We asked Birmingham-area residents, Where’s a place you visited as a child that you remember fondly?
DARIAN TRAVIS: “I remember going to Dauphin Island [Alabama] throughout my childhood. My grandparents lived there and I would visit them every summer. I love that place, it was beautiful and we would chill on the beach and I even got stung by a jellyfish once but it was worth it because I would have so much fun.”
QADEEM HASSAN: “The Portofino Island Resort in Pensacola, Florida. I went there throughout my childhood from age 7 up to when I was 15. It was just always a family getaway every summer . . . because it was a nice resort and it had a pool and a water park… I just loved it.”
Unfortunately for some restaurants and the foodies who frequent them, the DBPR s increased activity last month led to five temporary closures.
Between Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, 243 restaurants, food trucks or businesses with concessions passed their initial February inspections. More than half of those establishments had even better news to share with their staffs, as 129 of them passed with zero violations.
But 37 restaurants between the two counties failed their first inspection. Five restaurants three in Escambia and two in Santa Rosa had to briefly close in February for receiving the dreaded emergency order recommendation, which comes with a temporary closure.