Walton's Restaurant

Walton's is a country fish house, their BBQ and steaks are suppose to be good but we stick with the catfish. They advertise that they have the best hushpuppies in the the south and I'd argee.

They bring you out a basket of hushpuppies before the meal, all you want actually. You'll find 2 bottles of white stuff on the table, one of course to tartar sauce. Get the other one and put it on the puppies, it's some good stuff. A word of warning though, don't ask the waitress what the white stuff is, she'll look at you like you're a dumb ass and tell you "white sauce".

It was a 'fried' day for me. This is a small plate of fillets, plenty after all the hush puppies I'd just eaten.

Walton's Restaurant1205 Highway 101, Rogersville, AL

Tel: (256) 247-0696

The Tiger Hut, Rogersville, AL

Old timey drive-in, dive and ice cream. If you want a good-greasey hamburger, milk shake and onion rings, this is the place. It's about 30 minutes east of Florence and right on 72. I dare ya to order a large soft serve cone....

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Rocking Chair Restaurant

On the south side of Tuscumbia, AL, the Rocking Chair has a pretty good plate lunch. Think 'Cracker Barrel', maybe not quite as good but half the price. The daily special is $4.99, other plate lunches are $5.99, you can't beat that. Serve your regular country vegetables and 4 or 5 different meats.

Rocking Chair Restaurant

256-381-6105

814 Highway 72 W

Tuscumbia, AL 35674

Rosie's Cantina

There are 2 loctions in Huntsville, this is the one on Memorial. Real good food, we had the chicken quesadillas (off the lunch menue), should have just split one. Chips & salsa were exellent, a little different than what we're used to. I didn't get the check out a beer but my wife gave the frozen margaritas the thumbs up. We'll be back to try this again.

The Original Oyster House

Fresh raw oysters and cold beer. Need I say more. The Original Oyster House is the place to go for raw oysters. Cocktail sauce comes with a side of horse radish, man, it's good.

http://www.originaloysterhouse.com/

There are 2 locations, one in Mobile (I've never been to that one) and one in Gulf Shores, on the west side of 59. You can't miss it, if you get to the beach, you've gone too far. During peak season be prepared to wait for a table, last time we waited for an hour and a half (at the bar) but it is worth it, all the food is good.

Keylime Pie, don't order it, it's terrible.

Yea, right, it's almost as good as the beer.

"Overlooking scenic Big Lagoon"

701 Hwy 59, Bayou Village

Phone: (251) 948-2445

Fax: (251) 948-2446

Lambert's Cafe

When they say "Home of the Throwed Roll", they mean it. The only way you're gonna get on is to catch it or pick it up after it smacks you in the side of the head. I have one request for you when you go, if you have kids that can't catch for crap, don't ask the roll dude to keep chunking rolls at them. Somebody else might want one and if your goofy kid drops half a pan on the floor, it just aint right, there too good to waste.

http://www.throwedrolls.com/

The food is great, think Cracker Barrel but 10X better. Southern foods and reasonable prices. Most meals come with a couple of vegetables plus rolls and Pass-Arounds. Pass-Arounds are fried okra, fried potatoes, peas and a bunch of other stuff they bring around several times, you can have as much and as many as you want.

I've eaten at all 3 locations, Foley every year. Best thing to do is have a late breakfast then hit Lambert's about 4:00 for an early supper, just skip lunch. It's best to be good and hungry plus sometimes there's a wait to be seated.

The Shrimp Basket

Shrimp Basket

There are 8 or 10 locations within about 60 miles of Gulf Shores. This one is on the west side of 59 right in Foley, AL.

http://www.shrimpbasket.com/

Extremely casual place, nothing fancy just good food. Same owners as Mikee's and food is about as good.

They have a "all you can eat" special most nights.

Great place to eat on Friday night when there is an hour wait at some other places and you want good food and a cold beer. Make sure to pick up a bottle of their hot sauce.

hot sauce

Burris Farm Market

Burris Farm Market

Highway 59, Loxley, AL

251-964-6464

On the west side of 59, just a few miles south of I-10.

Everything here you'd expect to find at a farm market. All types of fruits and vegetables, honey and jams plus salsa/relish, plants and yada, yada, yada. You get the idea, they got it here. We stopped one year to get some peaches or something and found that they had a bakery/ice cream shop in the back, now we make a point to stop anytime we're close. They have all types of home made bread, cobbler and ice cream. About the best milk shake I know of, they know that to make a chocolate shake, you start with vanilla ice cream. Most people think you use chocolate ice cream to make a chocolate shake, a good shake is vanilla with chocolate suryp.

Chocolate shake and cobbler with ice cream.

Mikee's Sea Food

"A place of Seafood" is the slogan, could be THE place for seafood. Great food, home-made salad dressing, sides include turnip greens, baked beans, new potaoes and corn nuggets. Small bar, always crowded, even when not so many people there, very small place. Will be a wait to eat during busy season. Laid back atmosphere, very casual and kinda loud. Some might say it's just above a "hole-in-the-wall", I'd have to agree and say that I'll be there everytime I'm in GS.

Links

website:http://www.mikeesseafood.com/

menu:http://www.mikeesseafood.com/menu.htm

map:mapquest

2nd Avenue, East 1st Street

Gulf Shores, Alabama

251-948-6452

In Gulf Shores, you gotta go here.