Tasty Bytes: LawLer’s Barbecue and Tech Company Kiage Develop Video Game

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“We’re a perfect, quirky place for a quirky culture that video games can be built around.”

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All Aboard! Rolo’s Cafe is Back on Track

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The train is rolling again at Rolo’s Cafe. The popular “meat-and-three” restaurant off Airport Road in South Huntsville in Westbury Square is open again after closing just last month. The store reopened last Friday and, by lunchtime, seats were full and a line was formed at the cash register. “We have loyal customers, very loyal,’’ […]

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Farmers’ Markets Grow With Wide Variety of Goods

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Mention to someone you’ve been to the farmers market and they likely will think of summer squash, corn, honey and other items grown and harvested to sell from a pickup truck bed or under a tent. Discerning shoppers know to arrive early for the best pickin’ so they can visit with friends or head elsewhere. […]

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Mexibbean Island Grill Coming to North Huntsville

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“Everything is irie mon.” In fact, something delightful is coming soon to the north side of town and it promises to be a tropical staycation for the taste buds.  Next month, restaurateur John C. Baker and his wife Shanice are opening their unique Mexican-Caribbean fusion dining experience in Huntsville’s Lincoln Mill Village area.  At the […]

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Popular Rolo’s Café Closes After 30 Years; Viet House Coming to Westbury Square

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The elevated train has stopped for the final time at Rolo’s Café on Airport Road. After 30 years, the popular meat-and-three establishment is closed for good. Although a sign on the front window by the door says “Temporarily Closed,” a person who declined to provide her name confirmed that it’s permanent. Rolo Weaver opened his […]

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Pressing on Through Pandemic, Marvinia Adams named Catalyst Entrepreneur of the Year

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Marvinia Adams, owner of Martinizing Dry Cleaning and this year’s Catalyst Veteran Entrepreneur of the Year award winner, has plenty of reasons to celebrate. After taking over the local dry-cleaning franchise in June 2019, Adams recently passed the two-year mark. In any other given year, this would be noteworthy, but during one of the most […]

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Town Madison Groundbreaking Sets Table for Smorgasbord of Restaurants

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MADISON — Neither a yearlong pandemic, labor shortages, a long delay getting construction materials, a complete building redesign, nor the threat of rain, could stop the lollapalooza of restaurants announcing they are coming or expanding to Town Madison this week.  Five Guys, Super Chix, Outback Steakhouse, Slim Chickens, and a new restaurant concept known as […]

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Madison Business Expo & Kid’s Day Back in Swing With Baseball Theme

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MADISON — It was a grand slam out of the skatepark for the 2021 Madison Business Expo & Kid’s Day at the Insanity Complex. In honor of the new Rocket City Trash Pandas, the theme this year was “Baseball.” More than 50 Madison businesses, all decked out in baseball themes, provided business networking opportunities and […]

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Sitdown with Success: Ashok Singhal of CFD Research

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Sitdown with Success is a feature of the Huntsville Business Journal on entrepreneurs and their keys to success. Our July subject is Ashok Singhal, founder of CFD Research. According to the textbooks, computational fluid dynamics uses complex computer algorithms for modeling and simulating the flow of fluids, gases, heat, and electric currents to make technological […]

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HASBAT Hosting Small Business Showcase at Annual SMD Symposium

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Attention, small business government contractors! Companies that provide and develop unique services and products to support the aerospace and defense systems are urged to take part in the inaugural Space & Missile Defense Small Business Showcase. The showcase is hosted by the Huntsville Association of Small Businesses in Advanced Technology from Aug. 10-12 at the […]

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