Restaurants and Retail

Three new-to-market restaurants are coming to Tuscaloosa soon in a brand-new shopping center being planned in a currently residential area off McFarland Boulevard.

A pair of new boutiques will celebrate their grand openings in Tuscaloosa's Midtown Village shopping center later this month.

A West Alabama purveyor of pies will soon close permanently, and although the business is just five years old, its closure will mark the end of a longer era in Greensboro.

A new Italian eatery is opening its doors and serving its first customers today after moving into a popular restaurant property in the Taylorville community on Highway 69 South.

A growing chain of Mexican restaurants in Mississippi will soon expand into Alabama to open their fifth location inside a massive space in a Tuscaloosa shopping center.

Tuscaloosa entrepreneurs have opened a new soul food cafe which is drawing big crowds to a corner on Skyland Boulevard in Cottondale that has housed popular restaurants for decades.

Work is moving right along on a new full-size Starbucks cafe in North Tuscaloosa on Rice Mine Road, the biggest of three new locations opening in the area this year.

One of Tuscaloosa's newest restaurants is expanding its offerings and adding a lunch buffet so patrons can try dishes from cultures around the world with an Indian touch.

A Tuscaloosa fabric store will soon permanently close, along with two others in Alabama and about 500 nationwide as their parent company struggles through its second bankruptcy in a year.

A Bojangles restaurant that closed in Northport last year will reopen under new ownership next week, brand representatives announced Wednesday.