Whatever we’re doing, we need to all work together to keep the meat & threes in business. Pell City Steakhouse is practically preserved in amber. How are the steaks at night? No idea, because I’m a vegetable plate girl and lunch is terrific. And this neon sign is…it’s everything (below, previous visits, for the sign at night)
LB loves this fried chicken. If you keep a scoreboard in your head about the greatest fried chicken of all time and the beloved, shuttered Hotel Talisi fried chicken is right there at the top, same. Um, scroll to the bottom of this post for a way you can still get it — kinda.
My plate — the turnip greens, purple hull peas, the coleslaw…yep. Perfect.
The following pics are all from previous visits. Because I have to show this neon, mostly.
They just don’t make neon steaks anymore.
Certs, Clorets, Rolaids. What year is this!?
and the venerated pie case
oh yes.
Earlier, about the Hotel Talisi (Tallassee, Alabama) fried chicken: this was from there in 2008
Since the hotel burned down, there’s been one place serving it. Called Larry Melvyn’s Food Once Thought Gone (all that is on the sign out front) in Tallassee, even Absolutely Alabama came out to do a piece on it and everybody there used to work at the hotel, so they know the recipes. That’s their Hotel Talisi chicken, fried at 340* so the crust is just-so, in this pic from our visit in 2022.
fabulous.
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