In our continued coverage following the oil spill that has consumed a large portion of the Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas Gulf Coast, we were asked by a friend of the Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce to provide you with some very important information. Since the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill is now beginning to affect our shores, millions of businesses and tourists alike, we were approached to syndicate an informative document with three different ways to begin a claims process with BP written by Hartmann, Blackmon & Kilgore, P.C. in Fairhope, AL. In a time like this when the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has yet to step in, it is crucial to begin making claims if you are not yet directly affected or have already lost work due to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Here’s what HBK had to say about getting the ball rolling with BP:
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill may have a significant impact on local businesses for months or years to come. Many of our clients have questions about how to pursue claims with BP for loss of income resulting from the disaster. Click here for a summary of the claims process to assist you in seeking compensation for your business. For more information, please contact your HBK advisor.
For more information, please contact your HBK advisor or call your local HBK office:
Foley: (251) 943-5499
Fairhope: (251) 928-2443
Spanish Fort: (251) 626-0846
Brewton: (251) 867-3809
For more information, please see the latest news on the following links:
Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce: http://www.eschamber.com/
Hartmann, Blackmon & Kilgore, P.C.: http://www.hbkcpas.com/
Alabama Gulf Coast Convention & Visitors Bureau: http://www.gulfshores.com/issues
Deepwater Horizon Response: http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/
Photo Courtesy of the Mobile Press-Register.
We chose dinner and found a selection of gourmet pizza at its finest.
Both reviewers had un-sweet tea but were offered wine, mixed drinks, and Coke-Cola products as an alternative. We started off our meal with the calamari appetizer, which was served lightly battered with a very delicate but spicy lemon butter dipping sauce unlike any we’ve ever had. One reviewer stated that the calamari was unique enough to be a highlight of its own for the restaurant.
As you can see from the picture, it’s a delicious, hand-made pizza that is served fresh. We didn’t ask if it could be made to order. But judging from what we saw in the kitchen it wouldn’t be hard to get your pizza exactly the way you prefer, given some time.
Ozio provides an atmosphere that’s available for special occasions, a reason to be romantic and families. When you consider the quality at the same price, if not a better price than the corporate chains that really never put that extra care into the experience like Ozio does, you know for sure that you’ve found a keeper. 
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Have you ever had a taco that you just couldn’t put down and when you were done with it you just wanted another one? We have, and they come from Los Tacos Fresh Mexican Grill in Daphne, AL. You can call them at (251) 626-6110. They’re right next to Taco Bell (imagine that) and it’s so much better. The prices and wait time is comparable so there’s absolutely no reason not to try them out. Los Tacos has eight different preparations of meat: Ground Beef, Chicken, Shredded Beef, Steak – Asada, Carnitas, Lengua, Pastor and Cabeza. And Los Tacos menu ranges from $0.79 to about $8.49 (Fajitas) and is mostly on the cheaper side.
You can visit Los Tacos online at 
Take a break from the normal “ho-hum” of local South Alabama eating and go have an authentic Taste of New Orleans, located in Fairhope, Alabama. I’d heard about A Taste of New Orleans before from our family and colleagues. After tweeting with 
Since I like to try new foods, the Fromage Poulet, Wednesday’s special of the day, sounded pretty enticing. The recipe comes from owner Monica Tucker and was created for her family as the menu states. It has a creamy cheese sauce consistency mixed with seasoning, Chicken and tomatoes topped off with freshly cooked white rice. We got a side of French bread and some cole slaw. This wasn’t your ordinary, run-of-the-mill, cole slaw either. It was a fantastic blend of finely shredded cabbage, mayonnaise, carrots and other good stuff as well as brown mustard that gave it just the right amount of kick. Easily I can say there’s nothing else around like this meal – and it was good! It took 1 minute to get my drink and 2 minutes later I was chowing down on my entrée. Great stop for quick in and out for lunch time!
Customarily as you would at any good cafe or restaurant for lunch in New Orleans, I finished off my meal with an order of coffee and beignets. Yes, I know there’s another place in Fairhope that serves beignets, but A Taste of New Orleans easily can be ranked #1 at scoring my vote at Best Beignets outside of New Orleans. Best of all, I don’t have to drive 300 miles to get them – A Taste of New Orleans is just a hop, skip and a jump away for me in Fairhope (and in two places at that)!
At one point or another in our lives, we weren’t experts in our fields and we weren’t born that way either. We were the people who broke our backs to bring in money and grew up knowing what we didn’t want in our future and setting higher goals for ourselves. As a point of humility and openness, I happened to work at this particular Olive Garden I’m writing a review about a very long time ago before I even owned TurkReno Incorporated. I know that it may seem or sound bias to even go back to do a review of somewhere that I used to work, but the management and staff is 100% different now and my assistant and I were hungry. 
So what’s our beef with Olive Garden #1656 in Spanish Fort (located at 30500-D State Highway 181, Spanish Fort, AL 36527 – just in case somehow they manage to build two there’s a separation)? Let’s start from the top. We arrived at the restaurant at 6:45PM on a noticeably slow Thursday evening. A true “Hospitaliano” (Term registered to Olive Garden) experience starts off with you being greeted at the door with a warm welcome, not a blunt and unpleasant “How many?”. So we get seated in a booth. It takes approximately 6 minutes before our server even notices that we’re present only to be told their name and asked what we wanted to drink while they’re manning a completely empty section. The restaurant is NOT busy – at max, 20% capacity.
We order the Calamari as a starter. The server then takes our order, which is really simple: one Spaghetti with Meatballs and one Stuffed Chicken Marsala with extra mushrooms (yes, I love mushrooms as you may know from our previous reviews). It took about 10 minutes to get our appetizer and our salad with breadsticks. Now we’re at around 22 minutes, just to get started on eating – and we’re both starving at this point. The Calamari is sloppy: the breading is falling off of the squid and it’s almost as if it’s a little wet. Edible, but just not good at all. It should have been an indicator of the next to come. One of the “secret tricks” of Olive Garden is they hope you gorge yourself on the Breadsticks, which are good, so that they can distract you from how long it takes to get your entree. About 7 minutes later, we’re served our food. Here’s where the disaster sets in. As I said before, I ordered a Stuffed Chicken Marsala with extra mushrooms. Instead, I get this charbroiled stack of chicken with no mushrooms at all that would be easily comparable to the 
Here’s where the Double Down begins. Both the server AND the manager forget to take the food away from me. I’m sitting here, watching the clock and now I’m taking photos of this heat-lamp baked crisp chicken and tweeting it by nine minutes into lap 3 and I’m getting mad. Why? Because I know that it should only take 8-10 minutes to get a Chicken Marsala and everyone is huddling in the lobby including our server and the manager. I’ve had to sit here for right at 20 minutes and stare at this nasty food that I’m about to be re-served. 15 and a half minutes later, I finally get my meal at 7:33PM – 45 minutes after into coming to the restaurant on a dead Thursday night starving.
Now for the bad. I have downloaded games through the Nintendo WFC yet, even with a linked account to Club Nintendo, I am not able to download those purchases. So basically Nintendo dropped the ball yet again on their wireless end. I hope these issues are fixed by the time we see the 3DS, or the successor to the Wii. I mean this is kind of a big deal. This means that somewhere someone at some Gamestop in Alabama gets all my hand-me-down games. Unacceptable, Nintendo.
