Pat & Mike's Guidebook

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Pat & Mike's Guidebook

Our favorite restaurants

This is too convenient, right next door. The food is wonderful if you are looking for southern home cooked food. They serve a good breakfast with white or tomato gravy on fresh biscuits. Eggs cooked to order. The lunch buffet is M-F and is the best we have had anywhere in the county. Dinner from hamburgers to fried fish or fried oysters....again the best around. Closed Sundays and Monday after 3pm.
Chick & Sea Foods
1127 N McKenzie St
This is too convenient, right next door. The food is wonderful if you are looking for southern home cooked food. They serve a good breakfast with white or tomato gravy on fresh biscuits. Eggs cooked to order. The lunch buffet is M-F and is the best we have had anywhere in the county. Dinner from hamburgers to fried fish or fried oysters....again the best around. Closed Sundays and Monday after 3pm.
We like most everything here. Pizza and Italian.
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Portabella's
321B S McKenzie St
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We like most everything here. Pizza and Italian.
Wonderfully flavored and fresh food. If you like Jamaican, you will love this place!
Desmond's Taste of Jamaica Restaurant
214 W Laurel Ave
Wonderfully flavored and fresh food. If you like Jamaican, you will love this place!
Great steaks and seafood....lovely atmosphere on the Magnolia River. Expensive but well worth the price if you are looking for a really nice, but casual place for lunch or dinner.
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Jesse's Restaurant
14770 Oak St
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Great steaks and seafood....lovely atmosphere on the Magnolia River. Expensive but well worth the price if you are looking for a really nice, but casual place for lunch or dinner.
Great place for fresh salads, sandwiches and specials. Everything is always fresh and perfectly seasoned. Finish your meal off with gelato or a fresh pastry. Wonderful for take out too! Very casual and always friendly.
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Gelato Joe's Italian Restaurant & Bar
202 E Michigan Ave
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Great place for fresh salads, sandwiches and specials. Everything is always fresh and perfectly seasoned. Finish your meal off with gelato or a fresh pastry. Wonderful for take out too! Very casual and always friendly.
This is our favorite place for pizza. They also have a full bar and lots of beer options. Part family, part sports....always good pizza!
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Mellow Mushroom
2303 South McKenzie Street
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This is our favorite place for pizza. They also have a full bar and lots of beer options. Part family, part sports....always good pizza!
DeSoto's has great lunch specials and is just a few blocks off Hwy 59 in Gulf Shores. It's also just a couple of blocks off the beach. There are special hours for specials so check the website for the dates you are in Foley.
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De Soto's Seafood Kitchen
138 W 1st Ave
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DeSoto's has great lunch specials and is just a few blocks off Hwy 59 in Gulf Shores. It's also just a couple of blocks off the beach. There are special hours for specials so check the website for the dates you are in Foley.
A favorite stop when we are out walking on the rose path through the Foley park. Lovely, quaint tea shop with scones and muffins and fresh lunch items. We love to walk to and around the park and stop in for tea and scones in the afternoon if it's not too hot. Alternately, a walk in the morning before it heats up works too!
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The Copper Kettle Tea Bar
106 N Chicago St
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A favorite stop when we are out walking on the rose path through the Foley park. Lovely, quaint tea shop with scones and muffins and fresh lunch items. We love to walk to and around the park and stop in for tea and scones in the afternoon if it's not too hot. Alternately, a walk in the morning before it heats up works too!
The Ugly Diner (aka The Diner) is as close to a Diner in NY or NJ that you will get. GOOD food and they serve brunch on Sundays. They moved into a smaller strip mall a block from where they used to be....we plan to check the new place out this spring!
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The Diner
2200 E 2nd St
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The Ugly Diner (aka The Diner) is as close to a Diner in NY or NJ that you will get. GOOD food and they serve brunch on Sundays. They moved into a smaller strip mall a block from where they used to be....we plan to check the new place out this spring!
Great coffee and nice room in the back for small or large groups.
Gypsy Queen Java
109 W Laurel Ave
Great coffee and nice room in the back for small or large groups.
Good food and dining/bar outside!
Mamma Mia! Pizzeria
246 W Laurel Ave
Good food and dining/bar outside!

Churches in the area

Other churches that are not in the AirBnB list within a few blocks: Presbyterian (across Hwy 59); several blocks south are Lutheran, Episcopal, and Baptist. St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church is a few blocks west on Hwy. 98.
Friendly church just one block over and three blocks down. If you are in the area on the 1st Friday of the month, they serve a great fried fish lunch starting at 11 am. Get there early as it is very popular and has been know to run out of food before 12:30. Check our the website for church times and other information.
Foley United Methodist Church
915 N Pine St
Friendly church just one block over and three blocks down. If you are in the area on the 1st Friday of the month, they serve a great fried fish lunch starting at 11 am. Get there early as it is very popular and has been know to run out of food before 12:30. Check our the website for church times and other information.

Swimming

The beaches at Gulf Shores and Orange Beach are some of the cleanest and prettiest beaches on the entire Gulf Coast. Always observe the flags that are flying!
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Gulf Shores
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The beaches at Gulf Shores and Orange Beach are some of the cleanest and prettiest beaches on the entire Gulf Coast. Always observe the flags that are flying!
The Y has a great indoor pool and workout area. If you are already a member, they will honor your membership. If not, the cost per visit is minimal.
Snook Family YMCA
2560 S Pine St
The Y has a great indoor pool and workout area. If you are already a member, they will honor your membership. If not, the cost per visit is minimal.
A little further drive than Gulf Shores, but many people prefer the Orange Beach area.
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Orange Beach
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A little further drive than Gulf Shores, but many people prefer the Orange Beach area.

Historic Sites

Wonderful local historic site. It is quite a drive out from Foley, go south to Gulf Shores and make a right on Fort Morgan Road. However, if you like historic sites and the weather is cool enough, this is a place you won't want to miss.
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Fort Morgan
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Wonderful local historic site. It is quite a drive out from Foley, go south to Gulf Shores and make a right on Fort Morgan Road. However, if you like historic sites and the weather is cool enough, this is a place you won't want to miss.
This is a very old Greek settlement in Baldwin County. There is a beautiful Greek Orthodox church that you can tour and lots of great restaurants and shopping in the Daphne/Spanish Fort area if you have time.
Malbis
This is a very old Greek settlement in Baldwin County. There is a beautiful Greek Orthodox church that you can tour and lots of great restaurants and shopping in the Daphne/Spanish Fort area if you have time.

Shopping

If you are a shopper and need a place to take the family during one of the local rain events, this could be just the place. LOTS of stores with everything you may need or want. The end of season sales are the best bargain.
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Tanger Outlets Foley
2601 S McKenzie St
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If you are a shopper and need a place to take the family during one of the local rain events, this could be just the place. LOTS of stores with everything you may need or want. The end of season sales are the best bargain.

Neighborhoods

Tucked away off Hwy 98 between Foley and Fairhope is a great little historic town! There is a wonderful restaurant there called Jesse's that if you are a foodie you don't want to miss! A short drive through the neighborhood and along the main road will give you a glimpse back in time....you can feel the breezes blowing as you sip mint juleps off the back porch of a local residence!
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Magnolia Springs
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Tucked away off Hwy 98 between Foley and Fairhope is a great little historic town! There is a wonderful restaurant there called Jesse's that if you are a foodie you don't want to miss! A short drive through the neighborhood and along the main road will give you a glimpse back in time....you can feel the breezes blowing as you sip mint juleps off the back porch of a local residence!
Elberta was founded by German immigrants around the turn of the century and remains a small, quaint town to the east of Foley. Travel along Hwy 98 for a few miles and you will arrive in Elberta. Just east of the main intersection is a great little museum that will take you back in time to the farm culture that once dominated the landscape in Baldwin County.
Elberta
Elberta was founded by German immigrants around the turn of the century and remains a small, quaint town to the east of Foley. Travel along Hwy 98 for a few miles and you will arrive in Elberta. Just east of the main intersection is a great little museum that will take you back in time to the farm culture that once dominated the landscape in Baldwin County.
Fairhope, located on what is known locally as the "Eastern Shore" is actually on the west side of Baldwin County, about 30 minutes due west of Robertsdale at the end of Hwy 104. Another scenic drive to Fairhope is Rte 98 west to Point Clear and then a slow meandering view of the Mobile Bay and lovely neighborhoods north to the Fairhope Pier and downtown shopping and restaurants.
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Fairhope
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Fairhope, located on what is known locally as the "Eastern Shore" is actually on the west side of Baldwin County, about 30 minutes due west of Robertsdale at the end of Hwy 104. Another scenic drive to Fairhope is Rte 98 west to Point Clear and then a slow meandering view of the Mobile Bay and lovely neighborhoods north to the Fairhope Pier and downtown shopping and restaurants.
Another historic area of Baldwin County, 45 minutes northwest of Foley is the town of Spanish Fort. Blakely Park is located not far from Spanish Fort and is well worth the drive for history buffs of the Civil War Era. A onetime town, this 1,400-acre wooded riverside park now offers camping, hiking & Civil War events. in addition to the historic significance of the Spanish Fort area, is all the wonderful shopping and restaurants in the area.
Spanish Fort
Another historic area of Baldwin County, 45 minutes northwest of Foley is the town of Spanish Fort. Blakely Park is located not far from Spanish Fort and is well worth the drive for history buffs of the Civil War Era. A onetime town, this 1,400-acre wooded riverside park now offers camping, hiking & Civil War events. in addition to the historic significance of the Spanish Fort area, is all the wonderful shopping and restaurants in the area.

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Alabama Gulf Coast Information

Here is a website that will give you lots of information about the Alabama Gulf Coast: http://www.visitcoastalalabama.org/ You can click on the Foley or Gulf Shores tabs for local information and happenings.