The best restaurants in Birmingham, AL, according to critics

11 Birmingham, AL restaurants featured on published critics’ lists from 2 publications: MICHELIN Guide, The New York Times. Ordered by how many of those lists agree.

• Bayonet — Downtown, Birmingham, AL — on 2 critics’ lists
• Automatic Seafood and Oysters — Lakeview, Birmingham, AL
• Bottega — Highland Park, Birmingham, AL
• Chez Fonfon — Five Points South, Birmingham, AL
• Current Charcoal Grill — Downtown, Birmingham, AL
• Helen — Downtown, Birmingham, AL
• Hot and Hot Fish Club — Pepper Place, Birmingham, AL
• La Fete — Downtown, Birmingham, AL
• OvenBird — Pepper Place, Birmingham, AL
• Pizza Grace — Downtown, Birmingham, AL
• Reve — Downtown, Birmingham, AL

The Birmingham lists

• MICHELIN Guide American South: Birmingham — MICHELIN Guide
• The Restaurant List 2025 — The New York Times

The Critic List — the critics’ “best restaurants” lists, in one place. We don’t write the lists; the critics do, and every one links back to the original.