We recently checked a restaurant off our to try list. We met one Saturday at The Battery in Homewood. We were going to start with the Beer Cheese Queso and guess what…..they were out of Beer Cheese. So we decided not to have an appetizer as nothing else on the appetizer menu appealed to us…
Category: New Restaurant
Pete’s in Orange Beach
We recently spent a few days in Orange Beach, Alabama. This is a place we visit often so we are always looking for new spots that may have opened up since the last visit. On this trip we were staying across the street from this building that was not there on our last visit. We…
Mexicali Blues
This is another one of the restaurants in the new Trussville Entertainment District that we have recently tried. This was our first visit to this restaurant. We met there one night after work. There was not a wait and we were seated quickly. I had not looked at the menu ahead of time, so I…
Pinchgut Pies
Trussville, Alabama is trying to revitalize and make their downtown area an entertainment district. They have a stage for concerts and events surrounded by several restaurants. They are trying to make the area a little more upscale, pedestrian friendly and a place where everyone wants to be. We’ve been to a restaurant and ice cream…
The Little London
There is a restaurant that has been on our list for quite some time. We were recently in the area when they were open. It is called The Little London and is in Homewood. They started out as a food truck in the red double decker bus “The Duchess” and have moved to a restaurant….
Date Night!!
Any excuse for a date night is a good one!! We recently went to Red Mountain Theater to see Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella. This was the 2nd show that I had seen at the new theater and Jeff’s first. First of all the theater is really nice and if you haven’t visited you should! We…
The Ridge Eat & Drink
We recently tried another new to us place. It is in Vestavia Hills off of Rocky Ridge Road. It is called The Ridge Eat & Drink. It had been on our to try list at some point, but we had taken it off for one reason or another. Yes we have a running list of…
Besito’s Mexican Kitchen
It’s been awhile since we’ve been to a new restaurant. I guess we kind of got away from checking out all the new places since Covid shut everything down. but new places are reopening and we are getting back to checking them out. We were in the Brook Highland/280 area of Birmingham and decided to…
Biltmore House
In the fall we planned our vacation for places we visited places before and a few new places. By the end of the the trip we had actually been thru 5 states!! We started our trip with breakfast in Leeds and then we hit I-20 and headed East thru Atlanta. For lunch we were in…
Wetumpka
For my birthday this year we were looking for something to do, so we decided to visit Wetumpka to see what HGTV Hometown Takeover had completed while there. We had never been to the area before so we aren’t sure what it looked like before their visit other than what they showed during the shows….