Daniel George restaurant, a popular neighborhood restaurant in Mountain Brook, will open for weekday lunch starting Monday, Jan. 18. Lunch will be served 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; lunch menus will be available on their web site starting Jan. 5. No reservations...

The New York Times this week featured the towering layer cakes of Southern Alabama. "All across the South at Christmas, layer cakes parade across virtually every sideboard. But in the small towns of southeast Alabama, they are more than holiday...

* Mudtown in Cahaba Heights is celebrating its fifth anniversary with an updated menu, featuring fried calamari served with green onion and roasted garlic aoli and housemade marinara; wild caught Crimson Snapper available grilled or fried; and previous...

It really can't be just a week until Thanksgiving, can it? A roundup of some Thanksgiving-related news that's crossed our desk: * Reservations are filling up quickly at Veranda on Highland, where the Thanksgiving Day menu includes traditional...

The recent four-star review of ZaZa in the Birmingham News' City Scene reminded me, I've been meaning to post something about the wonderful lunch we had there last month.  The owners both have worked for Frank Stitt at Chez FonFon. But they've taken...