We love traveling to nearby cities for day trips and often find ourselves thinking about the restaurants and businesses we would love to have in Huntsville.
They have the recipes for success and would make great additions to the Huntsville food scene.
5 Restaurants We Would LOVE to See in Huntsville
Five Daughters Bakery
Bakeries are one thing we feel Huntsville is really lacking, particularly donut shops. If you’ve ever had a Five Daughters Bakery donut, you’ll know exactly what we mean when we say their “100 layer donut” is like nothing you’ve ever had before.
The husband and wife team do in fact have five daughters, and you can find their bakeries in Nashville, Atlanta, Franklin, and Seaside.
Frothy Monkey
Frothy Monkey has it all! In addition to being a coffee shop, they serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner as well as wine, local beer, and kombucha. We’ve found most of their locations open early (7ish) and don’t close until 9 or 10 pm, making this the ultimate hangout for those looking to switch it up from the bar scene.
Frothy Monkey operates in Nashville, Chattanooga, and Franklin.
El Barrio
We know Huntsville has a lot of great dining options when it comes to Mexican food, but we promise you there is nothing like El Barrio in Birmingham. This place is slammed when they open at 10:30 on Saturday morning for brunch. Our favorite meal is the Sopa Seca which is a Mexican noodle casserole topped with fried eggs, pico, cheese, avocado, and housemade crema.
We need Mexican food downtown, and we think El Barrio would fit the bill!
Puckett’s
It’s easy for us to envision how cool it would be to see a Puckett’s restaurant in downtown Huntsville occupying a historic building and serving up hearty southern classics. Having a traditional southern restaurant downtown serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week would be amazing for the city.
Another spot for live music is always a good thing, and that’s something else they’re well known for.
Sunflower Cafe
It’s time for Huntsville to have its first 100% vegetarian restaurant. Sunflower Cafe out of Nashville is a cafeteria-style spot serving numerous variations of veggie burgers, indulgent bowls with BBQ tempeh, and wraps like the spicy buffalo tempeh wrap.
Most of their items are priced at $7 leaving room to add one of their delicious homemade sides like pad Thai salad or caramelized apples.
What are some very small chains (under 5 locations total) that you would like to see come to Huntsville?
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I would love to see Brassica from Columbus, Ohio makes its way to Huntsville. There’s nothing like it!
How about an In-N-Out Burger? From California but also now in Dallas.
Huntsville, being the Rocket City and also having a strong military flavor NEEDS “Mission BBQ” in the area !
Looking for donut shops and bakeries in Huntsville? Don’t forget these!
Bigfoot’s Little Donuts
The Donut Hole
Daylight Doughnuts
Half Pint’s Doughnut Shop
K-May Doughnuts
La Michoacana Bakery
Dolce Pan Bakery
Edgar’s Bakery
Baby Bite Bake Shop
Gigi’s Cupcakes
Good Company Cafe
Regale Cupcakery
Hamley Bake Shoppe
Mason Dixon
Nothing Bundt Cakes
The Dessert Fork
Sugar Belle
Beignet Cafe
Dunkin’ Doughnuts
Krispy Kreme
Pal’s Sudden Service from North east Tennessee (Greeneville, Johnson City, Bristol). To start their drive thru locations have giant food on them so defiantly a sight to see. Their Peachy tea and fries are so good, as well as everything else!