Mobile and Baldwin County News
When fire tore through Ed’s Seafood Shed on the Causeway in September 2021, it would have been easy to write off the beloved restaurant as another casualty of bad luck.…
Fresh Off The Boat at SanRoc Cay Marina in Orange Beach had one of the most eventful openings in recent Gulf Coast restaurant memory — a pandemic, a liquor-license backlog,…
Some restaurants chase trends. Cheryl’s Café in Spanish Fort has spent more than a quarter century doing the opposite — serving plate lunches, homemade soups, and chicken and dumplings to…
Ask a great chef what makes a dining experience great, and the answer is rarely about the food alone. Ask Chef Orlando Amaro — the Venezuelan-born culinary director now anchoring…
Fall on the Gulf Coast has a flavor, and it is not pumpkin spice. It is sharp cheddar, cayenne, and butter — the taste of a good cheese straw, the…
For one weekend each February, the Fort Morgan peninsula becomes the oyster capital of the Gulf Coast. The Fort Morgan Oyster Fest, held at The Beach Club, turns the last…
When Charles Morgan talks about downtown Mobile, he talks like a man who has seen this movie before. His restaurant group — Chuck’s Fish, Five, and El Papi among them…
Reservations are required at Char 32, and after one visit it is easy to see why. The restaurant occupies a corner of the historic Point Clear Swim and Tennis Club,…
The idea started in front of the Philadelphia Mint. In 1988, a high school student named Jeremiah Litwack sold Italian ice to passersby, dreaming of a bigger version of the…
On a five-acre water column in Pensacola Bay, a former environmental scientist raises oysters named — indirectly — after his sons. Grayson Bay Oyster Company, the tide-to-table farm operated by…