Category: restaurants

The Fish Market Restaurant & Oyster Bar on Birmingham’s Southside has served Gulf-fresh seafood, traditional Greek foods and Southern dishes to generations of customers, and now the next generation in the Sarris family is helping make sure this beloved business continues to thrive. The restaurant and seafood market have been around since 1983 when owner … Continue reading A Legacy Restaurant Business

The slogan for Wharf Casual Seafood is “The Coast is Here.” It’s perfect for a restaurant that brings Gulf-fresh seafood—everything from oysters to shrimp to fin fish—to mostly inland areas of the Southeast. “Here” is becoming nearer all the time; the regional chain is growing steadily and delivering coastal deliciousness to more and more people … Continue reading The Coast is Quite Near

Homegrown and chef-driven. Authentic yet inventive. Intuitive and intentional. Really good and simply real. Rusty’s Bar-B-Q in Leeds is all that, and owner Rusty Tucker will still surprise you. About 20 minutes from Birmingham and just off I-20 (where he has some official tourist-boosting signage), Rusty’s is ideally located—just up the hill from a huge … Continue reading Classical Pit Barbecue … Like Traditional but a Little Extra

Gumbo to Geaux is a chef-driven food truck (and catering and events company). In every sense. Owner and founder Etricia Robinson, a classically trained chef, is driven to offer the authentic country-Creole dishes she grew up eating. “If Emeril Lagasse and Paula Deen had a baby,” she says, “it’d be me, because I do Cajun-Creole … Continue reading A Chef-Driven Country-Creole Food Truck

Chef Raquel Lenzie, executive chef and owner of SLIDE Café in Birmingham’s bustling Five Points South entertainment district, is not afraid of a challenge. In fact, she’s sought out challenges time and again in the culinary space—on a televised, national level and right here at home. She and her sister Regina and niece Alexandria competed … Continue reading SLIDE in for Mini Big Bites

There’s a certain soulful approach to Birmingham's Pizza Grace. You’ll taste it in the beautifully handcrafted pizzas and colorful, seasonal salads made with fresh, local ingredients. You’ll notice it in the genuinely friendly interactions with the staff. You’ll feel it in the bustling dining room with its view of the even busier kitchen. There’s a … Continue reading A Sense of Grace

Regional food is a global phenomenon. And in our increasingly multicultural state, global foods show up regionally. Take, for instance, the delicious Korean food found in Montgomery and our great “Greek and threes” in Birmingham and the authentic Vietnamese food in Bayou La Batre. The same is true in Huntsville, where lasting German influences from the early days of Redstone Arsenal make … Continue reading Prost!