Now closed, a beloved Birmingham oyster dive and burger bar looks toward the future
Updated Feb 06, 2021;
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The night before their last day of dining room service on New Year’s Eve, the staff at Fancy’s on 5th weren’t focused on planning a grand New Year’s Eve toast, nor had they even planned a special celebratory menu.
The plan that night would be “dinner as usual,” restaurant owners Paget Pizitz and Harriet Reis told AL.com in an interview the evening before New Year’s Eve.
“We’re not doing anything special for New Year’s Eve other than what we do every day, which is tremendously special,” Pizitz said in late December.
From bakeries to fine dining, here are 54 Alabama restaurants that closed in 2020
Updated Jan 01, 2021;
Posted Jan 01, 2021
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic forced Z’s Restaurant, the downtown Birmingham eatery famous for its bean pies, soul food and homemade ice cream, to close its doors in late April 2020. (Courtesy: Carolyn Bolivar Hameen)
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2020 was a rough year for restaurants and that’s putting it mildly.
The year started out with the usual ebbs and flows of a competitive dining industry. In Birmingham, for example, Pihakis Restaurant Group was preparing to eventually shutter its location of Mile-End Deli in the city’s downtown area and transition the building to another one of its concepts: a Hero Doughnuts & Buns.