Birmingham is now known
as a new foodie city,
and moms just don't have time
to cook. So if you're looking
for some local down home southern
cuisine, then pull up a chair for
Dining Out with Comedienne Joy.
That's right! Dining Out with
Comedienne Joy takes us to some of
the best places to eat in Birmingham
and its surrounding cities. So
whether your on 20/59
east or west or 65 north or south
or 459 or somewhere
in between, Dining Out with Comedienne
Joy is about to tip your tummy
and make those taste buds water.
So if you like your meat and three
in a brick and motor, or in a gas station
Dining Out with Comedienne Joy takes
you to some of the best spots in town.
This segment is brought to you by
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Center, offering
gynecology, weight loss, and
hormone balance.
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If you
love middle eastern food as well as
Mediterranean food, you've got to
make your way to Eli's Jerusalem
Grill! Now, he has two locations,
and my first stop is here
on Hwy 280 in Inverness,
but my second stop is his newest location,
at the Pizitz Food Hall.
- Hi, I'm Laurel. - I'm Eli.
- And we're the owners of Eli's Jerusalem
Grill. - Eli's Jerusalem
grill, or Eli's
Jerusalem grill, as many of us like to call it,
has been serving up delicious
hummus and swarma
for the last two and a half years at
his location on Hwy 280. But
you can also get other healthy meals
from Eli's, like these lamb chops.
- Garlic powder, black pepper,
and a little bit of salt.
Ok, and now we're gonna use
some olive oil. - These lamb chops
are placed on the grill and cooked
to a customer's liking. Of course,
i needed mine medium-well, and it
is served with this Israeli salad
that is made fresh in the restaurant
every day. - And we're making sure that
every customer gets salad
with his meal. Because vegetables
are very important. You know, it's cucumber
tomatoes, onion, and
some parsley. - This is incredible,
it's so tender, I could
taste all of the flavors going through here,
now I think traditionally you normally cook it a
little bit rare, but I liked the way you cooked
this perfectly. - Yes ma'am, it's a medium.
- And in a minute, he's gonna make
me eat that salad over here! - You've gotta
eat your salad. - But if I can
look half as good as this guy here and his
beautiful wife, I'm gonna eat it all!
Think I can get big muscles like you? - Yes ma'am.
You and I together, we gotta hang together.
- That's what I'm talking about!
Something else that's pretty good
at Eli's Jerusalem Grill is the
garlic chicken!
- So garlic chicken, is
we take a chicken thigh,
and we thin slice it
we don't hammer it, we don't heat it,
or anything. We thin slice it.
Then we marinate it with fresh garlic
and salt and pepper
and paprika and let it sit
for over 24 hours.
Chicken and garlic go good together,
people want to eat healthy. Chicken is healthy.
Organic chicken. So,
and it tastes great!
Garlic chicken, over rice, and Israeli
salad. The rice is basmati,
organic basmati rice.
- Oh it's very good.
But I can't wait to get in this grilled chicken
cause I could smell all the garlic flavors
in it when it was on the grill!
I couldn't wait for it to get ready.
Oh yeah, this the real deal.
Now, that was a lot of chicken you had
on the grill, and I'm very grateful that you
put it all on my plate. - Yes, we're making
sure that everybody
eat here and not leave hungry.
- Well see, that's one
problem I never have! With friends like
this, that's why they my best friends!
You can come here and get this food
and you will never leave hungry! Cause I'm about to go in on this!
- Greek cabbage. - Ok.
- And you got some beet salad,
you got some fresh hummus,
- Everybody loves your hummus. - ...yes.
- That's really popular? - Yes.
Very popular.
And some Morrocan style carrots.
- Now, which one of these do I need to
eat to get muscles like yours? See, my
are small, but I want my arms
to look like yours. - [laughs] Well,
we got to eat some beets, it's very good.
Good for your liver. And some hummus.
- Hummus yes! Beets, I don't know...
Can I put my hummus on my beets?
- Yes. - Yes, you can do whatever you want.
You just have to eat them. - Well, if i can do that,
then hello!
Mm!
It tastes like beets! [laughter]
- Well, I hope so!
- [laughs] But hey, if I can get muscles like yours,
I'm gonna eat these up! - Yes ma'am.
- And after the break, I'll show you my favorite
thing from Eli's Jerusalem Grill,
at the Pizitz Food Hall.
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What's up everybody, this your
girl Comedienne Joy! Just want to let you all
know that I can moving!
Starting July 1st, you can catch me
right here on My68 at
11 a.m. instead of 8:30! Now, I need
you to tell all your friends,
all your family members, and even your
frenemies, that Comedienne Joy is now
coming on at 11 o'clock starting
July 1st. And of course, I'll still
bringing you all those delicious
yummy spots around the state of
Alabama, so ya'll can say Joy...you know
you make me hungry! So don't forget,
write it down! July 1st
at 11 o'clock, that's where you can
catch Dining Out with Comedienne Joy!
[upbeat music]
- Before the break, I
took you to Eli's Jerusalem Grill
on Hwy 280 and showed you the
delicious kabobs, garlic chicken,
and even lamb chops. You see,
all of the food there is cooked healthy
and most of it is eating gluten-free.
And it tastes great amongst the young
and the old.
- I like the
lamb kabob.
I like it rare!
- My favorite thing is the
beef swarma and
it has perfect texture!
- I love the hummus, I think it's the
best I've ever had.
And I love to get a side of
chicken shawarma and then put
tahini sauce on top!
- I love the chicken shawarma! I could eat chicken shawarma
three times a day! -And speaking of
shawarma, Eli's
goes through about 40 pounds each
of the chicken, beef, and lamb
shawarma!
And as you can see, Eli takes pride
in the food that his customers get,
he oversees it making sure that they get the
perfect meal every time.
Now Eli also has a new location
here at the Pizitz food hall.
There, they also have kabobs
shawarma, and a couple other cool
sandwiches. - We're making a
falafel sandwich, and we're gonna
open the pita, spread it with some hummus
and now because the falafel
is so big what we're doing,
we're gonna smash them and just lay
them inside. And now we're gonna
end up with some more Israeli salad
right on top.
It's a falafel sandwich. - Yes! Now, I like these
individually. I've never had them in a sandwich.
- And you know, it's wonderful the most
popular sandwiches in Israel
when you go out for lunch, and you don't want anything too
heavy before you go back to work, you got the falafel
sandwich and you eat it. - Now this is incredible.
- Yes ma'am! - I don't know if it's cause it's
fried in grease? - Ok, so
what this is, a falafel
is a mixture of chickpeas, onion
and garlic and cilantro, a little bit of cumin
and we are making it
very similar to a hushpuppy.
- He also made this
kafta kabob sandwich as well as a
shawarma sandwich, which
they were both incredibly delicious.
But it was when he made this chicken
schnitzel, I thought I was gonna lose it
because everyone knows I love
chicken!
- Chicken schnitzel, it's a chicken breast
we thin slice it and we
dip it in some eggs
and we have our own mixture of
breadcrumbs with spices
good Israeli way to do it.
We also have an option of
gluten free at 280 location.
The chicken schnitzel, - [whispers] yes!
- ...because we know you love
chicken all the time. - Yes!!
- It's over organic rice. And the organic
rice is yellow, it's a basmati rice
and we are mixing it with some tumeric
that's the coloring we give it.
And tumeric is very healthy for you.
- This'd be good with a biscuit.
- It might. - You make this for breakfast?
- Yes, you do. - It's good! - This would be good with
egg in the morning.
- So, your grandma, this is her recipe? - Yes ma'am.
- This taste so good, can I be your cousin?
- Yes ma'am. - I want to be in the family.
- Yes ma'am. - This is really,really good.
- Thank you.
You're in the family ma'am. - That's what I'm saying!
- You're in our family. - This is my cousin over here, Eli and this is
my little cousin over here! You have got to
come and see them! Come and see us!
Over at Eli's Jerusalem Grill! Here at the Pitzitz
or on Hwy 280.
- We just want to mention that
we only have a parking deck.
The first two hours is free! So, don't be
afraid to travel downtown.
- And get some of this right here.
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- It doesn't
matter if it's a holiday, football,
basketball, or just
Wednesday... everyone loves good barbeque!
Right? And when it comes to
Alabama barbeque, one of
my favorite spots is none other than
Dreamland BBQ!
I love the way you get to sop your white bread
in the sauce, plus they have a bib
for people like me!
Dreamland BBQ is an
Alabama staple when it comes down to
some on the pit ribs and butts.
You see, it all got started in
Tuscaloosa nearly 60 years ago
and today, the traditional continues.
- You take it off 6 o'clock in the morning, it takes about
approximately 8-10 hours
to cook. Start it off
with uh, put some rub on it
put some salt on it, place
it on top of the pit.
Let it cook for the entire day.
And, rotate it and put some
dreamland sauce on it, wrap it up
we're ready to go!
- Dreamland has an
extensive menu with regular
barbeque finds like
ribs, chicken sandwiches, and
they also have some amazing
sides! Like this fried okra
that's topped in a special
Dreamland sauce.
- So we put some Alabama twang sauce on it...
- And that Alabama
twang sauce is a ranch based
sauce that makes the okra taste so good
and it also has a combination
of some of that Dreamland
seasoning! - Our shakes and our rubs
are a definite complements
to...we use them on our wings,
we use them on our chips,
they're used on our okra,
it's used on our fries,
it's just a great complement to anything
savory and salty.
- And customers agree that 60 years later,
the food is still a hit!
- This is so good!
Dreamland, you got to come down here
and try it out! I can't wait to
gobble my food!
- The french fries are really good!
And I've never had the ribs,
but I do like them. I really do,
I give them that.
- Very tasty. The fries are delicious.
- You got to come down here
to Dreamland on the southside,
it's where it's at! - And now it's time for
my favorite part over here at
Dreamland, and that's the ribs
that's dressed in the sauce! We all got to dig in!
Just grab a rib! I love that tangy
sauce that's on here, fresh cooked everyday.
Oh yeah.
I need my bread!
[laughter] The perfect ribs
I can get my sop on with! - Just the way we like
it!
- They're ribs you can sink your teeth into
they're not a fall off the bone,
baby back. They've got a little bit of a
pull off the bone.
Delicious!
I didn't waste some this time but is all
good I'm gonna have to rub it off. Now what you
think about your ribs? - Hey, that's part of the fun,
put some sauce on yourself, so you have to [?]
- See, that's what I'm talking about.
- You gotta try some of our world famous baked beans!
- Oh that's what I'm saying! Hello, barbeque, ain't
barbeque without the beans! Now since
I have to share with him, I'm just gonna get my own spoon
now! [laughter] I don't want to give nobody no
cooties ya'll!
Mm! Let me tell ya'll,
these beans here,
hey, if you like your beans with a little bit of diabetes in it,
they got it right here! [laughter]
Oh yeah, these beans are kicking I'm gonna need
my own spoon for these!
[laughter] Yeahhhh, these some good beans
right here! Got the good sugar. You got to take
your insulin for these! These are off the hook over here! [laughter]
You need to find your
closest Dreamland, come over here and
get you some good beans, some of that okra
over there, and some of these ribs!
Hey, I don't have to share these beans with ya'll?
- Nah you can take them all! - That's what I'm saying.
These beans are all of that ya'll!
After the break, we'll show you the
catering side of
Dreamland BBQ.
[upbeat music]
- What's up
everybody, this your girl Comedienne Joy!
Just want to let you all know that I am moving
starting July 1st, you can
catch me right here on My 68 at
11 a.m. instead of 8:30!
Now, I need you to tell all your
friends, all your family members, and
even your frenemies that Comedienne
Joy is now coming on at 11 o'clock
starting July 1st!
And of course, I'll still be bringing you
all those delicious yummy spots around
the state of Alabama. So ya'll can say
Joy, you know you made me hungry!
So don't forget, write it down,
July 1st at 11 o'clock
that's where you can catch Dining Out
with Comedienne Joy!
[upbeat music]
- Before the break, I took you to the
iconic Dreamland BBQ.
Now it doesn't matter if you're having a
tailgate part, a holiday party,
corporate event or a social gathering,
Dreamland offers some
amazing dishes on the catering
menu, you can get some special
things that you won't find in the restaurant!
- Some appetizers, hors d'oeuvres,
things that aren't on our restaurant menu
perhaps, but they would be on our special event
menu. Got a pimento cheese
and sausage appetizer
that's really good.
We could do some variations with our meats,
our chicken fingers,
we can kind of slice up and put on a tray.
We can do fruit and veggie trays,
really anything that you could desire
we can mix up for ya.
- It's a tailgate
we feature, it consists of three slabs of ribs
two quarts of sides actually, your choice,
a loaf of bread and a
pint of gringo sauce.
From 8-10!
- And something else Dreamland has
is it's french onion dip?
- Yes. It's our version of the
party dip that you can get in the
grocery store.
But it's got a Dreamland spin on it.
- Yes. - And I've had these before and I'm telling
you, they are incredible.
- And again, with our house made chips
with the Dreamland rub. Adds a
nice BBQ flavor to it.
- I think I'm gonna get this
right here and put this on the side of the bed!
I'm gonna have this as my midnight snack! [laughter]
This is so good!
And speaking of the perfect gift,
you can always have Dreamland's meats
sausage, sauce,
and desserts shipped to
your favorite person or you
can always order for yourself.
So whether it's the catering or
you're eating inside Dreamland,
everybody has the same response.
- Mm!!
Mm, mm!
[laughter]
- Oh, I know some food and woo!
I know good food. And
that was some good food!
- It's one of my annual traditions, me and my daughter come
down every year
after Christmas, sometimes we do a little
after-Christmas shopping. But mainly we gonna be down here to
get some ribs, and we gonna top it off
with banana pudding! - Girl, I see why
this banana pudding is so good!
And it's full of cookies
from Bud's Best Cookies! DId you know that's an Alabama product?
- That's right, that's right! It's full of
a lot of stuff too. I don't know what it is but it's good!
- Dreamland BBQ
the food is so good, I hate
to say this ya'll, but I got to say it, the food
is so good, it make you want to lay down.
Yeah, that's Joy's saying,
I know I said it. Get the camera out of my face, I said it.
[laughter]
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- Hey this is John Witherspoon!
I enjoy Dining Out
with Comedienne Joy.
Joy! Every time I come
in the kitchen you in the kitchen, Joy.
Eating up all the food. All the
chitlins, all the collard greens, all the pig feet,
all the hogmosh!
- What's up everybody,
this your girl Comedienne Joy! Just want to let you
all know that I am moving.
starting July 1st, you can catch me right
here on My 68 at11 a.m.
instead of 8:30! Now, I need
you to tell all your friends,
all your family members, and even your frenemies
that ComedienneJoy is now
coming on at 11 o'clock starting
July 1st!And of course, I'll
still be bringing you all those delicious
yummy spots around the state of Alabama.
So ya'll can say Joy, you
know you made me hungry!
So don't forget, write it down, July
1st, at 11 o'clock that's where
you can catch Dining Out with Comedienne Joy!
[upbeat music]
- The next time you're
in the Clay/Chalkville area, and you're craving
some delicious wings, some
fish fried hard, or even some
delicious homestyle meat and three,
then you have got to stop and make your
way to my friends over here at Wing A Fish!
There they have amazing lunch specials
that you can get for under $7!
Wing A Fish is a
family owned restaurant that actually got
started in York, Alabama in
2009. Since that time,
they've moved to the Clay/Chalkville area
and customers can't wait
until 11:30 to line up
to get some of their delicious catfish,
tilapia, shrimp
po' boys, and of course
those delicious chicken wings that
can come in up to 19 different
flavors. - If you love
honey bbq, then you'll love golden.
The golden sauce is
about a 4 out of 10
on the spice.
These are your top selling golden...
drum up, drum down
so they can all fit.
Most people want extra sauce on the golden,
because of the taste. Say, I'm using
it to dip their fries in, so forth and so on.
And after that, we're gonna make some
cajun ranch fries, which is what
actually top it off.
So, we'll go with the cajun ranch
fries.
And then from here
we give you what
you looking for.
It's how we do it at Wing R Fish.
- Obviously when we come here, we got to get
some wings. So, you have
50 cent wing day on Wednesday?
- 50 cent wing Wednesday. - And then you got so many
flavors! And everybody know I love chicken!
- Well, you know we do
19 flavors of wings.
- So what flavor is this?
- That flavor is sweet n' hot. I tried to give you something in the
middle, something that's not too spicy
- Oh, now this is on point!
- Now, you got another flavor here, this is what, garlic
parm? - Garlic parm. Now, garlic parm is a
wing with a very unique taste.
We actually make our own sauce for
it. We got a great
base to it with a touch of
garlic. Which, you know, garlic good for your health.
It keeps your system going through.
And then we'll add a
parmesan on top of it.
- Now, do your customers ever clean their bones
like this? - Oh God, yeah! We have them come in
like that, but your doing your best
and you really puttin a hurt to em. - You want me to show you
my bones?
- Wait a minute, so you think your bones
look better than mine?
- Aw...nah! [laughs]
- Who do ya'll think bones look the best?
- Please tell us, please!
- Everybody already knows! [laughter]
I know how to clean a chicken bone!
- Besides the wings, they also have
an incredible looking philly
cheesesteak, but it's also the
fried fish that make you say,
mm, mm!
- This is some of our famous catfish, farm raised
catfish. On our two piece catfish we're gonna
do catfish here, and also we're
gonna add okra as well to it.
- And after the break, I'll take
you to Wing A Fish soul
food bar that you can get
every day, Tuesday through Sunday.
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I'm Dr. Mia, your B3
specialist and board certified
gynecologist. I help women
suffering with weight gain,
low energy, and low sex drive
improve their quality of life through
cutting edge medicine.
My goal is to allow you to age
gracefully so that you can
experience your true balance and
belief to live well, age
beautifully. So the days
of transitioning into and out of
menopause, and being miserable and
tired, and not being able to focus,
not desiring sex,
not being able to sleep,
with low energy -- those days are over!
Come see me at MiBella Wellness Center so that
I can check your hormones, and I
can balance your hormones and find
a plan that works for you, so that
you can continue to experience
your true beauty balance and belief.
It's Dr. Mia!
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You can give her a call at
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You can also book
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- What's up everybody! This your girl,
Comedienne Joy! Just want to let you all know that I am
moving! Starting July 1st
you can catch me right here on My 68
at 11 a.m. instead of
8:30! Now, I need you to tell
all your friends, all your family members,
and even your frenemies, that Comedienne
Joy is now coming on at
11 o'clock starting July 1st.
And of course, I'll still be bringing you all
those delicious, yummy spots around
the state of Alabama! So ya'll
can say Joy, you know you make me hungry!
So don't forget, write it down,
July 1st at 11 o'clock
that's where you can catch Dining
Out with Comedienne Joy!
[upbeat music]
- Before the break, I took you to Wing A Fish,
that's located in the Clay/Chalkville
area. I showed you their
wings, their shrimp po'boys,
philly cheesesteaks, and that
amazing catfish. But when it
comes to those southern comfort foods,
Wing A Fish is serving it up
for you six days a week
with their new meat and two!
Or, meat and three!
Everyday is soul food
day. We do soul food during the week now
for lunch. our soul food consists of
at least four meats and eight
vegetables. The biggest thing
is being able to bring the good quality food
with a low cost.
- It's so good. So, does the menu rotate?
- The menu rotates on a daily basis.
Every day we do something different.
We may have just some of the veggie
repeat, macaroni and cheese,
collard greens, green beans,
I can sell those everyday, all day.
- And what about these candy yams? - Candy yam,
ah, they on special days. - Man! I'm glad
I came on a special day! These things are the bomb!
- The yams go hard. We actually
go to the farmers market
and get fresh sweet potatoes
and cut them down and slow cook them down.
The collard greens
we're using are nothing out of a can.
We actually make everything fresh on a
daily basis. - So these are
hand cut mama greens? - Hand cut
mama green with turkey in the middle of it.
So we don't use pork,
- No fatbacks in here? - No fatbacks, just only
turkey. Man, you don't even miss the fatback
I'm telling you. In fact, the food is
so good at Wing A Fish,
that one of my friends had to use my
comedy word!
- Perdocious, alright.
Very perdocious.
- Translate it,
that means the food is
good!
- I told him he had to try it,
he drove 60 miles to get here!
- I think it's good!
And we will be back!
- And what's just as good as the food
at Wing A Fish are the
prices! Because you see
a meat and three during lunchtime
is $8.99.
Where you gonna go and beat those prices?
In fact, the food was so
good I wanted to move in!
- I'm taking it and getting an old school
taste something to keep you
coming back. - You say you want people to come
back? With food like this, I don't think
I'm leaving! - [laughs]
Hey, you don't have no choice, you got to go!
- mm! No, I'm staying here. This food
is just that good!
- You try to get them in and out
everything pretty much
cooked to order. - Now, if you don't
want a scrumptious, heavy meal
during the middle of the day,
you can always eat off
the budget friendly lunch special that
includes some of the wings, fish,
and some of the sandwiches, for under
$7.00 and that even includes a drink!
- I'm one of the only places
that if you don't enjoy it, bring it back.
Because if you don't want it with us, we want to make sure
you leave happy. - Well if I ever bring it back, can you save
it for me? Caue I will eat it! - Ah, no! [laughs]
- Your food is just that good! - I understand!
- And if you don't have time to stop in to
Wing A Fish, you can always give them a
call and they will bring the food
to you! They have
a five mile delivery
radius, and they also cater!
So stop in at Wing A Fish
today and tell them Comedienne Joy sent you!
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- Well that's gonna do it for this week's edition of
Dining Out with Comedienne Joy.
Now you know as I stand here at The Club,
overlooking the beautiful
Red Mountain here in Birmingham,
I can't help but to be grateful for each and every
one of you! I want to thank you so much for tuning in
each and every week, but most importantly, I
want to thank you for coming out and supporting the
restaurants you've seen on the show. Now,
if you see another spot that I have missed, and you want
to see on the show, or your own a restaurant
I need you to email me!
You can email me at
comediennejoy@gmail.com.
That's comediennejoy@gmail.com.
And I'll be sure to get back out to
you. Now for those of you that are
continuing to eat at those restaurants,
I need you to go on social media
and tag me with those pictures!
You can find me on Facebook at
Dining out with Comedienne Joy,
and on Twitter and Instagram, my
handle is simply Comedienne Joy!
And until then I need you to remember,
that the places I take you, the food is so
good, it make you want to lay down!
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