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What Is Mobile, Alabama’s Oldest Restaurant? (The Real Answer)

Updated May 2026 The short version: Most Mobilians believe the Dew Drop Inn (1924) is the oldest restaurant in Mobile, Alabama. The Dew Drop even advertises itself that way on its Old Shell Road sign. But Morrison’s Cafeteria opened its doors in Mobile on September 4, 1920, four years earlier. By any reasonable definition…