Order the Snapper Throats at the Bright Star

Alabama’s oldest restaurant, running since 1907, and the tell is the tile — the original mosaic floor and the murals a traveling European artist painted around 1915 are still there, in a dining room that smells like it’s been seasoning for a century. The Greek family that’s run it for four generations never fully committed to being a Greek restaurant or a Southern one, so you get snapper Greek-style and beef tenderloin on the same menu as fried okra.