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Grits, Greens & Greeks: The Southern Foods Tour

Spend a day sampling the flavors of Birmingham.

Wake up the day with breakfast at Niki’s West, a Birmingham institution, where they serve up a heaping helping of Southern favorites:  country ham, cheese grits, cathead biscuits with sawmill gravy, and eggs any way you like ‘em.

Then walk off some of that fine meal at the Pepper Place Saturday Market.  This seasonal spread of Southern foods is a delight to wander through.  Farmers’ stalls are filled with peaches, peppers and tomatoes.  Local chefs demonstrate their skills at outdoor kitchens.  Live Southern music and the smell of fresh-cut flowers fill the air.

Time now for lunch at The Irondale Café, the Original Whistle Stop Café of “Fried Green Tomatoes” fame.  People come from all over the world for the restaurant’s Hollywood connection and for a good Southern meal of country fried steak, succotash, okra, cornbread, turnip greens, fried green tomatoes, banana pudding or black bottom pie and sweet tea. Then learn about a whole new concept in cookies—the bite-size cookie—at Bud’s Best Cookies.  Watch as the wire-cut and rotary cookies roll off the lines at a rate of 3,500 a minute.

Time for some grown-up touring at breweries and wineries in the area. The Alabama Wine Trail includes three locations on the outskirts of Birmingham: Ozan Vineyards and Winery, Corbin Farms Winery and Morgan Creek Vineyards.  These wineries welcome group tours to sample their bold muscadine and delicate peach wines, all made from local fruit.  New breweries in the Birmingham area give groups a delightful assortment of flavors to sample on tours of their facilities.  Among the breweries are Good People Brewing Company, Avondale Brewing Company, Trim Tab Brewing Company, Cahaba Brewing Company, Ghost Train Brewing Company, and several other outstanding local brewing companies. 

If the group has saved room for supper, check out the fresh Gulf oysters and Athenian snapper at The Fish Market.  This Birmingham eatery is a good example of the Greek immigrant influence on Birmingham’s rocketing dining scene.

For additional information regarding hotels or step-on guide services, call our Tourism Division at 800-458-8085 or 205-458-8000.

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