2101 Cafe - Birmingham

We needed a place to eat Sunday evening dinner in downtown Birmingham and found this place in the Redmont Hotel. Nice setting on the ground floor of the historic hotel. Food was pretty good a nicely prepared tenderloin on a bed of collard greens with a layered potato side and a Caesar salad that used entire romaine leaves. But not great food salad had a bit of brown and the potatoes with the steak were a bit overcooked. Service was pretty good got a bit slow with apparently just one server on duty, but she did her best.

Breakfast is not as advertised on the Redmont website. There’s only a small Starbucks serving pastries and yogurt parfait. What good is a $15 food credit if there aren’t more choices than that? We wanted healthy protein, produce and juice options.

Very cool place inside the Redmont Hotel. Nice bar and pleasant restaurant. Menu was outstanding and everyone's meal looked fantastic. Also incredible desserts!

The reason I did not give this 5 stars is because the restaurant is not separated from the hotel, so about half the tables have views directly into the hotel lobby and the check-in desk, and the lovely bar is on one side of the lobby. For non-hotel guests it might be good to be aware of this before you go. The menu is appetizing and so is the food. I had dinner here as well as weekend brunch and enjoyed it.

Good food fast!