One could safely say, however, that the eating landscape in Birmingham would look very different now, and there almost certainly would be no Niki's West, a mid-century steak joint that is also a cafeteria, which also serves breakfast from bright and early, most every morning.
There is a distinct possibility that boom-era Birmingham would have figured out how to feed itself, had the Greek restaurateurs failed to show up, joining all of the others that worked so hard to turn a relative nowhere into an industrial powerhouse, into the Pittsburgh of the South.
