11 Mexican restaurants we love in Alabama
Updated May 05, 2021;
Happy Cinco de Mayo, Alabama!
If you wish to partake in this annual celebration, Alabama’s has an array of Mexican restaurants ready to serve, many of them with patios perfect for a meal outdoors if you aren’t quite ready to dine in again.
If you only want tacos, check out our own Haley Laurence’s extensive taco trail that will satisfy those urges.
Rest assured, if we missed your favorite place on this list, we can’t wait to visit and feature it down the road. For now, where are 17 legendary Mexican restaurants we love in Alabama, perfect for Cinco de Mayo 2021.
Pastor of disaster: Minister weathered tornado, hurricane
GREG GARRISON, AL.com
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1of5FILE - In this April 27, 2011, file photo a deadly tornado moves through Tuscaloosa, Ala. The Rev. Louis Johnson has experience with natural disaster. He is now working on his Ph.D. at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and he’s planning to write his dissertation on church emergency preparedness. (Dusty Compton/The Tuscaloosa News via AP)Dusty Compton/APShow MoreShow Less
2of5FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2020 file photo, Brenda Davenport holds her dog Harley as floodwaters cover a road, in Brewton, Ala. The Rev. Louis Johnson has experience with natural disaster. He is now working on his Ph.D. at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and he’s planning to write his dissertation on church emergency preparedness.Gerald Herbert/APShow MoreShow Less
Ten Years Later: McFarland Blvd and 15th Streetâs transformation since April 27
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBRC) - 10 years ago, you could not recognize McFarland Boulevard and 15th Street in Tuscaloosa after that EF-4 tornado passed through the city. It was truly heartbreaking.
If you go to the same place today, youâll see the fruits of 10 years of labor at McFarlandâs and 15th Streetâs decade long transformation. âWe didnât let that day define us, we didnât let that day paralyze our growth,â said Jim Page, Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama CEO.
Pastor of disaster: Minister weathered April 27, 2011 tornado and a hurricane
Updated 7:35 AM;
Today 7:30 AM
The Rev. Louis Johnson, pastor of Fairhope Avenue Baptist Church in Loxley, has guided churches through a tornado and a hurricane.
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You could call the Rev. Louis Johnson the pastor of disaster.
In fact, he’s working on his Ph.D. at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and he’s planning to write his dissertation on church emergency preparedness.
He’s had plenty of first-hand experience.
When Johnson was a teenager, his home church, Lakeside Baptist, was flooded with eight feet of water in 1994 when Tropical Storm Gordon stalled over Albany, Ga. “That was my first experience with natural disaster,” Johnson said.
Investigations remain ongoing into a shooting that occurred at an apartment complex Friday evening and the hatchet attack that was reported the week before on McFarland Boulevard. An arrest was made last week in connection with a recent shooting at Hay Court.
Friday night shooting at Branscomb Apartments
Shootings were reported both Friday and Saturday night at Branscomb Apartments, l570 60th St.
Capt. Jack Kennedy with the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit said the Saturday night shooting is not connected with the shooting case from the evening before.
A 26-year-old man was alone in his car Friday when he crashed into another vehicle and then a guardrail at the intersection of Oscar Baxter Drive and Alabama Highway 69 South. At 7:24 p.m. that evening, calls to 911 reported that the driver had left his vehicle after the crash and told others who had stopped that he had been shot, according to the Tuscaloosa Police Department.