Restaurants

An open and airy space both inside and out, Jackson's Bar & Bistro offers European and American comfort food in an upbeat setting with an eclectic staff.

Crisp crusts from a searingly hot oven. Bubbly cheeses sprinkled with herbs and spices. Fruit cobbler and gooey s'mores baked to order. Choice meats and fresh-cut vegetables arrayed on a hot pizza, artfully prepared flatbread or Indian naan.

Avo is California shorthand for avocado, one of the iconic products of the Golden State -- the originator, as with so much else, of the local and slow-food movements in the United States.

An old Scottish term for a pour of whiskey, Dram lives up to its name with Birmingham's most extensive collection of bourbon, Scotch and other whiskeys mixed in myriad cocktails or, classically, served neat or on the rocks.