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Stitt opened the Italian-influenced Bottega six years after founding his flagship restaurant, Highlands Bar & Grill. Both have profoundly affected Birmingham. Many local restaurant owners today trained at one or both
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The Godfather of Southern Cuisine
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Ask whether the dough contains milk, butter, egg or ghee.
Ask whether anything is added to it, on its own this is vegan.
Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.
Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.
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Ask what it is made with. The menu does not list the ingredients.
Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.
Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.
Ask whether the fryer is shared with meat, and if there is egg in the batter.
Ask whether it is cooked in butter or a meat stock rather than oil.
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Stitt’s cooking is characterized by restraint. It’s not that he’s not improving the quality of a fresh gulf fish. It’s that he does not appear to be. This makes him a great chef (flourish is easy, restraint is hard), and leads people to eat at his restaurant regularly a few nights a week. That makes him a great restaurateur
While devoted regulars may have trouble steering themselves away from Stitt’s classic dishes at Café Bottega like the seared beef carpaccio, Niçoise salad, and chicken scaloppini, they’ll find themselves particularly rewarded by any of the eight pizzas on the menu
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