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Kitchen Cops find overflowing toilet, clogged dishwasher and rodent droppings across the Valley

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - The Kitchen Cops made a very unpleasant discovery while checking out a restaurant in DeKalb County this week. Hacienda Real on South Valley Avenue in Collinsville was hit with a 72 after the inspectors found rodents and rodent droppings. The health department notes that this was found in a storage building that was separate from the main restaurant building. There was also an issue with gray sewage water backing up onto the kitchen floor from the sink and dishwasher, and a lack of soap in a restroom.

Dekalb County, AL · 5d
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It Sounds Crazy, But Everything At This Tiny Alabama Restaurant Is 100% Plant-Based

Alabama just called, and it wants you to put down that pulled pork sandwich for a second. There’s a little restaurant in Madison, Alabama called The Veggie, and it is doing something that most people in the Heart of Dixie would consider either revolutionary or slightly suspicious. Every single...

Madison, AL · 1d
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The Most Delicious Cajun Dishes In Alabama Are Hiding In The Most Unexpected Country Location

Nobody told you that a purple building off a country road in Harvest, Alabama would change the way you think about Cajun food, but here we are, and here it is. LJz Backyard Bayou is the kind of place that makes you feel genuinely lucky to have found it, and the food makes you feel even luckier to be eating it.

Harvest, AL · 2d
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This Alabama Lakeside Fish House Serves Seriously Good Seafood In Huge Portions

One dish on this menu is called the World’s Largest Seafood Platter. That name alone tells you how this place feels about portions. Before your main plate even lands, warm cornbread shows up in a little skillet. Coleslaw and pickled onions come right along with it, and they’re free.

Guntersville, AL · 4d
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Changing restaurant landscape: Recent closures raise questions about impact on workers

CULLMAN, Ala. – Over the past several months, Cullman has seen a growing number of familiar restaurants close their doors, leaving vacant storefronts, disappointed customers and questions about the future of the city’s dining industry. However, beyond the loss of favorite gathering places, the closures have brought attention to another concern: the employees whose livelihoods depend on these businesses. Since August, at least six Cullman restaurants have announced or completed closures, including KFC’s south Cullman location, Puckett’s Restaurant, Wissota Chophouse, Lucy’s on 3rd, Augusta’s Sports Grill and Shrimp Basket. While the circumstances surrounding each closure differ, the concentration of shutdowns within a relatively short period has raised questions about the challenges facing local restaurants and what happens to their employees when operations come to an end. A series of closures One of the first major closures came in August, when the KFC restaurant in South Cullman Shopping Center served its final customers Aug. 16. The closure marked the end of the Kohl and Weir family’s 58-year history operating KFC franchises. Owner Kent Weir cited slowing business, changing consumer preferences and increased competition as contributing factors. The KFC on Alabama Highway 157 remains open under separate ownership. “This has been an

Cullman, AL · 1d

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Most People Don’t Know This Tiny Alabama Restaurant Serves The Best German Food In The State

You could drive past Ol’ Heidelberg Cafe in Huntsville, Alabama a hundred times and never know what you were missing, and that would be a genuine tragedy worth preventing. The good news is that you’re reading this right now, which means your streak of missing out ends today.

Huntsville, AL · 5d

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Six Alabama Dairy Bars Still Serve Ice Cream Long After Summer Ends

Summer packs up and leaves, but a soft serve craving never really does. Across Alabama, a handful of old-school dairy bars keep their windows open and their cone machines running well into fall and winter. These are the walk-up stands and counter-service joints where dipped cones, banana splits, chili dogs,...

Athens, AL · 4d

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Some Of Alabama’s Best Food Awaits At These 11 Middle-Of-Nowhere Restaurants

Looking for the best middle-of-nowhere restaurants hiding across Alabama?. These 11 spots promise outstanding food and experiences that are truly worth the drive!. 1. Irondale Cafe (Irondale) Irondale is a small town sitting just outside Birmingham, and it punches well above its weight class when it comes to culinary significance.

Tuscumbia, AL · 8d

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Ask Anyone In Florence About A Slaw Dog And They’ll Send You To Trowbridge’s

Some towns have a statue in the square. Florence, Alabama, has a soda counter that has been serving neighbors since 1918. Families pass down their favorite booth the way other families pass down recipes, and folks happily drive 90 minutes just for one afternoon stop. The menu keeps things simple, with hot dogs, chili, sandwiches, shakes, and a fruity ice cream flavor that a great-grandfather dreamed up generations ago.

Florence, AL · 6d

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These 8 Alabama BBQ Joints Have Been Smoking Pork Over Hickory Since Before You Were Born

Alabama takes its barbecue seriously, and some of the best places in the state have been cooking pork the slow way for generations. These are the spots where hickory smoke and family recipes have stayed the same for decades, long before most of us were around to taste them. If...

Alabama · 13d

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12 Whiskey Laws That Surprise Most Americans

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Lynchburg, TN · 18d

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This Unique Seafood Restaurant In Alabama Serves Up The Freshest Catfish You’ll Ever Taste

If you’ve been eating frozen catfish your whole life and calling it good, The Fish Creel in Anderson, Alabama is about to have a serious conversation with your taste buds. This is the kind of restaurant that resets your expectations and makes you wonder what else you’ve been settling for without realizing it.

Anderson, AL · 9d

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Road-Trippers Pass Right By These 8 Alabama Restaurants That Have Outlasted The Interstate

Interstates made Alabama road trips faster, but they also sent a lot of drivers zooming past the places that fed travelers long before the first exit ramp opened. Some of those old restaurants never left. They still sit on Main Streets, courthouse squares, and old U.S. highways, serving biscuits, barbecue,...

Tuscaloosa, AL · 8d

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Cullman gathers by candlelight for ‘An Evening with Poe’

CULLMAN, Ala. – The night came on, as November nights do, cold and early and quiet. Inside Jubilee Kitchen + Bar, the candles were already lit. Tall tapers flickered against dark walls. Deep crimson cloth pooled across the tables like spilled wine, and a single red rose waited beside each small glass vase. At the bar, beneath a chandelier glowing like a cluster of pale moons, cocktails with names borrowed from the grave were shaken and poured. And then, as the hour of six drew near, the room fell still, and the voice of Edgar Allan Poe returned to the living. Jubilee and the Cullman County Public Library joined forces Monday, Nov. 2, for “An Evening with Poe,” a night of cocktails and dramatic readings celebrating the 19th-century master of mystery and the macabre. Guests gathered for a cocktail hour at 5 p.m. before readings began at 6. Even the drinks were steeped in dread. Jubilee’s “An Evening with Poe” specials menu, marked with a perched raven, offered five cocktails inspired by the author’s darkest works: The Black Cat: vodka, chocolate liqueur, cherry and heavy cream The Raven: blanco tequila, Cointreau, blackberry and lime The Pale Blue Eye: gin, elderflower

Cullman, AL · 6d

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5 Best Restaurants in Huntsville, Alabama You Need to Try Before Everyone Else Finds Them

Huntsville, Alabama — a city where rocket scientists and artists share coffee in sunlit cafes, where the Tennessee River bends through neighborhoods stitched with memory and ambition, where the scent of biscuits and barbecue drifts through the morning air. Here, the skyline is a patchwork of glass towers and red-brick mills, each block humming with the laughter of families, the wisdom of old-timers, and the dreams of newcomers drawn by the promise of possibility.

Huntsville, AL · 20d

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This Tiny Alabama Restaurant Serves German Food So Good, You’ll Think You’re In Bavaria

There’s a strip mall in Huntsville, Alabama that’s hiding one of the greatest German restaurants you’ve probably never heard of, and the fact that you’ve been going about your life without knowing about Ol’ Heidelberg Cafe is something we need to address immediately. This is...

Huntsville, AL · 19d

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The Cajun Food At This Remote Alabama Restaurant Is So Good, You’ll Forget How Far You Drove

Most great food discoveries don’t happen in obvious places, and LJz Backyard Bayou in Harvest, Alabama is proof that the best meals are often waiting at the end of a road you almost didn’t take. You’ll drive past the kind of scenery that makes you wonder why you...

Harvest, AL · 17d

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8 Old-School Alabama BBQ Joints Where The White Sauce Alone Is Worth The Drive

Ready to find the best old-school BBQ joints in Alabama?. These 8 smoky spots serve up legendary white sauce and fall-off-the-bone barbecue you’ll be thinking about for days!. 1. Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q (Decatur) Let’s start with the place that basically invented Alabama white sauce. Big Bob Gibson...

Decatur, AL · 17d

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Shrimp Basket closes six Alabama and Florida locations as company shifts focus

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Nov. 2, 2026 UPDATE (1:35 p.m.): News 5 has learned more about Artistry Restaurants’ closure of six Shrimp Basket locations in Alabama and Florida, including two in the News 5 coverage area. The Bay Minette and Pensacola locations’ last day of business was Sunday, Nov. 1, […]

Pensacola, FL · 8d

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K&K’s Smash Burgers to open first permanent restaurant in Hartselle in early 2027

A popular local food truck plans to open its first brick-and-mortar restaurant in Hartselle at the beginning of 2027. K&K's Smash Burgers will be located at 2100 Hwy 31, Hartselle, just south of Moss Chapel Road NW. The owners announced the expansion on social media. The building is already familiar...

Hartselle, AL · 13d