Downtown Cajun Cook-Off Delivers Another Winning Year for a Good Cause
Despite competing events and threatening weather, the 2016 Downtown Cajun Cook-Off drew a strong crowd and raised money for the Child Advocacy Center of Mobile.
Oysters Rockefeller in Mobile: Why Gulf Coast Versions Vary
An archival Mobile food-history look at Oysters Rockefeller: its documented 1899 origin, secret original recipe and the Gulf Coast variations that followed.
Local Food Roundup: Chasing Fresh Opens a Market, Mudbugs Settles In, and Fairhope Brewing Taps a New IPA
From a new Chasing Fresh pickup market in Fairhope to Mudbugs' relocation in Mobile and Fairhope Brewing's new Causeway IPA, here's what's new across south Alabama's food and drink scene.
Mobile Author Traces the City’s Restaurant History, From Hot Dog Stands to White Tablecloths
A new self-published book is putting names, dates and old family recipes to the restaurants that shaped how Mobile ate over the past century and a half. “Old Mobile Restaurants,”…
At The Royal Scam, Downtown Mobile Found Its Best Bowl of Shrimp Etouffee
A spring 2008 lunch at the Royal Scam on Royal Street produced the best shrimp etouffee in Mobile, a standout salad, and a lesson in the difference between a dark…
Two Meals at The Blind Mule, and Both of Them Were the Last
Stale smoke, a gumbo with no taste and red beans that defied description sent our critic out the door of a downtown Mobile music bar with no intention of returning.
‘Do Ya Want Dat Dressed, Dahlin?’ In Search of a Proper Roast Beef Po-Boy
Dressed, pressed, and messy enough to require a stack of napkins: our critic laid out the rules of a proper roast beef po-boy, then admitted he had yet to find…
The Captain’s Table: A Fine Place for Politics, a Poor One for Lunch
A burned roux, a jambalaya that resembled microwaved rice and greasy fried green tomatoes left our critic doing something he almost never does: leaving food on the plate.
Gumbo, Revenge and Mercy: A Mobile Grandmother’s Verdict on Canned Salmon
When a Mobile attorney sent a canned-salmon gumbo recipe to his daughter's West Coast newspaper column, his mother wrote back with a letter that doubled as a lesson in Gulf…