Living, Loving Fairhope
Final weekend of June on Mobile Bay…
David Black
Teak House Thai Cuisine
Is Teak House Thai Cuisine in Daphne a changed place? Colleen and I find out during a dinner stop JUN 26 2025. When we dined here last fall, the place had just reopened after closing for nearly five months while moving into a new building. Chaotic service and other problems needed working out. While our…
“Texas T” Aboard Nave Neutrino
Nave Neutrino, an 820 foot by 144 foot crude oil tanker sailing under the flag of Panama, arrives in Mobile JUN 28 2025. With a draught of 38 feet, the ship moves at 11 mph while finishing a two day voyage that began from Yuum K’ak’ Naab, a large offshore vessel also known as an…
Southern Bayou Grill Opens
The first customer shows up before opening time, but Chef Perry Boyd doesn’t mind. He tells him to come on in. Getting to the point of being able to open a business has not been easy for the Mississippi native and partner Barbara Edwards. They tried to open their Cajun convenience store on S Mobile…
Southern Bayou Grill Preview
The countdown clock is ticking! Perry Boyd said he was hoping to open the week of JUN 23rd and he’s doing it. He says to get your tastebuds ready, because the Southern Bayou Grill featuring various Cajun seafood delicacies opens for business starting Friday JUN 27 2025 at 11am. The place is located at 11950…
Going For The Half and Half
𝙁𝙪𝙣 𝙡𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙝: Kingfisher Seafood restaurant’s fried Half and Half platter ($23) features shrimp and catfish along with fries, jambalaya, hushpuppies and a salad to start things off. Would I get this again? Absolutely…
Dedicated Fisherman
𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙮 𝙖 𝙙𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣: When you have to park a good hundred yards up the hill from the pier and haul your wagon, multiple rods, reels, chair and ‘stuff’ down the hill, navigate around construction machinery, mud, uneven surfaces and the now famous fenced Working Waterfront “this will be fun” obstacle course before…
Farmer’s Market JUN 19 2025
Chilton Co. peaches in abundance along with eggplant, corn, beef, plants, microgreens and more. Next week’s market–JUN 26 2025–is the last for the season… About the market: Where: Behind Fairhope Public Library When: Thursdays, 3pm-6pm 2025 dates: APR 3rd – JUN 26th
Out With Old, In With New
A seventy five year old home on Pecan St in Fairhope’s Fruit and Nut District meets its demise the morning of JUN 19 2025. Greg and Courtney Eidson bought the property in February and plan to build a new home on the lot. The Eidsons say restoring what was already there was not a viable…
Locally Built Ultralight
Seen over Fairhope is what appears to be a Breese 2 ultralight, manufactured by M-Squared Aircraft located in St. Elmo, about 20 miles outside of Mobile…