re: Birmingham eats and drinks recommendations?

Hopefully you get the chance to play Shoal Creek while you're there. Beautiful golf course in a beautiful setting and an annual Top 60 course annually.

One place not mentioned that I would definitely check out before you leave is Vulcan Park. It's just up the hill from Five Points and has an elevator to an observation deck with amazing views of downtown B'ham. Definitely worth checking out. As for Halloween activities, ask a local if anything is going on at Sloss Furnaces which is a notoriously old haunted Steel mill/furnace.