The story behind this essential Alabama soul food restaurant
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
Posted Apr 29, 2021
A line of customers starts to form at Eagle s Restaurant at 10 o clock on a Sunday morning 30 minutes before the restaurant opens. Regulars know to get there early to beat the Sunday lunch rush.(Bob Carlton/bcarlton@al.com)
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The regulars know to get here early on Sunday morning.
By 10 o’clock, a half-hour before Eagle’s Restaurant opens its takeout windows, a socially distant line has already started forming, stretching from the front of the little cinderblock building down 16th Street North toward Birmingham’s ACIPCO pipe plant.