Brown Bag - Tuscaloosa

Tuscaloosa does not leave without stopping at the brown bag. bring an appetit and additional money to tap an excellent and overly accommodating staff. wels, fried green tomatoes and let unfortunately not have a place for dessert. I also tried the chicken and dumplings and a rib or two. a hole in the wall and my friend.

I have been going here for years. It is amazing, a must-eat, true soul food place. I’m wasting time trying to write a review. Words. Cannot. Describe. Mouth watering just thinking about it. I mean seriously, it’s that good. Fried green tomatoes, fried okra, greens, chicken and dumplings, barbecue, you name it, it is fantastic. Simply the best food and the best people. BAR NONE.

My girlfriend and I heard about Brown Bag last year and put off trying it out for a couple months because it's a pretty long drive from south of the river. One day we made it though, and we've gone almost every week since. The food is phenomenal, some of the best Southern food I've had anywhere, and I've lived in the South my entire life. Everything is great, but I'm particularly fond of the chicken and dumplings or the pulled/chopped pork. The sides are also amazing. Don't skip dessert. I usually don't eat sweets, but the desserts here are, like everything else, amazing. Last, but certainly not least, the service. The owners/workers are probably the nicest people I've met. Even Chick Fila workers look rude by comparison. After eating at nearly every restaurant in T-town, Brown Bag stands out as easily my absolute favorite.

We visited the Brown Bag after being curious about it for quite some time. We had a lovely lunch there! You can smell the delicious smoke from outside the restaurant. It'll stick with you, too, after you leave. Walking in, the seating/ordering was a bit confusing. We stood around for 2-3 minutes wondering if we should order at the counter before being told we could sit anywhere we liked. The menus were brought to us shortly afterward. I think this place is mostly attended by regulars, so it's not surprising that the folks there would assume we knew what to do. My boyfriend and I had chicken and dumplings, lima beans, macaroni and cheese, cornbread, fried catfish, and fried okra, with sweet tea to drink. It sounds like a ton of food, but the portions and prices were reasonable. The lima beans were the bigger, mushier, brown kind, not the tender greener beans that I prefer, but these still had a nice meaty, oniony flavor. The macaroni and cheese was baked, I think; it had a bit of a crust to it, which I liked a lot. The sweet tea was diabetes-inducing, so I naturally loved it. Cornbread was savory but not too sandy or crumbly. The chicken and dumplings was just a little too mushy, but the flavors were very solid. The fried okra, though, was some of the best I've ever had. Fresh, crispy, and light (as fried food goes Catfish was also delicious even I liked it, and I usually won't touch fish! One of the highlights of our visit was the service. There was one particular man with a heavy beard who had one of the most genuine, kind smiles. He was absolutely lovely and it was a pleasure to get to speak with someone so friendly and positive. Check this place out when you're itching for a drive on a sunny day.

The food is in a world of it on very yummy you won't go wrong with it the ribs are out of this world