January: Zack’s Family Restaurant in Dothan
A longtime Wiregrass favorite that AL.com named Alabama’s Best Meat-and-Three in 2017, Zack’s Family Restaurant reopened in a new building this past November, more than two years after a devastating fire forced longtime owners Zack and Dianne Whaley to close and rebuild the business they started in 1995. Most of the dishes at Zack’s are from old family recipes, and the steamtable menu offers a daily selection of six meats (including fried chicken, pork chops, catfish and country-fried steak) and about 12 vegetables (from collard greens and creamed corn to sweet potato casserole and fried green tomatoes). “We do the real Southern food,” Dianne Whaley says. “It’s my mama, (Zack’s) mama and sister, and me and Zack and some little church ladies (who) gave us recipes.”

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