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Michigan’s Best Local Eats: Variety is key at Ann Arbor’s Stray Hen Café breakfast, lunch options

August 20, 2022

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ANN ARBOR, MI — Stray Hen Cafe has been serving breakfast and lunch to the Ann Arbor neighborhood for little greater than a 12 months now.

Ann Arbor was “the proper match” for the restaurant, Co-owner Chris Fronimos mentioned, after looking completely different areas for an additional location so as to add to its unique location in Elmhurst, Illinois in 2016.

Stray Hen Cafe, which opened in Ann Arbor in 2021, provides a wide range of breakfast and lunch gadgets, together with gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan choices.

“We’re making an attempt to make everybody really feel like there’s one thing there for them,” Fronimos mentioned.

Menu choices embrace The Different Facet scrambler and the Veggie Wrap.

The scrambler is eggless and is as a substitute made with seasoned tofu, black beans, purple onions, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, spinach and Chihuahua cheese, whereas the Veggie Wrap is made with yellow squash, roasted purple pepper, purple onion, spinach, goat cheese and sundried tomato unfold on a spinach tortilla.

Regardless of these dishes, Fronimos mentioned Stray Hen continues to be working to grasp gluten-free and vegan choices for its candy menu gadgets.

“I believe anybody could make a gluten-free pancake — I believe that’s straightforward, however to make it good may be very laborious,” he mentioned. “We’re not going to place it on the market simply to place it on the market.”

The menu is full of plenty of good trying dishes, Fronimos mentioned, however the restaurant’s top-selling merchandise is its bagel sandwich.

It’s an every part bagel full of scrambled eggs, two slices of American cheese and a hand packed sausage patty made at Stray Hen. The restaurant’s bagels are delivered contemporary each day from Barry Bagels in Ann Arbor.

Whereas it is probably not the healthiest, Fronimos mentioned his go-to menu merchandise is the Cobb Wrap. It comes with romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, egg, bacon, hen tenders, avocado, onion, cheddar cheese and ranch dressing on a jalapeno cheddar tortilla.

The restaurant additionally options its Illinois roots in its Michigan restaurant, together with its Massive Shoulders Espresso from Chicago, which is used to make fashionable drinks like its Pistachio Latte.

Stray Hen is about up a bit in a different way than different breakfast spots because it follows a “quick, informal idea,” Fronimos mentioned. Prospects wait in line, order their meals, obtain a quantity and discover their seats. Their meals is then dropped at them primarily based on their quantity.

“I don’t imagine within the kiosk idea the place you simply go as much as a kiosk and kind in your order,” he mentioned “I do really need the shopper interplay half nonetheless there, however I believe the server idea is a bit bit removed from the place we’re going.”

To maintain buyer interactions, Fronimos mentioned Stray Hen has stored the identical workers members on the location for the reason that restaurant opened final 12 months, and that is one thing he mentioned he’s is pleased with.

“Our optimistic evaluations all come due to our workers,” he mentioned. “I would like simply to emphasise that at Stray Hen we attempt to rent good individuals, and we are able to mould them into good staff, and I believe that that has gone a great distance.”

Stray Hen Cafe, 403 E. Washington St., in Ann Arbor is open from 8 a.m. to three p.m. each day besides Wednesday, when it’s closed. Discover the café online, on social media or by telephone at 734-929-2590.

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