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No. 20 in the world · November 2026
Mary Mac's Tea Room
No. 20The one piece to order
Fried chicken with the pot likker and cornbread
Atlanta's tea room since 1945, still frying its cracker-crusted chicken; a semifinalist in the AJC's 2026 tasting.
Make it at home
Buttermilk Southern fried chicken
Overnight brine, 1 hr to fry · 4 to 6 (one 1.6 kg / 3 1/2 lb chicken). The one most of the chart is built on: chicken soaked overnight in seasoned buttermilk, dredged in peppery flour with a few spoonfuls of the buttermilk worked in for craggy bits, and fried low and slow so it's cooked to the bone with a crust that cracks.
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