VacationIdea.com

From traditional fine dining establishments to casual soul food eateries, Birmingham, Alabama is a must-visit destination for foodies, known for its welcoming Southern hospitality and a diverse selection of flavors. Here you will find outstanding Southern cuisine, excellent pizza, French-inspired dishes, Californian, Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, Spanish and other delicious creations. Top it all off with one of the local brews and a chocolate pudding dessert. Here are the best restaurants in Birmingham, AL.

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eatalabamaseafood.com

A couple years ago, we adopted a tradition from our friends across the pond.

The Feast of Seven Fishes is a holiday tradition rooted in Catholicism and born of Southern Italy. It’s a simple yet tasty gathering—a meal consisting of seven different seafood dishes, served typically on Christmas Eve in accordance with the absence of red meat.

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Al.com

George Reis is the chef and owner at Ocean and 5 Point Public House. Here, he shares a recipe for a new twist on a beloved holiday classic side dish. His Oyster Cakes are the eleventh dish in our series of The 12 Dishes of Birmingham Christmas. Look out for the rest of the recipes in the days leading up to Christmas and find the entire gallery of dishes here.

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Bhamnow.com

If you are looking for a go-to seafood spot, Birmingham has many to choose from. From a great hole in the wall to fancier spot,  you’ll be able to find your favorite fishy spot to chow down. Whether you are craving fish, oysters or even a whole bunch of Shrimp, these restaurants have got you covered.

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Onlyinyourstate.com

Alabama is well known for its large variety of seafood, especially oysters. This comes as no surprise considering Alabama is the largest oyster processor in the United States. From raw and steamed, to fried and grilled, there are several different ways to eat an oyster. Listed below are 10 of the best oyster bars in Alabama. You’ll love them all!

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AL.com

George Reis is the chef and owner at Ocean and 5 Point Public House. Here, he shares a recipe for a new twist on a beloved holiday classic side dish. His Oyster Cakes are the eleventh dish in our series of The 12 Dishes of Birmingham Christmas. Look out for the rest of the recipes in the days leading up to Christmas and find the entire gallery of dishes here.

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AL.com

Two days of oysters for lunch and dinner between two pals and coworkers is no small feat. Haley made her time in Dothan count, swinging by one of her favorite doughnut spots for a dozen before we hit the road back to Birmingham, where we began the first leg of our taste trip.

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Oyster Obsession

Your Oyster Recipe of the Day: Oyster Stew with Biscuits. Chef George Reis of 5 Point Public House Oyster Bar and Ocean restaurant prepared this recipe on Fox 6 “Good Day Alabama” with Martie Duncan last October. It combines fluffy biscuits with steamy, rich oyster stew.  Blending two, simple comfort foods makes a doubly comforting bowl.

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AL.com

In late October this oyster journey began with a voting period to nominate the most popular, most delicious, and most aesthetically pleasing restaurants with an oyster-focused menu in Alabama. Based on your votes, we made a schedule for tasting up and down the state.

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AL.com

OK, face it: Mondays are horrible, and usually the last thing you want to do is spend valuable time in your kitchen. Luckily, there are plenty of great Birmingham-area restaurants open for breakfast and/or lunch. Here are 22 that will help you get rid of your Monday blahs.

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AL.com

College football season has begun and that means it's time to bring your tailgate game to the next level. Every week this season, AL.com will bring you recipes guaranteed to impress your friends at your tailgate or gameday gathering with Ultimate Tailgate with Southern Chefs presented by Royal Cup Coffee and Tea.

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AL.com

5 Point Public House keeps a rotating menu of the freshest oysters at the time. You can also get them baked with bacon, hot sauce, and blue cheese.

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Alabama Gulf Seafood

I grew up in a family that cooked all the time. We’re very passionate about food. My parents were “foodies” long before the term even existed. My dad had the great fortune of actually taking cooking lessons with James Beard. One of my prized possessions is a cookbook signed by James Beard to my parents.

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Alabama Gulf Seafood

Preheat the grill to medium-high heat. If you’re using charcoal, allow the coals to burn halfway down. Rub entire outside of fish with olive oil. Next, generously season outside of fish with salt, pepper, oregano, and garlic. Spray completely with baker’s spray. Place on grill to cook.

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StyleBlueprint

Take the already amazing garlic Parmesan house fries from 5 Point Public House Oyster Bar and let Chef George Reis turn them into the famously popular Canadian specialty, poutine. “Garlic Parmesan fries topped with pulled pork, cheese curds and homemade beef gravy … ” says Chef George. “How can it not be awesome?” Mic dropped.

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Saveur

The Southern oyster has finally gained a rightful place on the raw bar with the best of the East and West Coasts. Here's where to taste America's new breed of bivalves.

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Garden & Gun

From Alabama to Texas, inventive new dining spots are highlighting a different kind of harvest. The aquatic counterpart to farm-centric restaurants, which owe their popularity to a deepening desire among eaters to connect to the land, these oyster bars aim to showcase a diversity of merroir—the unique flavor characteristics oysters absorb from their individual environments. Here are 6 new Southern places doing bivalves right.

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AL.com

Birmingham's 5 Point Public House Oyster Bar gets a shout-out on Saveur magazine's new list of "8 Exceptional Places to Wolf Down the New, Delicious Breeds of Southern Oysters."

The food/travel/lifestyle magazine recognized some of the restaurants and oyster bars "where Southern oysters are plentiful, and the value of their singular identity is downright revered."

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B-Metro

Chef George Reis has shucked many an oyster at Ocean Restaurant. But today we are shucking and frying Alabama oysters next door at his new restaurant, 5 Point Public House Oyster Bar. Here Reis serves his succulent oysters with two special touches, his own hot sauce and house-made crackers

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StyleBlueprint

The days are long and sunny, and the evenings are cool and inviting. What better way to take advantage of the year’s best weather than with some al fresco dining! Today, we’ve compiled our big (BIG!) list of some of the best patios in Birmingham. Organized by neighborhood, this is your go-to resource all spring and summer long for huge patios, postage-stamp patios, sidewalk seating, porch dining, covered patios and dog-friendly patios, too! Bookmark this page for easy access to the best patios around. We didn’t cover the entirety of the Magic City, but we got a very good start!

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AL.com

If there's one thing that Alabama does better than anyone else (besides football), it's probably food. And in 2015, plenty of new restaurants arrived on the state's dining scene.

From James Beard-winning Chef Chris Hastings' long-awaited restaurant Ovenbird to gluten-free fare at Huntsville's Mason Dixon Bakery and Bistro, here are AL.com reporters' picks for the 15 hottest -- and tastiest -- restaurants that opened in the Heart of Dixie in 2015.

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Buzzfeed

Do it for the ‘gram. #foodie #nom #eeeats #foodpics #instafood #foodstagram #foodlove

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Paste Magazine

So, I was born in Marin County, California. That’s where they keep oyster paradise Tomales Bay, for those of you keeping score at home. In my world oysters are delicious, awesome, sexy, celebratory—and pretty much never cooked. Yes, you’ll find an old-school seafood joint here and there that will Rockefeller those badboys for you, and I think I experienced a deep-fried one once way out in Inverness or something. But we tend to be raw, raw, raw when it comes to these bivalves. You could easily grow up here unaware that the oyster had any other applications.

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AL.com

Rows of pilings stretch out into the Gulf of Mexico near Mobile. Lane Zirlott jumps off the dock into the water. He reaches between the pilings and pulls up a PVC pipe with cylindrical baskets attached to it. As the water drains out of the baskets, the contents are revealed: live oysters. Eighty to 100 of them in each basket, to be exact.

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