Big Bad Breakfast plans to open its second Birmingham-area restaurant in downtown Homewood later this summer, one of the owners said today.

The new Big Bad Breakfast will be at 1926 29th Ave. South, in the former Cathay Inn Restaurant location across the street from the Pastry Art Bake Shoppe. More recently, the space was home to Steep & Deep, a ski and scuba shop that closed last year.

"We love Homewood," Nick Pihakis, one of the founders of the Fresh Hospitality Group, told AL.com today. "We've had Little Donkey (restaurant) there for several years now. Homewood is a great area that has all of the attributes of an urban environment but more of a neighborhood, family feel to it."

Fresh Hospitality partnered with Oxford, Miss., chef John Currence to open Birmingham's first Big Bad Breakfast at 5361 U.S. 280 in June 2014.

Currence, a James Beard Award-winning chef, started the breakfast-and-lunch restaurant in Oxford in the summer of 2008.

In addition to Big Bad Breakfast and Little Donkey, Fresh Hospitality's other restaurant properties include Taziki's Mediterranean Cafe and Saigon Noodle House. Pihakis is also co-founder of the Jim 'N Nick's Bar-B-Q chain.

Demolition on the interior of the new Homewood Big Bad Breakfast is complete, and once construction begins, Pihakis said the restaurant could open by August.

With seating on two levels, the restaurant will accommodate about 125 guests. The driveway that runs along the side of the building will be enclosed to create a walkway, Pihakis said.

The Red Lion Lounge, which is on lower level on the back side of the building, will remain open, he added.

Fresh Hospitality wants to open at least two more Big Bad Breakfast locations in the Birmingham area, Pihakis said.

"We plan on opening several here," he said. "We've got areas picked out that we feel we're comfortable with. We're looking to put four or five in Birmingham."

The restaurant group already owns two buildings at 33rd Street and Third Avenue South in the Pepper Place area and is eyeing property in Riverchase, Pihakis said.

Also, Pihakis said, Fresh Hospitality is nearing completion of a second Saigon Noodle House, which should open in mid-May in the former Bottletree Cafe space at 3719 Third Ave. South.