Birmingham Restaurant Week and Birmingham Originals announced the launch of Bham Nom Nom on March 31, a website dedicated to promoting Birmingham-metro restaurants amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.The website features a directory of independently owned restaurants, listing each restaurant's website and to-go or delivery food and alcohol capabilities. There is also a listing of … [Read more...]

By Sam Prickett Jonathan Sealy lives walking distance from Local 39 Homewood, the newly opened restaurant he owns and operates with his wife, Lyndsey. It’s 174 steps from his back door to the restaurant, actually; he’s counted. “I walk to work every day,” he said. The Sealys have lived in Homewood’s Edgewood neighborhood for 10 years, and in that time, they’ve seen a handful … [Read more...]

Semifinalists for the 2020 James Beard Awards – often referred to as the “Oscars of the food world” – were announced Feb. 26, and the list includes a few Birmingham-area favorites. Automatic Seafood & Oysters, which opened in Birmingham’s Lakeview district last year, was recognized as a semifinalist in the category of Best New Restaurant, while the Atomic Lounge, in the … [Read more...]

By Sam Prickett Jon Holland said he started thinking about a second restaurant about three days after he opened the Fig Tree Café. He opened that Cahaba Heights hole-in-the-wall in May 2014, and while it’s grown in the intervening years – from 24 to 98 seats – the idea of a new venture has always been in the back of Holland’s mind, “simply because I love forward … [Read more...]