Down the Stairs and Into the Scene: The Book Cellar Keeps Fairhope’s Easy Hours
Down the Stairs and Into the Scene: Fairhope’s Book Cellar Keeps Its Easy Hours Fairhope has no shortage of places to hear live music, but few rooms have the particular…
Four Decades on the Line: Tamara Wintzell’s Tamara’s Downtown Remains a Fairhope Institution
Four Decades of Feeding Fairhope Tamara Wintzell has been a fixture of the Fairhope restaurant scene for more than four decades — long enough to remember when the town’s dining…
Four Decades Feeding Fairhope: Tamara Wintzell and the Story of Tamara’s Downtown
Tamara Wintzell has opened, sold and reopened restaurants in Fairhope for more than 40 years. Tamara's Downtown is her enduring showcase of high standards and hospitality.
A Heart-Shaped Leaf and a New Career: Ashleigh McKenzie’s Plant Shoppe in Fairhope
Former IT professional Ashleigh McKenzie turned a downtown corner into The Plant Shoppe, a seasonal Fairhope garden center and gift shop inspired by her late father's love of nature.
From the Cowboys to Section Street: How Rae’s Kitchen Found a Home in Fairhope
A friendship between two Dallas Cowboys families led Nancy and Jessica to open Rae's Kitchen in Fairhope, a ready-to-go meal shop and lunch spot now on Section Street across from…
The Monkey Bar: The Fairhope Cocktail Bar Built in an Old Bank Drive-Thru
Interior designer Ellen Semple turned the drive-through lanes of a former bank on Section Street into the Monkey Bar, a leafy open-air spot beside her Five Gold Monkeys boutique.
Riverbend and East Bay Engraving: 25 Years of Fairhope Stories on Section Street
The little shop on Section Street geared toward everything male has been a Fairhope fixture for a quarter century, but the story behind Riverbend — and the engraving operation in…
One Week in the Cellar: Local Musicians Keep Page & Palette’s Stage Humming in Fairhope
From Phil and Foster to Strickly Rivers and the Delta Drifters, a week of shows at The Book Cellar inside Page & Palette showcased Fairhope's local live music scene.
Master Joe’s: The Fairhope Sushi House Where a Doctor Became a Sushi Master
Every food town has a table that regulars guard jealously, and in Fairhope one of those belongs to Master Joe’s, the small, always-inviting sushi restaurant on Section Street. Named for…
From Desert Storm to Downtown: How Running Wild Became the Gulf Coast’s Home for Runners
Two Stores, One Mission: Getting Gulf Coast Runners Into the Right Shoes Few businesses on the Gulf Coast can trace their origins to a chance meeting at a New Mexico…