Pappadeaux plans to put a location in Birmingham

they opened one where i grew up in texas which is a town about the size of bham. it has done very well. last ate there at the houston airport around christmas and it was still good.

It was opened back during their pre-Piccadilly days and was packed every night according to everyone up here. Use to throw block parties in the parking lot when LSU played Bama up here. Of course went to shite when piccadilly acquired Ralph's.

Yeah that location is good. The fountains has a good after work crowd. Stayed out there for a week back 2 years ago.

Overly expensive. I suppose if you can't get decent seafood anywhere else, Pappa's or Pappadeaux's would be a good option.

That family used to have a good thing going, but they are moving ever closer to Landry's in my book.

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Only ate there once in Kemah Texas. I got the ribeye med rare and it was great.

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Only ate there once in Kemah Texas

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Place is gone now.


Ike was a vengeful mother fricker.

Sheek,

andouille was the one I told you about. Always running down Bham on this board claiming there are no restaurants with edible food. Ridiculous. The guy even thinks Highlands Bar and Grill, Hot n Hot Fish Club, Ocean, Cafe Dupont, etc all suck.

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The guy even thinks Highlands Bar and Grill, Hot n Hot Fish Club, Ocean, Cafe Dupont, etc all suck.

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You certainly are one to exaggeration, never once said anything negative about those places and a few more. Have been to Highlands, will likely go to HotnHot next trip. Every city of more than 100k can start supporting a good place or 2, the problem is the middle and the lack of a food culture. I've been traveling to B'ham for 15 years, I know the territory.

Not going over this ground again, spew all you want.

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Every locale has a food culture. Whether you like that culture or not is a different story.

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Exactly. The problem is andouille seems to think Birmingham is unique in not having a distinctive food culture when the majority of places in America don't have a unique food culture. Most cities are simply copying the good things from different food cultures. Bham does really well and has a lot of locally owned restaurants that have Greek influence (Bright Star, Fish Market, Sarris, Zoes Kitchen (chain based in Bham), etc, etc). There are also numerous locally owned and successful bbq places, meat and 3s, and restaurants that specialize in American food.

Most places don't have the unique Creole and Cajun food culture of New Orleans and South Louisiana because even many large cities (outside of a few major cities like NYC, Chicago, San Fran, LA, and Miami) don't even have a unique food culture. It's usually a mixture of several different well established food traditions. Bham does just fine in the restaurant department. There are good locally owned places if you look for them.

P.S. It seems that Birmingham and Baton Rouge in particular get picked on disproportionately for their "chain restaurants" yet the same people that do this rave about the culinary greatness that is Popeye's chicken or Cane's chicken fingers. Relax N.O. homers, Popeye's and Cane's are great. I'm just using them to point out the double standard homerism of the food snobs on this board

Had never heard of it till I had a layover at the Houston Airport. I thought it was pretty average, not bad, not great.