Foodie TV personality Andrew Zimmern calls Birmingham a “best food city” in Tasting Table

Four-time James Beard Foundation honoree and TV personality Andrew Zimmern named Birmingham — “as a place to go on your next foodie road trip.”

Tasting Table Interview

In an exclusive interview with the popular and trendy culinary digital site Tasting Table, Zimmern names The Magic City, alongside Minneapolis, his hometown, and the two Portlands – Maine and Oregon – as cities making a big impact on the American food scene.

Zimmern is no stranger to Birmingham. He speaks about our town from personal experience. Over the years, several of our most iconic eateries have been featured on his television programs, including on a 2018 Travel Channel episode of The Zimmern List which featured:

• Eagle’s Restaurant
• Miss Myra’s Pit Bar-B-Que
• Highlands Bar & Grill
• Ovenbird
• Saw’s Juke Joint
• The Market at Pepper Place

A few years back, he also produced a short 4 minute video clip for the Travel Channel called Andrew’s Top 5 for Birmingham.

During that segment he profiled: 

• Eagle’s Restaurant
• Miss Myra’s
• Ovenbird & Hot & Hot’s Chef Chris Hastings
• George Sarris at The Fish Market
• Nikki’s West
• Jim & Nick’s – Nick Pihakis  

Birmingham’s Food Scene is on a Roll

The world is getting out about Birmingham’s food scene.  Earlier this year, Fodor, the well respected travel publication, named The Magic City to its “10 U.S.Cities with a Surprisingly Good Food Scene.”

And of course earlier in 2022, Automatic Seafood’s Adam Evans won the James Beard Award for the Best Chef in the South.

Now thanks to Andrew Zimmern and Tasting Table, which is visited by 18 million monthly readers, the word is getting out.

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