Automatic Seafood and Oysters has definitely caught on. Since opening in Birmingham in 2019, the restaurant from chef Adam Evans and his wife and designer Suzanne Humphries Evans has attracted and wowed with its inviting space and amazing food. It’s not just patrons who are impressed. The prestigious James Beard Awards had Automatic Seafood and Oysters among its […]

Roy Wood Jr. had a good amount of success on radio and doing standup comedy in Birmingham. But to reach his full celebrity status, he had to travel to New York. The actor, comedian and filmmaker grew up in Birmingham without knowing the variety of career paths available to him or how to pursue them. These […]

Wine needs a good aging to be its best. The same can be said of The Wine Loft, a pioneering destination that was once an oasis in a sea of vacant buildings but is now surrounded by other bars and restaurants that bring vibrancy as well as competition. Owner Mike Dunnavant now has 14 years […]

Birmingham’s Atomic Lounge is a bar, to be sure. There are drinks with fun names and fine booze with regulars destressing and unwinding. And if that was all Atomic Lounge is, that just might be enough. But Atomic Lounge is really an experience and the bar is a component of that experience. Husband and wife owners Feizal […]