Cuisine Review

May 06 2008 – Downtown continues to boom. Another restaurant has recently opened on Royal Street and every time I go in it is packed to the gills.

Apr 22 2008 – I am always on the lookout for good pizza. For a while, on my few trips out to WeMo, I noticed Fox’s Pizza Den from the corner of my eye – in a nondescript shopping center at the corner of Cottage Hill and Azalea – wondering if it was worth a taste.

Apr 08 2008 – The Blind Mule is making some noise in LoDa with a menu that is interesting, eclectic and exciting.

Mar 25 2008 – Earlier this year I wrote a column on the places where I eat on a regular basis.

Mar 11 2008 – It is exciting to see continuing growth in the number of local restaurants starting up.

Feb 25 2008 – It was a year ago that unfortunately Loretta’s closed their doors after many years of success.

Feb 12 2008 – Sending food back need not be a rude experience. Kinnon Phillips tells you all you need to know about getting the food and service you deserve.

Jan 28 2008 – There has been much buzz – positive and negative, about Oysterella’s.

Jan 15 2008 – The typical question I get over and over is where I eat, or where someone should go.

Jan 01 2008 – Galatoire’s restaurant, on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, has been a traditional dining spot for my family.

Dec 18 2007 – This is one of those reviews I have kept to myself for a while.

Dec 04 2007 – Once upon a time the Riverview Plaza might not have been a place where you’d want to dine, but Kinnon Phillips says all that has changed.

Nov 20 2007 – It is not every day that you can have an altruistic meal.

Nov 06 2007 – In my mind no one does breakfast better than Southerners, or the French.

Oct 23 2007 – Don’t you wish you could be a child again? To be able to sleep at a moment’s notice and completely go into a coma, and then wake up to your desired meal?

Oct 09 2007 – Outside it is still a bit hot and the humidity can be high.

Sep 25 2007 – Typically I wait a decent amount of time before trying a new restaurant.

Sep 11 2007 – I highly recommend a roll. I mean a rolled sandwich.

Aug 28 2007 – It is quite trendy in the other LA and New York City for the in-crowd to hit greasy burger joints these days.

Aug 14 2007 – When I travel to another city, I spend a lot of time beforehand finding out what to do, and more importantly where the locals eat.

Jul 31 2007 – Clinking symbols, dog-like yelps and plenty of skin startled us when a group recently went over the bay to try Poseidon’s Mediterranean restaurant.

Jul 17 2007 – I have had a great many incredible meals lately, all out of town.

Jul 03 2007 – Despite my pining for the new, trendy and uptown – like most people, nostalgia, tradition and the past beckon from time to time.

Jun 19 2007 – Birmingham is still blessed with good, local chef talent, along with mentors and entrepreneurs ready to provide opportunities for new restaurants with the latest in cooking.

Jun 05 2007 – Music blaring, cruising at a steady pace across the Bayway, I drove with a certain expectation, yet trepidation arose the closer we drew to the Eastern Shore Centre.

May 22 2007 – There are the beginnings of a steadier march of restaurants into downtown.

May 08 2007 – Much has been said already about the Renaissance at Old Shell Road and Florida.

Apr 25 2007 – There is a little white clapboard building hidden behind the Daphne Post Office that has attracted some attention.

Apr 10 2007 – Over 15 years ago when I moved back to Mobile, it was not with enthusiasm.

Mar 28 2007 – They’re starving on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and need your help.

Mar 13 2007 – Not that I am all that influential, but here is yet another restaurant that I write about with tremendous hesitation.

Feb 27 2007 – A cadre of local barbecue judges have spoken and picked their favorite local restaurant, as well as naming some of their favorite dishes from the others.

Feb 13 2007 – I came in from the cold and rain on MLK Avenue the other day.

Jan 30 2007 – Not that I minded, but my kids made us do it. I verbalized all week that I had no idea where to eat next.

Jan 16 2007 – Well, all the pretty people have a metropolitan place to eat.

Jan 02 2007 – Nostalgia got the best of me. If you ever wonder how I select places to eat, there is no formula.

Dec 19 2006 – While there were no earthshaking moments or movements in our local food and restaurant scene, some events and happenings have cleared the path a bit more, while others came right behind and spread crap all over it.

Dec 05 2006 – By Billy Curtright Lagniappe columnist I’ll be filling in this week as a guest restaurant reviewer while Kinnon takes a well-deserved break.

Nov 21 2006 – Just off the infamous thoroughfare of ozone depletion known as Airport Boulevard, there are some good, but quite inconvenient restaurants.

Nov 08 2006 – When I was little, my great aunt would come out to my house and we would take the bus downtown.

Oct 25 2006 – As any reader of this column can likely tell, I like to find the unknown places and dives.

Oct 10 2006 – I completely identified when a friend asked me who I was reviewing next and her response to my answer was "it is unbelievable to me; it seems that everyone in their brother is telling me about this place." For months, at least once a week someone has demanded I travel out to TiCo and eat at the Boiling Pot.

Sep 27 2006 – This past week I tried to do a full review of several places but came up short on information both times.

Sep 13 2006 – Oftentimes I lament the fact there is hardly any place to get good grilled seafood, especially fish.

Aug 29 2006 – Night after night, some manage to keep tables full, make a decent – maybe not enormous – living and have fun cooking.

Aug 16 2006 – Home cooking. What does that term mean to you – is that out of the house cooking – in a restaurant, your church or Grandma’s house?

Aug 01 2006 – A gymnastics center is not my typical idea of a place to eat.

Jul 19 2006 – A vast ocean exists in our area, between cheap eats and those elegantly priced.

Jul 05 2006 – Bilotti's Review Webster’s New World Dictionary defines an expectation as "a thing looked forward to." Expectations have been a recurring theme for me lately, and while I tend to keep them to nothing when eating out, it has been hard.

Jun 21 2006 – We have no "true" delis in town or at least none that have come to my attention.

Jun 06 2006 – Too much buzz can create high expectations. For example, I rarely fully enjoy a movie I know too much about before watching.

May 23 2006 – What is it with all of you hounding me to write a bad review?

May 09 2006 – Sometimes I overdo it on the eating. I arrived at Will Hughes Catering, on Main Street in Daphne across from Manci’s, fresh from a run and a 20 minute lunchtime drive.

Apr 26 2006 – You may think you know everything about The Dew Drop Inn, but Kinnon Phillips sheds a little more light on Mobile’s most famous restaurant.

Apr 11 2006 – I promise to go back to another continent of food for a while after this column, but I had such a stellar sushi experience that I could not pass up telling you about it.

Mar 29 2006 – I have done two Asians in a month. Two Asian-style restaurants that is.

Mar 14 2006 – As I have said in this column many times before, the instant you walk into an ethnic restaurant and see it packed with people of that same ethnicity, you know it is going to be good.

Mar 01 2006 – Only in the Deep South would you find ethnic food served by an overfriendly country girl.

Feb 14 2006 – Daytime eating in Fairhope conjures up the image of "ladies who lunch," you know the type – they look like walking clothes hangers?

Jan 31 2006 – You only have to go west of The Hill to feel like you’ve gone South of the Border at Los Arcos.

Jan 18 2006 – So much for my healthy eating. It lasted all of seven days.

Jan 04 2006 – I ran seven miles today. I had to. All of the salt in my body has blown me up, and I have a splitting headache from sugar withdrawals.

Dec 21 2005 – There were no mirrors on the ceiling, no champagne on ice.

Dec 07 2005 – What could be sweeter than being greeted for lunch with strawberry tea?