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  • Southern Cast Iron

    Rob McDaniel

    Aug 17, 2021 5 minutes
    BY DANIEL DUBUISSON

    As you cross the threshold into Helen, one of the newest culinary hits in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, you might hear the iconic drum solo of Phil Collins’s 1981 hit “In the Air Tonight” and get the sense that an eventful evening is about to unfold for you. With the comforting aroma of down-home cooking wafting from the kitchen and throughout the restaurant, somehow, the two-story, newly renovated space welcomes you in like a cozy home away from home. It’s just that and more to Alabama native Rob McDaniel.

    The restaurant is named for his grandmother, Helen, a strong Southern woman who loved cooking for her family so much that she had a custom-made cast-iron stove installed next to her fireplace, and she put it through

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