Is Bottega Café Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (Birmingham, AL)
Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 8 Birmingham, Alabama
Current status
As of October 2026, Bottega Café is listed open on bottegarestaurant.com, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: Bottega's official website was live on 2026-09-08 with dated menu PDFs (Dining Room menu dated 9.5.26, Café menu dated 9.3.26, wine list dated 8.26.2026), current hours, and a 2026 copyright notice. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 8, Episode 7
- Address 2240 Highland Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205
- Now called Bottega
- Website bottegarestaurant.com
- Show map
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What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?
Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food Network) featured Bottega Café in a 'Southern Charm' episode of fan-favorite dishes. Bottega is chef Frank Stitt's Italian-inspired restaurant in Birmingham, pairing wine-bar and trattoria dishes with ingredients from the American South; its dining room opened in 1988, with an adjoining wood-oven café added two years later. According to the business's own website, bottegarestaurant.com, checked on 2026-09-08, the site listed current hours for both the Café (Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.) and the Dining Room (Tuesday-Saturday, 5-9:30 p.m.), along with menu documents dated in August and September 2026 and a 2026 copyright notice. The site also routed reservations through Resy and listed Bottega's sister restaurants, Highlands Bar & Grill and Chez Fonfon.
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Sources we checked
- bottegarestaurant.com https://bottegarestaurant.com/
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Record btiea-0601 · checked by Cal Marchetti.