Carrigan's Public House ★ 4.3
Carrigan's Public House on 3rd Avenue North downtown is an intimate Irish-American pub with craft cocktails and a New American kitchen open six days a week.
Signature: Burger, Shepherd's pie, Irish whiskey flight
Rojo is a tex-mex restaurant in Highland Park, Birmingham.
Rojo on Highland Avenue in Highland Park has run a casual Tex-Mex menu since 2002 with the canonical Highland Park patio and a strong frozen margarita pour.
Signature dishes: Fish taco, Carne asada, Frozen margarita
Address: 2921 Highland Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205
Carrigan's Public House on 3rd Avenue North downtown is an intimate Irish-American pub with craft cocktails and a New American kitchen open six days a week.
Signature: Burger, Shepherd's pie, Irish whiskey flight
Eli's Jerusalem Grill on Highway 280 east of the city runs an authentic Israeli kitchen with a vegetarian-vegan plate of falafel, hummus and baba ghanoush.
Signature: Falafel plate, Vegetarian plate, Lentil soup
The Grill at Iron City on 22nd Street South is the 22,000-square-foot entertainment-venue dining room downtown, with a pre-show prix-fixe and Gulf seafood.
Signature: Pre-show prix-fixe, Alabama Gulf snapper, House burger
Chez Lulu on Cahaba Road in English Village is a French-Riviera bistro next door to Continental Bakery, both opened by Carole Griffin in the 1980s and 1990s.
Signature: Mediterranean pizza, Bistro salad, Continental sourdough
The Pizitz Food Hall on 2nd Avenue North runs more than a dozen counters in the 2nd Avenue North District, from ramen and poke to Ethiopian and Cajun.
Signature: B'ham Chicken counter, Broad Street Peaux Boys, Ono Poke
Big Bad Breakfast on Highway 280 is John Currence's Birmingham branch of the Oxford-Mississippi original, with Conecuh-sausage gravy and weekend brunch lines.
Signature: Pork chop and eggs, Conecuh sausage gravy, Pancake stack