Roughing It, Gulf Coast Style
Black’s Cafe in Fairhope never disappoints. On the night of SEP 7th 2025, it’s Conecuh sausage with potatoes, onions and squash grilled on the Blackstone. Someone has to do it…
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Black’s Cafe: Mediterranean
Hearty and tasty: Chickpeas, red onion, cucumber, parsley, mint, sesame seeds, kosher salt, pepper, lemon zest, lemon juice, plus olive oil infused with coriander, cumin, garlic, and red pepper with Tahini dressing. And then there’s the fresh Gulf shrimp with tangy cocktail sauce and grape leaves. Summer: Hot. Server: Hot…
Black’s Cafe goes healthy
After all the sweets, cookies, pies and other unhealthy food over the holidays, the cute chef at Black’s says it’s time to take meals in a new direction and uses the start of 2025 to do it. Just in time for the Arctic cold blast, it’s ginger/tumeric soup. Served hot (just like the chef), this…
Add a little Lemon…
When life gives you lemons: When we plant our lemon tree a couple of years back, I’m glad to see it but don’t give much thought to the benefits that are coming. Today, the perspective is different. Given that Black’s Cafe is our most frequent dining spot, juice from lemons off this tree have more…
Black’s Cafe: Shrimp & Pasta
𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙧𝙪𝙣 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙩 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠’𝙨 𝘾𝙖𝙛𝙚: Grilled shrimp and sun dried tomatoes with feta cheese over pasta. On a 20s windchill night, the cute server at this place knocks another dinner out of the park. And it doesn’t hurt that the lemon providing the juice squeezed over the shrimp comes from a tree in the…
Black’s Cafe: Stuffed Squash
Tex-Mex dining as Black’s Cafe goes southwestern: We had this dish once before and it was a hit straight out of the gate. Take a butternut squash and stuff it with ground beef, black beans, corn, tomatoes, green onions, mild green chiles and cheddar and/or pepper jack cheese and then bake. Found this on the…