The Yardarm Restaurant on the Municipal Pier in Fairhope, AL

Just a note from our road trip of the last couple weeks:  Fairhope is a sort of upscale suburb of Mobile that is across Mobile Bay from the Big Town and is within about an hour of Gulf Shores.  The Barfly is something of a cheapskate, if you didn't know, and staying in the suburbs was 'way less expensive than either downtown Mobile or the Shores.  The Key West Inn (part of a chain I didn't know about) was a great little hotel about 2 miles from downtown Fairhope, which is kind of like Old Towne Carmel, for you Indy residents:  lots of little boutiques, coffee shops, and antique shops.  The Municipal Pier is in a beautiful park on the Bay, and about 100 feet out on the pier is The Yardarm, a tiny little place that serves the best seafood we had the entire trip, which is saying something.  During our week there I ate my weight in oysters at several restaurants, fixed every way possible, and they were all  large, fresh, and tasty, but the fried oysters at the Yardarm were sooooo tender and juicy, with a light batter and a gentle seafood flavor that wasn't even the least bit "fishy".  A basket of those with two Corona Lights and I was ready for a nap on a bench out on the pier, if it weren't for those pesky herrons begging for leftovers....