Take flight in the Best Place to Live: Huntsville, Alabama. Flights or small samples of a variety of food or drink are the perfect way to get familiar with the establishment and learn what it has to offer, letting your taste buds ‘take flight’ to various flavors, textures, smells, and tastes. Huntsville has no shortage of flights. Here a 5 unique flights to experience in Huntsville.
Flight Plan Wine & Tapas
We must start a flight list with the obvious choice, Flight Plan Wine & Tapas. You can find this location in the picturesque area of Jones Valley, and true to its name, this restaurant and wine bar has flights of wine. The wine flights are 2oz pours of 4 wines served one at a time to try at your leisure. The menu offers flight options like: “Wine Bouquet” featuring wines with beautiful aromas, “Bubbles Galore” with sparkling wines from different grape varieties, or “Spicy is Nice” with wines with spicy notes from around the world.
The food menu has tapas, or small bites, which you can also turn into a food flight. I suggest ordering the sweet and savory stuffed dates, fried deviled eggs, spicy Marcona almonds, charcuterie boards, pizzas, hoisin salmon, and more. Along with wine, they also offer whiskey flights where you can design your flight of 4 half oz pours.
Address: 2710 Carl T Jones Dr. SE Ste. A Huntsville, AL 35802
Hammerheads Daiquri Bar
Huntsville now has a dedicated bar celebrating the sweet and sometimes tart and sour blended frozen delights of the rum-based daiquiri. Take your flight to one of the many oversized couches, sit at the bar or a table, and pace yourself for this brain freeze moment! You can choose four daiquiris ‘on tap’ served in 4oz pours.
Flavors like: TSGFB Strawberry & Lemon, BaeCation Pineapple Splash, blue raspberry, Nice Creamy pina colada, JuiceBox Peach, and more! One virgin daiquiri flavor is always offered at the bar too. Food includes brunch items like waffles, French toast, grits, and brunch poutine. Sandwiches, burgers, quesadillas.
Address: 1426 Paramount Drive Huntsville, AL 35806
Ravenwood Meadery
Try the nectar of the gods in tiny little portion sizes. This ancient beverage is a honey-based alcoholic drink. You can find this unique shop on the second floor of Lowe Mill ARTS and Entertainment. Head up the person-powered elevator, pass the indoor wooden swings, and discover this hidden gem among local art in a historic old factory. Mead on tap changes weekly.
Choose three meads and one cocktail and enjoy in the meadery bar. You may get to try the House Mead (traditional honey mead), Jord (house mead with ginger reduction and Ceylon cinnamon), Dreamstaves (house mead with lavender and vanilla), or Thor Cocktail (house mead with bitters and house lime cordial and lemon-lime soda). Buy a bottle of mead while you are here to take home and grab some hollowed and carved wood and horn mugs and steins.
Address: 2211 Seminole Dr SW Studio 2069 Huntsville, AL 35805 (second floor of Lowe Mill A&E)
Co-Op Brewery
Beer - of course, we have a beer flight on here! Most breweries will have flights to try, which makes them the perfect thing to order to explore the local beer scene in one sitting. Co-Op Brewery has five different breweries in one location with guest brewers offering their selections frequently and features the *unofficial longest bar in Alabama with over 40 beers on tap!
This location is in the iconic Stovehouse located near downtown Huntsville. A multiuse revamped and reimagined old stove factory that hosts a food garden, brewery, shops, green space, live music, and more.
Address: 3414 Governors Dr SW Hutsville, AL 35805 (Stovehouse)
Rocket City Coffee Company
The perfect flight doesn’t exist--{{coffee flight enters the chat}}. Rocket City Coffee Company offers hot or iced coffee flights, tea flights, and create your own flights. They can accommodate most dietary needs if you need sugar-free, vegan, or dairy-free. This flight rotates weekly, so check out their social media to stay on top of their flight offering. You will have the choice of three or four 4oz pours served on a board and labeled. They even offer kid-friendly flights with caffeine-free teas and Italian sodas. Flights are available at both locations.
Take flight and explore Huntsville through the sights, smells, and tastes of Huntsville in the perfect little portion sizes.
Addresses: 6594 Wall Triana Hwy Suite C/D Madison, AL 35757 / 1392 Jordan Rd Suite D Huntsville, AL 35811
