Top 5 Breakfast and Brunch Restaurants in Chapel Hill

Posted Jul 6, 2018
Looking for a new breakfast and brunch destination in Chapel Hill? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top morning spots around Chapel Hill, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of the best restaurants to meet your needs: 1. Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen. 2. The Purple Bowl. 3. The Root Cellar Cafe and Catering. 4. Il Palio. 5. Roots. (ABC 11)

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