Akron Life August 2022

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by Alexandra Sobczak photos by Lindsey Nickolich

Shine Here Get next-level breakfast and brunch at Sunrise Social.

T he Sunrise Social dining room is eye catchingly bright, adorned with yellow chairs, color-blocked walls, a black-and white counter and greenery hanging overhead. But the breakfast and brunch spot, which

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opened in May, is much more than its trendy interior.

Co-owners Lisa Houck and Jeannie Hopkins, who also work at Lala’s in the Lakes, envisioned a cafe that focuses on quality food and locally sourced ingredients. They delivered with made-to-order dishes that include cage-free eggs from McConnell Meats in Oberlin, sausage from Holiday Italian Sausage Co. in Cleveland, Cleveland

Choose from breakfast basics like pancakes and omelets or from more specialized options like a salmon and capers topped bagel meal ($16.99) or chicken and waffles ($17.99) with Sriracha maple syrup. “It’s cage-free chicken with some country gravy on it, with a feisty all-natural maple syrup,” Houck says. Expect some twists on stan dard dishes too, like the avo cado benny ($10.99), which has poached cage-free eggs

and seasoned avocado on an English muffin. “Instead of just doing the hollandaise sauce, we do a jalapeno crema on it as well,” Houck says. “People really like that.” Another popular pick is the coconut milk chia pud ding bowl ($12.99), a dish that Houck first had in Costa Rica. It combines house-made granola, honey, semisweet chocolate, peanut butter and berries.

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