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"Hen Mother Cookhouse has long been an OTP brunch favorite for its oversized and flavor-packed breakfast plates. When the larger Alpharetta location opened in late 2024, it debuted a thorough beverage program featuring Peach Coffee Roasters drip coffee, brunch cocktails, and lattes featuring house-made syrups. Alongside the sips, you’ll find chef-owner Soraya Khoury’s signatures like impossibly fluffy brown butter buttermilk pancakes and seasonally changing avocado toast piled high with whatever she can source from local producers (summer’s peach variation is always a hit). While the weekday menu is enticing, the weekend offerings up the ante with fresh pastries (don’t skip the gargantuan cinnamon roll), quiche slices as big as your head, and an XXL chicken biscuit smothered in sambal chili sauce that lives up to its name. Naturally, these flavors draw long lines, especially on weekends, so be prepared to employ a little patience at this no-reservations spot." - Mike Jordan
