Giglio’s Eat Shop
Supposedly (according to my dad and several older Birminghamians I have
talked to) there also used to be a lot of hamburger places downtown
with the same sauce-based philosophy. My dad says they pretty much
died out by the early 60’s.
The best hamburger I ever had in
Birmingham was a holdover from that era - a place called “Giglio’s Eat
Shop” in Bessemer. My one page review of that place (in ICTW) was so
appreciative that the family FRAMED IT in their living room, and called
to tell me!
The owner / artist in residence Tony Giglio got sick, closed the place,
and died within months. And he never told his family how to make the
sauce.
Talk about a place I MISS. Good lord those things were terrific.
(written by Robert McCrary: “I had two, and a coke”)
