Gravitate to Huntsville, Alabama, and enjoy music-related food in the Rocket City during Music Month, September. Where live music and the growing music scene in Huntsville shines.
Here are some music affiliated food and drink in options in The Rocket City as well as venues that host live music.
Goodland Pour House
933 Bob Wallace Ave, Huntsville, AL
This gastropub near downtown in the Medical District is a fun and family-friendly bar and restaurant with patio seating, bar seating, and indoor seating. Make sure you find the outdoor pizza wing mural for a delicious selfie after your meal.
Here one of the most popular items on the menu and the Chef’s Go-To is the NOTORIUS P.I.E, Detroit style pizza (square deep dish) . Mozzarella & White Cheddar, Red Sauce, Pepperoni, Pickled Jalapeno, Mike’s Hot Honey, and dollops of creamy burrata. Named after the American Rapper, The Notorious B.I.G Split the pizza with a friend and balance the meal with a fresh salad.
BERRY GARCIA SALAD
Fresh strawberries, creamy goat cheese, GPH pecan granola, quinoa, and craisins over arugula. Tossed with house balsamic vinaigrette. Named after the American Musician, Jerry Garcia from the band The Grateful Dead.
Rock n' Roll Sushi
2500 Clinton Ave, Huntsville, AL (near downtown at Campus 805)
9056 Memorial Pkwy, Huntsville, AL (south Huntsville)
American Style Sushi Restaurant. Rock ‘n’ Roll music and décor with sushi rolls that began in Mobile, Alabama.
Menu calls the appetizers OPENING ACTS with items like Headbanger Shrimp, Stage Divers and the visually stunning Twisted Tuna.
GREEN ROOM is the menu of salads, HEADLINERS are the entrée offerings like the Axl Roll, VIP Roll, Punk Rock Roll, Sweet Home Alabama roll, and more.
They even offer an AFTER PARTY with sweet treats like the Hall of Fame Brownie.
Pizzelle’s Confections
2500 Clinton Ave, Huntsville, AL (near downtown, near Campus 805)
Award winning Artisan chocolate shop and dessert café. This chocolate is more than a sweet treat, they are works of art and with unique themes and names. Music themed items frequent the rotation like truffles; Sexyback, Goodbye Earl, Nutty by Nature, Sweet Dreams are Made of This, Walking on Sunshine, Basil B**ch, Mama Said Knock You Out, Afternoon Delight, Mama-I’m Coming Home.
They also have a café menu including savory items, lattes, cocktails, mini cakes and macarons, housemade marshmallows and more treats.
In the shop and back patio seating is available.
Rhythm on Monroe
700 Monroe Street, Huntsville, AL
(downtown HSV next to Von Braun Center & Mars Music Hall)
Restaurant and Rooftop bar compliments a night out listening to local music and touring artists. It is connected to the VBC and Mars Music Hall. This restaurant also hosts their own live music weekly.
Menu is music themed including SOUND CHECK starters and OPENING ACTS appetizers like Thai Spring Rolls, Hot Southern Crab Dip, and Salads. INTERMISSION items offered like Classic Rock Burger, Rhythm Reuben. HEADLINERS like House-Smoked DUROC Pork Chop, Grilled Chicken Piccata, and ends with GROUPIES. Bar Menu and BRUNCH options like Eggs Bennie & the Jets.
Furniture Factory Bar & Grill
619 Meridian St, Huntsville, AL (near downtown HSV) The Original Rustic Spot
7 Town Center Drive, Huntsville, AL (in the Providence area) New & Polished
This 21 and up sports bar has been around for many years in Huntsville and hosts live music on the back patio space weekly and Karaoke options each week.
The menu offers bar food like burgers, fries, and wings. The Providence location offers brunch, too.
The Camp
5909 University Drive, Huntsville, AL (midcity area near Orion Amphitheater)
Outdoor small-scale music and event venue. Covered areas from sun and rain with a fully functioning bar and restaurant with events daily. Greenroom Coffee Shop, Tamarind Island Grille, and Camp Restaurant offer a wide variety of foods, from vegan to Caribbean, chicken tenders, burgers, quesadillas, and more. Unique spaces to enjoy music and your company with seating areas around fire pits, covered mini pavilions, bar nooks, and tucked-away spots. The small stage allows for great views and sound.
The Orion Amphitheater
701 Amphitheater Huntsville, AL (midcity area)
Award-winning outdoor amphitheater with seating for 8,000. A space for community, culture, and live music for local artists and touring artists. Sustainability is important at this venue, as well as recycling and compostable paper goods. Smaller outdoor music and venue space is also utilized here for live music and events on the grounds of Orion, and a separate bar called Jeff & Blues that offers live music and bar.
Many food and drink options at the Orion with elevated dishes from Chef Josh Quick of Odette ( a popular restaurant from Florence, AL) and a canned beer, Orion Helles, brewed exclusively for Orion from Huntsville Brewery, Yellow Hammer.
Stovehouse
3414 Governors Drive, Huntsville, AL
Stovehouse is an outdoor music venue, shopping, food, exercise and leisure space. A reimagined and transformed old stove factory.
Live music is alive here as there is a calendar of events and the music and food garden as well as the indoor venue space of Electric Belle. The food garden hosts a variety of restaurants that encourage grabbing the food to go and sit in the main area and listen to live music. There are swings, picnic benches, covered spaces, indoor space with air conditioning and a small roof top to enjoy eating, drinking and music.
