Bright Star Restaurant, Bessemer, AL Report #589

I was up in Birmingham, AL., back in March. On the way back to New Orleans, by a stroke of pure luck, we ended up stopping at a place in Mississippi called Weidman’s for lunch, which ended up being the oldest restaurant in the state! It was a pretty good lunch. That got me to…

Mandina’s Restaurant, New Orleans, LA Report #507

This place has been around a long time. In fact, it’ll make its 100th birthday in a decade. I haven’t been here since back in the early 1990’s. A friend of mine and I used to work in the area and spent many a night after work closing down the bar here. Around that same…