re: Birmigham Restaurants

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Baha Burger is okay. Chez Fon Fon, Jack Brown's, and Sammy's Sandwiches all have better burgers, IMO. And the Golden Rule on 31.

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Yeah, but how many of the girls that work at the other places have you banged? That can affect your rating IMO

I am curious on which restaurant you decided to visit. Enjoy the race, the weather should be perfect.

I am so disappointed in a few things

1. I missed this thread and my chance to reply
2. Some of the patrons naming "Jim N Nicks"
3. The lack of good suggestions by most of the posters

J Alexanders. Get the prime rib and carrot cake for dessert!

Saw's and Miss Myra's are the only places I get BBQ from in Bham. I love Full Moon's sauce, but their meat is too hit or miss between all their locations.

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Bottega Restaurant & Cafe

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Used to work there a few years ago. By far the most overrated place in Bham. If you like your food drenched in oil, and over salted, you’ll love the cafe side. Only place I ever worked where people didn’t enjoy what they were eating, but ate it anyway because they didn’t want to be seen complaining. It’s very much a restaurant where certain people go to be seen, and not because of the food. The manager when I worked there actually kept a record of certain individuals or families who were in the restaurant and what businesses they owned, how much they were worth, and would always give me a short run down on them before I would greet the table. I definitely got the impression that I was supposed to treat them different than the regular nobodies that stopped in to eat.

Edit: After I left, I found out a few months later that the manager would routinely call my other job on days I was not scheduled. She was trying to find out if I was working my other job. It was pretty creepy to say the least.

The food wasn’t horrible but was not “wow! This is amazing!” food. It was at times over complicated for no reason. I mean it’s great that you can source blue cheese, produced in caves in South Carolina, but when 99% of the customers don’t want blue cheese on a sandwich, you should take that into account. To be inflexible and say they can’t order the sandwich without it because it changes the flavor profile is retarded. To me that says it’s not about the guest and what they want, it’s about your ego. It bothered me to no end to see people drop money on a meal they didn’t enjoy, eat it anyway because they were afraid to be seen complaining and then over tip on top of that.... and don’t even get me started on the staff. I’ve never worked with so many servers who had an overinflated sense of their relationship with customers.

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BowlJackson

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Damn boy - we are cut from the same cloth

Tip Top is easily one of my kids' favorite places

Agree with everything you said, except I was not very impressed with Niki's West - definitely not a place I will go out of my way to eat - Bluff Park Diner, Bougue's, Ted's and Sarris Cafe are all better IMO

Paw Paw Patch? Damn good - plus, it was the only place I could get my oldest to eat veggies when she was young, she was an extremely finacky eater, but loved her some Paw Paw Patch - owners have to be 7th Day Adventists (closed Saturday, open Sunday - yes I am speculating)

I knew the old owner at Bluff Park/Tip Top - great guy, played HS baseball for Vestavia- new owners have done a nice job at both places

Have you tried the Homewood Diner?

Tip Top does have great breakfast, but for my money, Ranch House is better, but I am not a fan of the lunch there...

Have you ever had Ken's BBQ Breakfast on Hwy 79?