Hot and Hot Fish Club ★ 4.7
Hot and Hot Fish Club at Pepper Place in Birmingham is the Chris Hastings flagship since 1995, with the chef-counter tomato salad and 2012 James Beard.
OrderHot and Hot tomato salad, Shrimp and grits, Soft shell crab
Fried green tomatoes are firm under-ripe tomatoes sliced thick, dredged in cornmeal and fried golden, served with remoulade or pimento cheese on top.
Fried green tomatoes have been a Southern garden staple for over a century, using under-ripe tomatoes that would otherwise go to waste at season's end. The dish became a Southern restaurant icon through the 1980s and 1990s with Fannie Flagg's novel and the 1991 film of the same name. Birmingham restaurants ran them as bar snacks and brunch starters; OvenBird at Pepper Place runs a wood-fired version, Hot and Hot Fish Club includes them as part of the canonical tomato-salad season July through September.
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Also in: Charleston, Savannah.
OvenBird ★ 4.6
OvenBird at Pepper Place Birmingham is Chris Hastings's live-fire sibling to Hot and Hot, with Spanish, Portuguese, Uruguayan and Argentine grill traditions.
OrderAsado plates, Wood-fired vegetables, Sherry pour
Bottega Cafe ★ 4.5
Bottega Cafe in Highland Park Birmingham is the walk-in patio counterpart to Bottega, with wood-oven pizzas and the Stitt-style casual Italian menu.
OrderWood-oven pizza, Beef carpaccio, Chicken scaloppini
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