Mint House Birmingham – Downtown

About the Location

It takes a certain confidence (some might call it nerve) for a city to claim the soubriquet, “the dinner table of the South,” but as our guest at Mint House Birmingham – Downtown, you’ll find that the Magic City more than lives up to the promise. You can dine your way through a who’s who of James Beard Award-winning restaurants, including Automatic Seafood and Oysters, whose chef Adams Evans was named the 2022 Best Chef of the South, legendary barbecue joints like Dreamland, which has been a jewel in Alabama’s crown since 1958, and a modern take on Mexican at El Barrio, where editors at Birmingham-based Food & Wine magazine have a tough time choosing between plantain nachos, green pozole soup and grilled chorizo meatloaf. For coffee and a snack, The Red Cat is five minutes from your Mint House apartment and offers sandwiches, homemade baked goods and coffee roasted in-house daily. At the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, you’ll have the opportunity to reflect on the city’s role in the Civil Rights movement while exploring a staggering collection that includes nearly 500 recorded oral histories, the door of the cell where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail and a replica of a Freedom Riders bus. The nearby Birmingham Museum of Art features one of the largest art collections in the Southeastern United States, including extensive collections of work by African and African American artists. For a different type of uniquely Birmingham experience, you can get in touch with your inner road warrior at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, which features the world’s largest motorcycle collection.