Miss Alabama 2023: Her 5 favorite restaurants in Mobile
Brianna Burrell, Miss Alabama 2023, is an avid cook who’s quick to praise the food in her hometown of Mobile.
“It’s amazing to have such fresh cuisine, when they literally catch it in the back of the restaurant and put it straight to your plate,” Burrell, 25, said in an interview with AL.com.
We asked the new Miss Alabama to name some of her favorite restaurants in the Mobile area, and it’s no surprise that most of them specialize in seafood. Here’s what she said:
BOB’S DOWNTOWN RESTAURANT
Where: 263 St. Francis St. Mobile.
Menu includes: Seafood omelets, alligator sausage and pancakes, breakfast tacos, French toast, biscuits and sausage gravy, shrimp and smoked gouda cheese grits.
Miss Alabama says: “Bob’s Downtown, the most amazing breakfast you can ever imagine.”
Erica Barrett stands in front of her restaurant, SOCU Southern Kitchen and Oyster Bar, on Dauphin Street in downtown Mobile, Alabama. (Photo by Michelle Matthews/[email protected])
SOCU SOUTHERN KITCHEN & OYSTER BAR
Where: 455 Dauphin St., Mobile.
Menu includes: Chargrilled oysters, shrimp and grits, crab and shrimp dip, Oceans (made with salmon, shrimp, scallops, crawfish gravy).
Miss Alabama says: “(Erica Barrett is) a hometown chef who was emphasized on the Food Network. Her establishment is delicious. She also has an establishment in Birmingham and in Atlanta. It’s always amazing to see her spread that Mobile cuisine to other places.”
TAMARA’S DOWNTOWN
Where: 104 N. Section St., Fairhope.
Menu includes: Fried calamari, crab meat pie, escargot, snow crab legs, BBQ shrimp, blue crab claws, gumbo made with oysters, shrimp, crab and crawfish.
Miss Alabama says: “I love Tamara’s in downtown Fairhope.”
THE NOBLE SOUTH
Where: 203 Dauphin St., Mobile.
Menu includes: Redfish, shrimp and grits, Chesapeake Bay scallops, pickled shrimp, fried catfish, fried oyster Benedict.
Restaurateur Pete Blohme shows off an item that epitomizes Squid Ink’s playful approach to multicultural culinary traditions: Paella fritters. (Lawrence Specker | [email protected])Lawrence Specker | [email protected]
SQUID INK EATS & DRINKS
Where: 102 Dauphin St., Mobile.
Menu includes: Seafood pasta, shrimp scampi, fried calamari, tuna poke bowl, fresh fish sandwich, shrimp po’ boy.
Miss Alabama says: “I love The Noble South, Squid Ink — all of these are seafood places. So if you don’t like seafood, I’m sorry, but they do have other options. But I am a seafood girl. I could eat it every day.”
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