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Birmingham, Alabama
Restaurants - Our Recommendations. Enjoy a variety of Birmingham, Alabama
restaurants to suit every individual appetite and taste. The Hotel Highland will help you start your day off right providing an extended continental
breakfast 7 am until 10 am daily. Our extended
breakfast includes an espresso
coffee bar with gourmet
coffees and espresso, fresh pastries and fruit, as well as an assortment of muffins and cereals. For
lunch and
dinner, venture out into the downtown Birmingham area and check out these preferred dining options, all within walking distance: Chez Fonfon - authentic French
Bistro focusing on French provincial food and wine - the French equivalent of the friendly neighborhood
bar. 2007 11 th Avenue South 205-939-3221. Cobb Lane
Restaurant. features year-around outdoor dining in a heated tent or indoors in one the European style
dining rooms. Specialties include She-Crab Soup, Mrs. Cobb's Famous Yeast Rolls and Chicken Divan. 1 Cobb Lane South. homemade Pizza's which include ingredients from the simple to the sublime. With a full
bar this is the perfect pause for refreshment and relaxation. 2012 Magnolia Avenue South 205-930-9971. Five Points
Grill -
restaurant bar with varied nighttime entertainment offering a delicious Saturday and Sunday Brunch. 1035 20th Street South 205-933-6363. Highlands
Bar Grill. combines the simple elegance of country French cooking with rich southern tradition to create a dining experience among the best. One of the most consistently interesting and delightful places to dine in this country, raves Bon Appetit Magazine. 2011 11th Avenue South 205-939-1400. Millie's and Billy's Square One. a supper
club for fine dining with an assortment of appetizers, salads, soups and entrees, along with entertainment. 2012 Magnolia Avenue,,
Suite R1. rated 4 stars by the Birmingham News, Ocean offers fresh seafood in a comfortable, contemporary, upscale atmosphere. AAA-Four Diamond/Four Star Award. 1218 20th Street South 205-933-0999 /. La Mesa
Grill Cantina. “La Mesa” translates to “The Table” in English, and offers a gathering place for family and friends to enjoy fine food,
drinks, and memories. The menu is Latin inspired with traditional Spanish quisines, unique
cocktails, and tapas
bar. 1101 20th Street South 205-933-1544
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Suites. Vulcan Park and The Birmingham Zoo. While you're in town, don't miss the Birmingham Zoo, Vulcan Park or the Botanical
Gardens. Birmingham Jefferson Civic
Center Hotel. Whether you are attending a
conference,
convention, concert or other event in Birmingham, you'll find our hotel convenient to the Civic
Center and downtown. Area Sports-University of Alabama Football. The Crimson Tide, UAB athletics and the Talladega Super speedway attract sports fans from all over the state. Indulge yourself in your favorite sport while traveling for
business or pleasure on the premier Alabama
Golf Trail. Our fine city offers plenty of opportunities to refresh your wardrobe and your home - or to simply spoil yourself or someone you know with something new and exciting. The Hotel Highland is one of the closest hotels to the University of Alabama Birmingham, making it ideal for parents, guests, alumni and sports fans. Hotel near Birmingham AL
Airport. You'll find our location convenient to the Birmingham, AL
Airport. Read our tips on getting around town here. Birmingham International
Airport Directions. How to get to the Hotel Highland from the Birmingham
Airport from Atlanta, Montgomery, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa. THe Hotel Highland
Bar. Begin or end your evening at the intimate martini
bar located in our hotel lobby. Birmingham Alabama
Restaurants. There are a variety of downtown Birmingham dining options within walking distance of the hotel.
Birmingham AL Hotel Specials. To reserve and/or discover our many other packages that are available, please contact The Hotel Highland at Five Points South directly. Leonardo and Birmingham Experience. Book the Leonardo and Birmingham Experience. The Birmingham Museum of Art will host one of the most significant groups of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci to be loaned in the US, from September 28, 2008 through November 8, 2008. Come experience Leonardo and Birmingham at one of Birmingham's premier boutique hotels with our Leonardo and Birmingham Experience package featuring two martinis at the H Martini
Bar, complimentary continental
breakfast, complimentary valet
parking and free high speed
internet access. Going Topless In Birmingham. Book Going Topless in Birmingham Package. VIP Welcome and Escort to your luxurious king
suite with Godiva chocolate truffle
turn-down service, and chilled Dom Perignon.An exciting night out on the town for you and 10 of your closest friends including unlimited martinis at the H
Bar,
dinner at one of Five Points South District's famed
restaurants with 2500
dinner voucher. Next you will be greeted by your own personal Mercedes instructor to offer full detail on you 2008 convertible CLK Class with its massive 475-horsepower V-8. Finally visit Birmingham 10 more times with the 10 future complimentary nights at The Hotel Highland, our way to keep you Going Topless. Luxurious Contemporary King
Suite. Complimentary Morning Essentials Continental
Breakfast Chilled bottle of Champagne Two Champagne Glasses One Dozen Red Roses Strawberries with velvety whipped cream Kama Sutra Love Essential Package: this sensual set includes a sweet sprinkling of sweet edible Honey Dust, Spicy Oil of Love, Silky Love Liquid and a personal Tickler Feather Chocolate Lovers Dice 52 weeks of Naughty Nights. Luxurious Contemporary King
Suite Complimentary Morning Essentials Continental
Breakfast Chilled Bottle of Champagne Two Champagne Glasses One Dozen Red Roses Strawberries with velvety whipped cream and rich chocolate sauce 365 Sweet Nothings to tell your spouse how important they are to you! Packages must be reserved a minimum of 72 hours in advance. Taxes are not included. Due to the seasonal availability and availability of some items, the hotel reserves the right to replace said article(s) with something of equal value.
Birmingham Alabama Nightlife Entertainment. Live entertainment, Rock, Blues, Americana. No food served 1124 20 th Street South 205-933-1336. Designed to be an island
party every night! Dancing, food, and big
screen TV's. 1016 20 th Street South 205-241-8006. Late night crowds at this dance
club. Retro dance
party with music from the 70's, 80's and early 90's. Cover charge does apply. 2001 Highland Avenue South 205-933-2778
www.bellbottomsal.com. A social tavern with an extensive line of beer and liquor.
Patio seating with inside large
screen TV's, dart boards,
video golf and bowling. No cover. 1128 20 th Street South 205-933-4030
www.davespubsouthside.com. A supper
club for fine dining with an assortment of appetizers, salads, soups and entrees, along with entertainment. 2012 Magnolia Avenue,
Suite R1
www.milliesandbillyssquare1.net. Upstairs, downstairs and outside
bars and bands. Live music featuring national regional and local bands. 2001 15 th Avenue South 205-933-1031
www.zydecobirmingham.com
History of the Hotel Highland and Pickwick Hotel and
Suites, Birmingham. In the 1920s the Medical Arts Building craze took Southern cities by storm including Birmingham, AL, more specifically the Five Points South area in 1931. Despite the Depression, which had devastated the local economy, the Kamram Grotto, a fraternal order of Freemasons, in that year built an eight-story
office tower exclusively for the doctors and surgeons of Birmingham. Designed by local architect Charles H. McCauley, the Medical Arts Building was the first of its type in the city. The lower floor was occupied by
shops and the Birmingham Apothecary, which carried through the professional identity of the building by selling only drugs and medical related items. McCauley studied Medical Arts Towers in Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville and St. Louis, adapting their best features into an Art Deco design of brick stone, and terra cotta, with aluminum spandrels beneath the windows. He incorporated a design motif symbolizing Five Points on the modernistic elevator doors of black and silver with the medical symbol. The building was erected in just six months with no overtime, which set a record in the city. That same year the Kamram Grotto financed the conversion and expansion of a
garage around the corner on Magnolia Avenue into the Pickwick
Club. No-one is quite sure why the Kamram Grotto named their dance hall the Pickwick
Club. The building changed ownership in the early 1930s and Walker Mattison managed the popular entertainment spot from 1935 to 1951. Many clubs and organizations held dances and gatherings at the Pickwick
Club, popular partially because of its Five Points location offered
parking, convenient access to streetcar lines and the well lighted streets. The interior was always decorated thematically: one year nautical, the next sunny Florida. The total effect was Depression Era flamboyance! Hosting everything from religious revivals to Fourth of July sunrise dances, it featured the big-band sound, revolving glitter ball suspended from the ceiling, and its hobby horse for the daring, an early day version of the mechanical bull! (Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society). The days of the Pickwick
Club have long since faded. In the early 1950s the popular dance
club burned to the ground signaling the end of an era. However, in the 1980s Dr. Donald Kahn, a retired cardiac surgeon from Birmingham turned his dream into reality when he began an ambitious development project to renovate the old Medical Arts Building and surrounding area where the thriving Pickwick
Club once stood. His vision was realized in 1988 when the doors of his new stylish European hotel fashioned in the old Medical Arts Building open its doors as the Pickwick Hotel to welcome guests. The Hotel, named after the Pickwick
Club, once boast an Art Deco design that adorned the original building with the medical symbols still preserved on the elevator doors in the lobby. In early 2007, the Pickwick Hotel closed its doors to begin a new, fabulous era as one of the finest new. Birmingham Alabama hotels. the Hotel Highland at Five Points South. With a vast development and renovation plan, The Hotel Highland will adorn
63 rooms, 28 of those
suites that have been transformed into a luxurious, upscale sophisticated boutique hotel. The Hotel Highland experience is one-of-a-kind in Birmingham that offers rich, vibrant jewel tones with plush furnishings and linens in a unique tranquil atmosphere.