A spring 2008 lunch at The Bluegill on the Causeway turned up a respectable gumbo, a properly grilled grouper filet and a plainspoken verdict on where the restaurant ranks among its neighbors.
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A Strip-Mall Kitchen on University Boulevard Lays Claim to Mobile’s Best Gumbo
After years of searching, a Mobile dining critic said in April 2008 that he had finally found a gumbo worth the hunt, at an unassuming po-boy shop at University Boulevard and Cottage Hill Road.
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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 Coast culinary orthodoxy.