![]() Heading south and all the way east, seek out the small city of Eufaula and Barb's Country Kitchen. ![]() The state capital of Montgomery might appear to be half asleep at all times, but that's only until you set your eyes on a busy morning at the classic Davis Cafe, a family-owned soul food spot with all the appeal of your typical church basement, and some of the most delicious hotcakes around. Steak and eggs, pork chops and eggs, sausage and eggs, sweet rolls, grits, groups of people who know each other, talking way too loud this early in the morning, about life, and about Birmingham things, and about how their eggs were today - this is one of those places where you don't just get breakfast, you also get a show. One could safely say, however, that the eating landscape in Birmingham would look very different now, and there almost certainly would be no Niki's West, a mid-century steak joint that is also a cafeteria, which also serves breakfast from bright and early, most every morning. There is a distinct possibility that boom-era Birmingham would have figured out how to feed itself, had the Greek restaurateurs failed to show up, joining all of the others that worked so hard to turn a relative nowhere into an industrial powerhouse, into the Pittsburgh of the South.
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