Embassy Suites Tuscaloosa Alabama Downtown will be temporarily closed for maintenance beginning in March of 2025. This includes Side By Side restaurant located inside the hotel. Embassy Suites and Side By Side plan to reopen in Fall of 2025.
The Side By Side is a contemporary, high-energy restaurant created by Chef Chris Hastings, winner of the 2012 James Bead Award, chef and co-owners of Hot and Hot Fish Club in Birmingham, Alabama. The name is partially based around his old and beloved 28-gauge shotgun, a side-by-side.
“I’ve always been an avid outdoorsman, a hunter and fisherman, all my life,” he said. While searching for a name, Hastings was asked: What will tie this restaurant to you?
“But it’s also about the restaurant being attached, side-by-side with the hotel, and people sitting down together. … There are a lot of metaphorical opportunities there.”
And it’s just The Side By Side.
The restaurant takes a modern approach to blending French, Southern, and California-styles of cooking within the context of the Deep South. Our southern hospitality permeates the staff and dining experience as well.
