Liberty Restaurant
1 Review for Liberty Restaurant
On a weekend morning with no writing deadlines and laundry and dishes pushed off, we gathered ourselves and went on a roadtrip. By mid-afternoon, having reached our destination several hours earlier and once wandering had grown tiresome, we arrived at the Liberty Restaurant in Scottsboro, Alabama.
With a plate of fried chicken and with an apparent side of Ore Ida crinkle cut french fries, it's hard to not balk at the food. Even though the fried chicken is better than most you'll find at other places, it's delivered without any such claims of being 'the best', or any of the many superlatives and adjectives that simply add to the hype that only sets you up for a big let down. Liberty Restaurant serves good fried chicken, and on that weekend afternoon with the hours ticking away, there are few places I'd rather be than there with my girlfriend and the knowledge that we still had the drive back.
Because roadtrips are our thing. It's our time, our meager attempt at real travel but not the limited and mutated form experienced through flights and airports, but across landscapes and country sides. When you turn off a highway and hope to get lost, in search of nothing but always happy with what you find.
The Liberty Restaurant in Scottsboro, Alabama is nearly perfect. It's great where it can be and falters everywhere you would want it to. With one dining room decorated with turquoise blue chairs and bright pink checkered tiles, and the other room using the opposite color scheme of neon pink chairs and turqoise checkered square tiles, it's awesomely mismatched with the fake wood paneling still hanging from a 70's remodeling job.
Passing through the pasture towns stringed along a two lane highway, it's a rare escape and it's on trips like these that I find my breath. When I don't know where we're going to end up. When the Liberty Restaurant is all of a sudden the most memorable moment of a roadtrip and I never knew it existed until then. With the open road winding and twisting into areas I've never seen, the shallow breath I keep while sitting at my desk in this office is freed and being in the moment was never so real.
Liberty Restaurant in Scottsboro, Alabama is great if you happen to find yourself in town on a weekend afternoon. The food is passable, and the town has few surprises. But none of that was ever the reason why we left the main freeway and drove through towns with no names and getting lost was always a great choice.
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