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Southern Trippers
Are you looking for a list of the best restaurants in Birmingham AL? We have you covered with all the best places to eat around the city!
Birmingham Alabama is one of the prettiest cities in the South, and home to some amazing restaurants. After exploring our list of the best things to do in Birmingham you are sure to work up an appetite There are walking trails, ghost tours, Civil Rights museums and more. Whether you are visiting for a weekend get-a-way, or a longer vacation make sure to check out our list of the best restaurants in Birmingham Alabama.
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Travel Awaits
Birmingham, Alabama, is a city in a state of perpetual transformation. Rising like a phoenix from the ashes of its dark past, the city has come a long way and is steadily moving farther into the bright light of vibrancy, diversity, and inclusion. This forward motion can be seen in every aspect of Birmingham life, but perhaps the most surprising is in its food scene. The city has evolved into a haven for innovative American and international cuisines waiting to be discovered.
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Good Grit
After twenty-seven years in business, there is one constant at Chef Chris Hastings’ Hot & Hot Fish Club—the annual arrival of THE Tomato Salad. Regular guests and social media followers alike await this moment each May when the growing season in places like Imokalee, Florida start producing bright, acidic, perfectly-balanced red globes of juicy deliciousness. If you are a tomato lover (and if you aren’t one, I might not want to know you…) THESE are the tomatoes that require very little adornment to honor their flavor and beauty.
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All Clad
This recipe in unique to Carolina's low country where Chef Hasting grew up. This is the same pan you will find us using in our kitchen at Hot and Hot Fish Club when creating this dish.
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AL.com
After a year in which his restaurant sat empty for more than six months because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chris Hastings, the chef and co-owner of Birmingham’s Hot and Hot Fish Club, says he, his staff and his guests can almost taste a return to normalcy.
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Wild American Shrimp
Christopher Hastings is the Chef and co-owner of Hot and Hot Fish Club and Ovenbird Restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama. A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Hastings is a graduate of the Johnson & Wales Culinary School in Providence, Rhode Island.
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AndrewZimmern.com
Leading a group of chefs changing the country’s perception of Southern cuisine is Chris Hastings, chef/owner of Hot and Hot Fish Club in Birmingham (one of the best restaurants in the South, if not the whole country). Chris and his wife Idie have been serving modern Southern/French cuisine that celebrates Alabama’s farmers and fishermen since they opened their restaurant in 1995. Last year, Chris not only won a James Beard award, but he also beat chef Bobby Flay at his own game: battle sausage on Iron Chef America. We talk with Chris about his favorite local ingredients, Birmingham’s food scene and Southern chefs to keep an eye on.
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Garden & Gun
Chef Chris Hastings on moving a culinary institution twenty-four years strong.
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This podcast is fascinating, as Chris talks about his early days in the business, to his time on Iron Chef, and then winning the prestigious James Beard award that goes to the "best chef in the south".