily and also serving gelato, beer and wine, and Einstein Bros. on Pump Road, which opens at 6. Turning Point's regional coffee is the cup closest to Wyndham's own streets.
The Waitlist Is Part of the Drive
Because the four first-shift breakfast restaurants all close by 3 p.m., a weekend line can eat up a good share of the hours they're open. Two of them let you get in line from home. Turning Point's online waitlist is linked from its location page, and First Watch has an online waitlist on its Short Pump page.
That changes the math for a Wyndham household. Turning Point is in the neighborhood and First Watch is down on W. Broad. With both, you can join the list from the kitchen, time the drive to the wait, and walk in close to your turn. Biscuit Belly and Rise both have online ordering, which works for a weekday pickup when the dining room isn't the point.
Shift Two Opens When Shift One Is Halfway Done
The second group is the brunch kitchens. They open between 10 and 11 a.m. on weekends, which is roughly the midpoint of the first group's day. Most of them sit at or near Short Pump Town Center and along Pump Road.
- Firebirds Wood Fired Grill, Short Pump Town Center, 11800 W. Broad St.: weekend brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with brunch cocktails and a children's brunch menu.
- The Daily Kitchen & Bar, 12201 W. Broad St.: weekend brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a patio and takeout.
- Casa del Barco, Short Pump Town Center, 11800 W. Broad St., Suite 2516: weekend brunch menu starting at 11 a.m., in a restaurant that also has a rooftop bar.
- Tazza Kitchen Short Pump, 3332 Pump Road: weekend lunch and brunch from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with seasonal wood-fired cooking, pizzas, tacos and seafood.
The two groups overlap from about 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. After that, The Daily's brunch runs until 4 p.m. and stretches the weekend morning into the late afternoon. Here's the overall pattern. Before 10, you're choosing among the breakfast specialists. After 11, you're choosing among the brunch kitchens. Between 10 and 3, both groups are open.
A Saturday Laid Out by the Clock
Using the posted hours above, a Wyndham Saturday breaks down like this:
- 6 to 7 a.m. Einstein Bros. on Pump Road is the first counter open, with bagels and egg sandwiches.
- 7 a.m. First Watch, Rise, Foxtail and Silver Diner all open. Silver Diner is the westward pick near Innsbrook, and it's the only one in this list still open after dark.
- 7:30 a.m. Turning Point opens on Wyndham Forest Drive and Biscuit Belly opens on W. Broad. Joining Turning Point's online list before you leave is the shortest path to a table inside the neighborhood.
- 10 to 11 a.m. Firebirds, The Daily, Casa del Barco and Tazza Kitchen start brunch.
- 2 to 3 p.m. The breakfast group winds down. Rise and Einstein close at 2, First Watch and Turning Point at 2:30, and Biscuit Belly at 3 on Fridays through Sundays.
- 4 p.m. The Daily's brunch is the last one serving.
Hours can change with the seasons, so check each restaurant's own page before you head out. Turning Point's location page, for example, lists 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in its hours line.
At Option 1 Realty, we track the corner-by-corner changes around Wyndham, from which building turned into a biscuit kitchen to which coffee counter closed, because those details shape what a home here is like to live in. If you'd like to know how this part of Short Pump is affecting what your home is worth, start saving today and get your free market analysis.
