Mardi Gras a few doors down: How is Mobile adapting to paradeless Carnival? | Mardi Gras
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MOBILE, Ala. – For the past three years, Chris Andrews would rent out a historic home in downtown Mobile, where participants on his food tours stopped to watch a Mardi Gras parade while dining on King Cake and champagne.
This year, the Bienville Bites food tour features a socially aloof murder mystery and scavenger hunt, as well as a Carnival brunch. A “Party like a Mobilian” food box filled with MoonPies and other treats is offered for those who stay away from Mobile during Carnival season.
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For the past three years, Chris Andrews would rent out a historic home in downtown Mobile where participants in his food tours would stop to watch a Mardi Gras parade while dining on King Cake and champagne.
This year, Bienville Bites food tour is offering a socially distanced murder mystery and scavenger hunt as well as a Carnival brunch tour. A “Party like a Mobilian” food box filled with MoonPies and other goodies, is offered for those staying away from Mobile during the Carnival season.
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Serda Brewing cofounder John Serda, left, has been working with gypsy brewer Simon Sothras, right, since early summer.Lawrence Specker | LSpecker@AL.com
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“It was not,” agrees John Serda, straight-faced.
Then the two crack up.
In part it’s happy laughter, and with good reason: After a tough effort to reinvent itself, Serda Brewing is putting new beers on store shelves. There’s another note in there too: They’re laughing the way people do when they’ve been through an ordeal and think they can see the light at the end of the tunnel.