Bienville Bites Food Tour
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Discover the food, history, and people of Mobile, Alabama, with the Port City Plate Podcast, presented by Bienville Bites Food Tour! Join host Chris Andrews as he takes you on a delicious journey through one of America’s oldest cities. Chris has hosted thousands of people from all around the world on food tours in Downtown Mobile. Meet the chefs, restaurateurs, historians, and locals that he has met along the way. Mobile's melting pot of history and culture makes its food scene is one of the most unique in the United States. Discover the iconic restaurants of Mobile, hidden gems, and...
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · August 2026
Port City Plate Podcast maps Mobile's food traditions, local businesses, and owner stories through grounded Gulf Coast conversations.
Port City Plate Podcast is a Leisure pick for listeners who want Mobile, Alabama, through its food. Chris Andrews hosts conversations about the city's food, history, and people, and the sampled episodes stay close to that brief: gumbo history with David Hubbell, Jefe Paletas…
You came for dinner ideas; you stayed for Mobile arguing gumbo birthrights.
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A bayfront supper-club story with family history, practical food talk, and local texture.
Amber Harris's route from the Culinary Institute of America to Mon Louis Supper Club gives this Mobile food story its shape. Chris Andrews keeps the focus on Harris's childhood near Dauphin Island, her early interest in food, and the move from restaurant work at Press & Co in…
A patient gumbo history lesson that keeps Mobile in frame.
This episode keeps gumbo at the center, but it uses the dish to open out into Mobile food history, ancestry, trade, and the realities of cooking with coastal ingredients.
A warm Mobile food story about a West Mobile treat shop and the people behind it.
Jefe Pelaitas comes into focus as a West Mobile treat shop on Cottage Hill Road near the University, with Fabian Leon laying out what the place is about in plain terms.
Bourbon talk, barrel stories, messy good pours.
Bourbon reviews with memory, candor, and community.
Everyday life, thought through together.
Chris Andrews interviews Velvet Pig owners Max Donaldson and Mackenzie Kleiser about their whole-hog restaurant inside the Icebox at 755 Monroe Street in Mobile, Alabama.
Chris Andrews interviews Danny Calametti and Nalim Sanchez about Continental Commissary Kitchen, a Mobile, Alabama facility created to give food entrepreneurs access to commercial equipment, storage, and business support.
Chris Andrews welcomes Fabian Leon to talk about Jefe Pelaitas in West Mobile.
Chris Andrews interviews Debra DeGuire, the longtime owner of Mobile's A&M Peanut Shop, which her father Alfred purchased from Planters in 1963.
Chris Andrews interviews Christian Hollenhead, whose family recently took ownership of Ashland Midtown Pub, a Mobile restaurant operating since 2008.
The Port City Plate Podcast presents Wade Price’s update on moving Slurp Society to 609 Dolphin Street in Mobile, Alabama.
Host Chris Andrews interviews Amber Harris, a CIA graduate and co-founder of the Mon Louis Supper Club, about her culinary journey from childhood dinner parties to working as a yacht chef and returning to Mobile's food scene.
Chris Andrews opens with gumbo and Mobile's food history.