Nothing But Noodles, Birmingham, Alabama

Although a chain restaurant, Nothing But Noodles, offers a wide variety of delicious noodle dishes representative of Asian, Italian, and North American cuisine. The food photo below shows Tofu Pad Thai and "Asian" Salad at the Birmingham, Alabama Nothing But Noodles location. Pad Thai is one of Thailand's "national dishes".

Tofu Pad Thai, Asian Salad, and Iced Tea at Nothing But Noodles

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Hunan Garden, Hoover, Alabama

Hunan Garden is a popular Chinese restaurant in the Birmingham, Alabama suburb of Hoover. This family-owned restaurant has been in business for years (I couldn't find the exact information, but I would guess for about the last twenty years). For standard Chinese dishes, Hunan Garden offers a wide selection with excellent quality and service. The picture below is my favorite entrée at this restaurant: Mongolian Beef. Hunan Garden offers great lunch specials that come with soup, egg roll, rice, and entrée.

Lunch special: Mongolian Beef, fried rice, hot and sour soup (top right), egg roll (not pictured)

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Surin West, Birmingham, Alabama

Surin West is one of the most popular Thai restaurants in Birmingham, Alabama for the past fifteen years. Located in the historic Five Points South neighborhood of Birmingham's Southside, Surin West offers a wide variety of Thai cuisine as well as a large selection of sushi. The photo below is a selection of appetizers that we already began to sample (half-eaten by the time the photo was taken).

Spring rolls, crab angel, and chicken coconut soup

Birmingham, Alabama, view from Vulcan Park on Red Mountain

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Taziki's Mediterranean Cafe, Hoover, Alabama

Taziki's Mediterranean Cafe began in Birmingham and now has multiple locations around the metropolitan area and in a few other places. The photo below is from their Hoover, Alabama location, the largest suburb in Birmingham. Taziki's offers a wide array of Greek and Mediterranean inspired fare from a variety of salads and sandwiches, gyros and wraps, to entrées and daily specials, to desserts.

Herb roasted pork tenderloin, Greek salad, roasted potatoes, asparagus, pita, sweet tea

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The Bright Star, Bessemer, Alabama

The Bright Star, founded in 1907 in Bessemer, is one of the oldest and most popular restaurants in the Birmingham metropolitan area. This Birmingham region contains Alabama's largest city and urban area, with a 2009 metropolitan area population of over 1.2 million. Check out these food photos from The Bright Star.

Greek marinated beef tenderloin tips, Greek potatoes, fried green tomatoes, and sweet tea

In 2010, the James Beard Foundation recognized The Bright Star as an "American Classic Restaurant". Additionally, the restaurant has hosted many celebrities over the years.

Ham with raisin sauce, lima beans, fried squash, yams, cornbread, and sweet tea

Greek marinated beef tenderloin tips, lima beans, collard greens, yams, corn bread, sweet tea

Fried flounder almondine, lima beans, yams, spinach and rice casserole, cornbread, roll, sweet tea

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