"Circumnavigating Alabama"

Re:"Circumnavigating Alabama" (Heartbreaksoup)

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:06:54 GMT

Friends, Davwud was not kidding. Dixie Freeze in S. Pittsburg really is a good little place. I highly recommend people traveling between Nashville and 'Nooga swing by.

Re:"Circumnavigating Alabama" (Davwud)

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:18:01 GMT

Heartbreaksoup

We have directions printed and everything's ready to go, thanks. We're going to Little Paul's, one of the Gibson's, Mary's in Gurley and Tate's in Scottsboro.

There is a chance, however, that on our much-more nebulous trip to Nashville (mainly US-41 at a *very* lazy pace and stopping wherever), we might get to stop at that Dixie Freeze in South Pittsburg that you featured at the Food Court a few years ago.

little Paul's is a favourite of ours. Danielle (Paul's wife) is really nice and always has time to tlalk food. I highly recommend the turkey.

I'm not sure if you saw it or not but I blogged about this place.
http://davwudsfoodcourt.b...-for-hunger-pangs.html

DT

Re:"Circumnavigating Alabama" (Foodbme)

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:33:55 GMT

The most poignant statement you make in your whole post is: "Rural Alabama is criminally underrepresented on this site."
Having lived in Nashville & Pensacola, I had numerous occasions to sneak across the state line and eat in some good no-name joints serving great soulfood & BBQ. Unfortunately that was quite a while ago and at that time I wasn't into a Roadfood mentality and didn't make notes and record the names of places.

Re:"Circumnavigating Alabama" (Heartbreaksoup)

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:49:01 GMT

We have directions printed and everything's ready to go, thanks. We're going to Little Paul's, one of the Gibson's, Mary's in Gurley and Tate's in Scottsboro.

There is a chance, however, that on our much-more nebulous trip to Nashville (mainly US-41 at a *very* lazy pace and stopping wherever), we might get to stop at that Dixie Freeze in South Pittsburg that you featured at the Food Court a few years ago.

Re:"Circumnavigating Alabama" (Davwud)

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:31:20 GMT

Are you looking for rec's??

DT

"Circumnavigating Alabama" (Heartbreaksoup)

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:52:13 GMT

Last weekend, I took a great solo tour, west out I-20 from Atlanta to Villa Rica, then found my way to US-278 and began a big loop around Alabama to try some barbecue and a few other places. I took US-278 to Hamilton, then US-431 for a few hundred miles south, hooking up with I-65 a little north of Mobile, returned north to Brewton, then US-31 north back to I-65 at Greenville near Montgomery, then US-231 through Sylacauga and Talladega and picked up I-20 again to go home. These were two great days.

I'm writing it all up for Marie, Let's Eat - part 2 of 7 was posted this morning, but for posterity, these are the places that I visited:

Pig-N-Out Bar-B-Q, Hokes Bluff
Johnny's Bar-B-Q, Cullman
a Jack's fast food place, Double Springs
Buttahachee Bar-B-Que, Hamilton
Plaza BBQ, Guin
Hicks BBQ, Northport
a Taco Casa, Tuscaloosa
Thomas Rib Shack, Tuscaloosa
Smokin' Jack's BBQ, Demopolis
Webb's Cafe, Calvert
Brick Pit, Mobile
George's Old Time BBQ, Brewton
Real Pit, Greenville
Chris' Famous Hotdogs, Montgomery
Hog Rock BBQ, Wetumpka
Miller's BBQ, Talladega

...and in part seven of the blog report, I'll be listing something like seventeen other BBQ restaurants that I drove past but wasn't able to stop. Rural Alabama is criminally underrepresented on this site.

The best meal of them all, by some measure, on the other hand was Brick Pit, which does have a page here on Roadfood. Good gravy, that was amazing. I think the only plate of barbecue that I've ever had that I enjoyed more came from Old Clinton in Gray.

Marie and I will be back in AL this Saturday. We're taking the long way home from Nashville in order to stop by three or four places around Huntsville, where I haven't been since I was about eleven, and then, the school field trip to the rocket center didn't include barbecue on the itinerary!

http://marieletseat.blogspot.com