Alabama Restaurants

From barbecue to seafood to steaks, Alabama restaurants offer a variety of excellent dining choices. This illustration features restaurants that not only provide delicious fare, but have stood the test of time – open for at least 45 years. Many of the restaurant signs also pay tribute to the past, serving as a welcome respite from the signage denoting restaurants today.

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(from top, left to right)
Trowbridge's Ice Cream Bar, Florence (1917)
George's Steak Pit, Sheffield (1956)
Big Spring Café, Huntsville (1922)
Ol' Heidelberg, Huntsville (1972)
Big Ed's Pizza, Huntsville (1961)
Payne's Sandwich Shop and Soda Fountain, Scottsboro (1891)
Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q, Decatur (1925)
CF Penn Hamburgers, Decatur (1927)
The Frosty Inn, Russellville (1960)
All Steak Restaurant, Cullman (1938)
The Duchess Bakery, Cullman (1939)
Mater's Pizza & Pasta Emporium, Gadsden (1978)
Leo and Susie's Famous Green Top Bar-B-Q, Dora (1973)
The Ark, Riverside (1930)
Peerless Grille & Saloon, Anniston (1899)
Eagle's Restaurant, Birmingham (1951)
The Club, Birmingham (1951)
Gus's Hot Dogs, Birmingham (1947)
Irondale Café, Irondale (1928)
Golden Rule Bar-B-Q and Grill, Irondale (1891)
Gilchrist Drug, Mountain Brook (1928)
The Bright Star, Bessemer (1907)
City Café, Northport (1931)
The Waysider, Tuscaloosa (1951)
Dreamland Bar-B-Que, Tuscaloosa (1958)
Toomer's Drugs, Auburn (1896)
Tally-Ho Restaurant, Selma (1942)
Ezell's Fish Camp, Lavaca (1937)
Chris' Famous Hotdogs, Montgomery (1917)
Martin's Restaurant, Montgomery (1930)
Bates House of Turkey, Greenville (1923)
Mossy Grove Schoolhouse Restaurant, Troy (1978)
Hunt's Seafood Restaurant & Oyster Bar, Dothan (1960)
Dew Drop Inn, Mobile (1924)
Pollman's Bake Shop, Mobile (1918)
Wintzell's Oyster House, Mobile (1938)
Julwin's Restaurant, Fairhope (1945)
Pirate's Cove (1957), Josephine
Pink Pony Pub, Gulf Shores (1956)
Flora-Bama (1964)