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The Garage serves a limited menu of thick sandwiches served on [[Big Sky Bread Company]] bread.
The Garage serves a limited menu of thick sandwiches served on [[Big Sky Bread Company]] bread.


In [[2003]] ''GQ'' magazine named The Garage Café one of its "10 Bars Worth Flying To". It has since been written up in ''Esquire'' and other publications as well. The bar's resident [[Garage Kitty]] was struck by a car and killed in [[2007]]. In [[2010]] rumors swirled about the possibility of [[Hot and Hot Fish Club]] owner [[Chris Hastings]] taking over the space for a new restaurant.
In [[2003]] ''GQ'' magazine named The Garage Café one of its "10 Bars Worth Flying To". It has since been written up in ''Esquire'' and other publications as well. The bar's resident [[Garage Kitty]] was struck by a car and killed in [[2007]]. In [[2010]] rumors swirled about the possibility of [[Hot and Hot Fish Club]] owner [[Chris Hastings]] taking over part of the building, including the courtyard which is not leased to the Cafe, for a new restaurant.


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 19:45, 4 October 2010

Garage Café's courtyard in May 2002

The Garage Café is a bar and sandwich shop located at 2304 10th Terrace South off Highland Avenue in Southside. The bar, opened in 1994 by Jimmy Watson, occupies part of a former complex of 1930s-era covered garage stalls arrayed around a courtyard.

The rest of the stalls are filled with antiques for sale by landlord Fritz Woehle. The bar's seating extends into the courtyard where wisteria vines shade casually-arranged piles of old lawn statues, architectural fragments and plumbing fixtures.

The Garage serves a limited menu of thick sandwiches served on Big Sky Bread Company bread.

In 2003 GQ magazine named The Garage Café one of its "10 Bars Worth Flying To". It has since been written up in Esquire and other publications as well. The bar's resident Garage Kitty was struck by a car and killed in 2007. In 2010 rumors swirled about the possibility of Hot and Hot Fish Club owner Chris Hastings taking over part of the building, including the courtyard which is not leased to the Cafe, for a new restaurant.

References

  • Harris, Neely ( ) "Garage Café". Esquire magazine.
  • McAlister, Laura, Joe O'Donnell, Mary Ellen Stancill and Carla Jean Whitley (2009) "The Drinker's Dozen" Birmingham magazine
  • Geiss, Chuck (September 30, 2010) "Naked Birmingham" Black & White

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