By: Michael Tomberlin
El Barrio and Paramount, two of Birmingham’s most successful downtown restaurants, are showing the strength of their respective offerings with second locations bookending each other in a new development in West Homewood.
The traditional take on Mexican food has made El Barrio one of the mainstays on the Magic City restaurant scene. Paramount’s fun takes on burgers and hot dogs exemplify the merriment found in its bar and arcade games, and it grew to be a place where singles and families go to have good food and entertainment.
When the developer approached the restaurants’ owners about duplicating the two concepts in a new mixed-use West Row development on the site of the former Econo Lodge hotel, there was much to like about the idea.
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