.lawrencespecker gives us some insight into why the Alabama beach staple DeSoto’s Seafood Kitchen is still going strong and filled with regulars and summertime visitors after decades. And why DeSoto's was named a Southern_Living Gulf Shores favorite:
and two of the places stood out to my eye. Where most were big, high-volume places clearly built to capitalize on the tourist market, two were old-school, family owned restaurants that had stayed the course while modern-day Gulf Shores rose around them., during the Hangout Music Fest, and found it to be a quiet, cool haven where the fried shrimp and oyster plate came with more shrimp than I cared to eat. But the other place had closed for the festival, which was practically on its doorstep.
Nearby in the upstairs dining room, a table full of folks talked about the ins and outs of towing RVs. Vacationers. A family with small kids took another table. Probably vacationers. But the majority of the people in the room were tradesmen taking their lunch break – and that alone has a lot to say about the value a place offers.
She grew up in Gulf Shores and had no expectation of going into the restaurant business. She said her future husband grew up in Mobile but spent summers at the beach, getting an early start in the business. “We joke around in the wintertime,” Rosemary Steele said. “If you went by corporate rules and how your numbers are supposed to be and all these things, we’d be fired. But our employees mean more to us than labor costs in the winter. Making sure they can pay their bills. Because you know what? I need these people in the summer when we’re getting murdered. I need to have skilled people who know how to operate. And it’s worth it for us to take the hit a little bit in the off-season.
“Dinner’s a totally different beast, this time of year,” she said. Waits can run to an hour and a half, two hours. It’s a chronic complaint for locals that they can’t find a place to go eat dinner without running into that kind of traffic. So the Steeles have invested in an online system that’ll not only predict wait times, it’ll send you reminders about when you need to get on the list to eat at the time you want.
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