If we had been smarter, we would have made our first visit to R Bistro on Scenic Hwy 98 much earlier than JUL 30 2025. Open since DEC 2023 in the spot that used to house Fish River Grill on 98, the place offers French ambience and foods in a nicely decorated setting. Our picks…
Start with blackened flounder fillets, add fried popcorn shrimp and garlic cream sauce. Throw in grilled shrimp and a fried crab cake and you have the Joe Cain Platter ($33) at The Original Oyster House in Spanish Fort. Add a trip to the salad bar ($3) and this checks the boxes for a meal that’s…
Shrimp and grits ($16.95) at Julwin’s in Fairhope. Shrimp with bits of Conecuh sausage along with onions, bell pepper, tomatoes and a grit cake covered in sauce. This dish has been a favorite of customers for years. Haven’t had this in a long time, making me ask, what was I thinking?
A lot of good natured ribbing takes place in front of Fairhope’s VFW Post 5660 JUL 19 2025. Fat Boys Grilling, a local cooking group that provides on-site cooking services for charitable causes, cooks slabs of ribs to raise money for Fairhope resident Charlie Barkley, who recently lost Catrina Phillips, his partner and business associate….
The hot server comes up with a spectacular idea about how to put some recently obtained Chilton Co. peaches to good use: Peach cobbler a la mode. Served warm straight out of the oven with cold vanilla ice cream. Whatever her plan is, delicious is an understatement. It’s a flight in plush first class seats…
Charlie Barkley works to put his life together again. Ever since losing Catrina Phillips, his partner in life and business who passed away in May, the days and nights have been hard. Before her death from organ failure, Charlie makes a pledge to Catrina: He will always make sure her two girls are taken care…
Members of Fairhope’s Elks Lodge 1879 get a clear message about serving food on the Fourth of July: Eastern shore residents like it. The Elks Lodge sells out of 80 pounds of ribs and 200 pounds of chicken in less than 90 minutes the morning of JUL 4th 2025. Members had started work at 2:30am….
𝘾𝙖𝙩𝙛𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙝𝙞𝙩: For folks wanting fresh farm-raised Alabama catfish for their Fourth of July meal, Fairhope’s VFW Post 5660 is the place to be. For the third year, the post serves catfish prepared by the crew with Fat Boys Grilling. Organizers say this is their best year yet with sales…
While the Bay end of the Fairhope pier is closed so setup can take place for the city’s Fourth of July fireworks display, you can still walk out onto the pier to visit The Blind Tiger and try out items like the bacon cheddar cheese fries. The restaurant’s owners say they’re open Thursday and Friday…
𝙊𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙚? 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙡𝙪𝙘𝙠 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩! The white chocolate bread pudding served at the newly opened Southern Bayou Grill on Hwy 32 in Fairhope will probably make you think you should have had dessert first…