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Parrotthead Pass
Price includes all food, three alcoholic beverages, tax, and gratuity at the restaurants.
$ 99
Come spend an afternoon in the Mobile that made Jimmy Buffett. Savor the Son of a Sailor is a food tour built around the Port City kid who grew up here long before Margaritaville, back when good food and a good time were just how you did a Saturday. As we walk the downtown he knew, we’ll share the stories of his childhood in Mobile and how this city worked its way into his music and his appetite. Every stop is a dish pulled from his life and his songs: a Cheeseburger in Paradise, oysters and gumbo, fresh popcorn, and beignets with a key lime twist. And you’ll raise three of Jimmy’s favorite boat drinks along the way, a frozen concoction and an ice cold beer among them, as we toast his life, his music, and the town that started it all.
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Squid Ink
Jimmy developed his love for a good cheeseburger at local places here in Mobile. Start the tour with iconic “Cheeseburger in Paradise”, just the way Jimmy recommends! We also start with tour with a Margarita, a nod to his other famous tune, “Margaritaville”.
A&M Peanut Shop
Fresh popcorn from a Mobile institution, and a nod to the little joys Jimmy never stopped writing about.
Chicken District
Sunday’s for Jimmy meant church, then his dad’s fried chicken and potato salad. We serve that same comfort and tell you why it mattered.
Wintzell’s Oyster House
Gumbo, oysters, and cold beer – Gulf Coast living in one stop! Seafood was the heartbeat of the Buffett house, from Friday gumbo to freshly shucked oysters.
Moe’s Original Bar B Que
The Bushwacker – the infamous “frozen concoction” that will help you hang on!
Mo’Bay Beignet Co.
We end sweet, the Jimmy’s mom taught him to start. Warm beignets with a key lime twist, and a reminder to savor the good stuff while you can!
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Long before the sold-out stadiums and the frozen concoctions, Jimmy Buffett was a kid from the Port City. He was born across the bay in Pascagoula, grew up here in Mobile, and graduated from McGill Institute in 1964. His dad worked the shipyard. His Sundays were fried chicken and gumbo. And somewhere in there, a skeleton at a Mardi Gras parade taught him how to laugh at just about anything.
We built this tour so that every stop is a dish, and every dish is a story from his life. You eat your way through his Mobile while we tell you where it all started.