Johnny's Bar-B-Que, Cullman, AL

Johnny's has the best sandwich I've tried. We're always passing though and eating in the truck (no pictures of the food) so I haven't had a chance to try anything else. It's always crowded so my guess would be that it's all good. It's not far off 65 and there is a place to park a motorhome of RV across the street, no room in the lot for a big rig if it's anywhere near mealtime.

Johnny's

Top O' The River, Guntersville, AL

Top O' The River in Guntersville, Alabama. Great food. They start you out with cornbread, slaw and pickled onions, add a cold drink and some fried pickles and you could call it done. The service is always good and view is hard to beat.

Top O' the River

They have a couple of other locations but this is the only one I've tried.

Albertville Home Bakery

Borrowed this picture from their web site.

Their rolls with my supper.

The only place I know of where you can buy a roll that really does taste like a "home-made" roll. Pick up a bag and throw them in the freezer for later, the best rolls you can buy. The doughnuts aint bad either....

Albertville Home Bakery

Take a leftover roll, cut in half, top with cheese and put in the oven on broil until the cheese is all melted, makes a great breakfast.

Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida

In a word; DON'T. It's too expensive and aint that great. This is breakfast at Cracker Barrel, about 15 minutes from Disney. About 23 bucks, tip included for bacon, sausage, ham, eggs, pancakes and everything else for two people. The Trail's End resturant at the campground runs $14.99 per person and from what I've read, is not anything to brag about. There's plenty of good places to eat just off Disney property, most will run about half what it costs to eat on site. Eat a big breakfast off-site, in your room or at the camper, carry a drink, water and a snack with you, eat a cheap lunch if you have to and split a drink (will run around 25 bucks for 2 people, the drink will be $2.49 for a small and $2.99 for a large, all four parks will run about that) then go out to Olive Garden or something for supper.

The Donut Hole, Detin, Florida

I got up early one morning (8:30) and thought I'd get some fresh donuts, The Donut Hole is only like a mile from Topsail. Holy Cow, the place was covered up. They serve breakfast and I think maybe lunch, evidently it's good cause the parking lot stays full until after lunch time. I never did get around to trying anything but the donuts just because I didn't want to get up early to beat the rush. The donuts were excellent, maybe next time we'll try breakfast.

There are two locations, this one near Topsail and another on the west side of Destin.

The Crab Trap, Destin, Florida

The beach bar is a great place to have a Crab Trap Punch and a beer while you wait on your table. There's usually a wait, sometimes 10 or 15 minutes, sometimes 45 minutes to an hour, it's a popular place.

You can get an open air view of the gulf if you get the right table.

Don't go if you're expecting a nice quiet dinner, it's loud but the service is always good.

The food is great, above is the Captain's Platter, my wife had the Crab Lover's Platter (below).

Great place to eat, enjoy a beverage, watch the folks and look out at the beach.

There are 3 or 4 more Crab Traps around, this is the only on we've tried. Here's a link to the rest:The Crab Trap

Bayou Bills Crab House, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida

There's two locations, east of Destin (3 or 4 miles from Topsail) and one in Panama City.

Char-grilled oysters, kinda like steamed with a charcoal grilled flavor.

One night we split a platter for two, ended up more like four, we ate it for lunch the next day.

During the week in September it's not crowded. Maybe a wait on the weekend.

This is the house special, a bucket of steamed. You get a choice of blue crab or legs. I managed to empty my bucket but it would actually feed two easily.

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Bayou Bill's Crab House



Kick-A** No-Bake Cookies

Everybody knows how to make no-bake cookies, if you don't Google it or something. Chocolate, peanut butter and oat meal, how could you improve on that? My wife is a genius, she added Kraft caramel bits.

and yea, I know it looks like a turd....

Stinky's Fish Camp, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida

Stinky has a saying on the wall, "It is what it is and it aint what it aint."
Well, it is good food but it aint good service. We sat for 10 or 15 minutes while they cleared 4 or 5 tables around us. The waiter was about 6' 6" tall and mumbled, so I kept wanting to stand up to hear what he was saying. They had some poo-poo specials, blackened sword fish or something (I really could not hear) but I wanted to try the crawfish pie. The dude said it was fixed fresh so might take a while, not a problem I thought. He asked if I wanted more tea (my glass was empty, did he really have to ask?) but never brought it. He later asked if we needed cocktail sauce but we still had to ask for it. I finally got the check and left him 82 cents tip just cause I didn't want to wait for him to bring the change.
Anyway, good food, stinky service. Might go back someday but wouldn't recomend it.

Country Folks Buffet, Florala, Alabama

All you can eat for $8.99, including drink, salad bar and desert. Food was great with lots of choices. The dinner buffet is $9.99 and Tuesday is shrimp night. The bannana pudding is home made, no fake bannana flavor and nice and hot, real calf slobber on top, no cool whip.

Jordano's Pizza & More

This aint Joe Momma's Pizza. It's just as good, just a totally differant kind of pizza. A butt-load of toppings pilled on a crispy crist. Best thing is that you can lay up on the beach all day then have it delivered. Menu and other info posted later.

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The pictures are of the EBA pizza, Everything But Anchovies, and lots of everything. Took about 15 minutes on a weeknight and 25 on weekend to get our pies delivered, always less time than they estimated when ordered. They do deliver to the campground at Topsail, I wonder if they'd deliver straight to the beach, might have to ask next time.

Fudpucker's, Destin, FL

I can't say they have the best seafood in Destin but it is good. We usually have a Pucker (sandwitch) but this time I had clam strips. The appitizers were a buck each, fried jalapanos and cheese fries. All that, my wife's shrimp poboy and drinks for less than $28. It's an interesting place and the service is good, very casual.

Mamaw's Fried Pies, Whitehouse, TX

How many different kinds of fried pies are there? I think you can find most every kind here. They have all the regular fruit pies. Chocolate, lemon and stuff like that. Then they have some for breakfast, sausage and gravyy, bacon and egg and some others I can't remember. Also some Philly-cheese steak and crawfish (yep, crawfish).

I tried the chocolate, lemon, blackberry, apple and a couple that I couldn't identify, they were all good. The fried catfish plate lunch was also good.

One word of warning, they're not stingy with the fillings. If you try to eat a blackberry while driving down the road, it'll run out and look like a jay-bird crapped in your lap.

Mamaw's Web Site

Alba's Italian Kitchen, Gladewater, TX

Thought we'd try something different in Gladewater, mostly just Mexican eating places but we saw this on the corner in part of the old down town and decided to try it. A total of five tables in the place and only four other people eating in there at noon on a Friday but what the heck. Well a little old Italian lady (Alba) comes to the table and waits on us, just as nice as she can be. The food was great, I had portabella mushroom ravioli with spinach. Don't know what the heck a cannoli is but I like it.

Here's an update, Alba now has a website, here's the link: Alba's website

East Texas Burger Co. Mineola, TX

I guess I should'a had a burger but I decided to try the plate lunch. Excellent chicken fried steak and vegetables. It's in downtown Mineola, advertised as best burgers in east Texas. We'll have to go back and try it again. Service was good and all-around cool place.