The restaurant scene in Mobile just keeps getting better. As the new year and decade began, several new eateries opened or made plans to move or expand, with more to come throughout the year. Here are just a few of the most-anticipated spots making Mobile an even more delicious dining and drinking destination.

1. Bake My Day

This “old-fashioned Southern bakery” featuring made-from-scratch recipes opened in Spring Hill in 2012 and will move to the historic former Ashland Fire Station in Midtown later this year.

Address: 2407 Old Shell Road

Website: bakemydaymobile.com

Opening date: TBD

Butter dream cake, available by the slice at Bake My Day

2. Bar B Quing with My Honey

Originating in Mount Vernon in 2002, this restaurant moved to Mobile’s Loop area in the former Bay Gourmet location, where it serves “just plain good bar b que and some really good soul food and seafood.”

Address: 1880-A Airport Blvd.

Opening: Opened Jan. 3

Website: facebook.com/BarBQuingWithMyHoney/

Banana pudding at Bar-b-quing with my Honey

3. Blaze Pizza

Part of a 300-unit chain that started in California in 2012, Blaze features build-your-own, hand-fired pizzas with fresh ingredients you select on an assembly line.

Address: Legacy Village Shopping Center

Website: blazepizza.com

Opening date: TBD

Blaze Pizza lets you build your own pizza from an assortment of ingredients.Shutterstock Custom

4. Braided River Brewing Co.

It’s a taproom, not technically a restaurant, but you can order food from nearby Roosters and have it delivered to your table, or purchase some Hippie Dip with sourdough chips (made by Chef Garrick Ogburn of Nourish Cafe) right at the bar. Braided River, named for the waterways that form the Mobile River Delta, specializes in craft beer and live bands.

Address: 420 St. Louis St.

Opening date: Opened Jan. 22

Website: www.braidedriverbrewing.com/

Freshly brewed beers from Braided River Brewing Co.

5. The Cheese Merchant

Fueled by the success of The Cheese Cottage on St. Louis Street, where customers enjoy charcuterie boards as well as sandwiches, soups and salads, The Cheese Merchant will offer small plates and tapas centered around – what else? – cheese.

Address: 56 St. Joseph St. in the Merchants National Bank Building

Website: thecheesecottagellc.com/

Opening date: June

The pear and Gorgonzola salad from The Cheese Cottage

6. Coffee Monster

For the past 15 months, Coffee Monster has operated with a limited menu inside Bel Air Mall, but soon it will bloom in its own space designed by Steve Stone of dakinstreet architects. In addition to a reserve bar with specialty coffees for high-end coffee drinkers, this shop will offer light brunches, salads and pastries as well as fresh juices and protein powders.

Address: 100 N. Florida St. (next to The Simple Greek)

Opening date: July

Website: facebook.com/pg/coffeemonstermobile

A "cup of happiness" at Coffee Monster, coming this year to the Publix shopping center in Midtown.

7. Foy Superfoods

“Eat fresh, eat clean” is the motto at Foy Superfoods (“Foy” is an acronym for “fountain of youth”), which opened in downtown Mobile in November of 2016. The super-healthy, super-tasty restaurant is now serving cold-pressed juices, superfood smoothies, acai bowls, specialty salads and more at a new West Mobile location.

Address: 6345 Airport Blvd. in Piccadilly Square

Opening date: Opened Jan. 14

Website: foysuperfoods.com

The Power Pitaya Bowl at Foy Superfoods

8. Gwen’s House

Mobile rapper Young Bleu opened this gourmet soul-food restaurant in a former Applebee’s. On the menu: fried chicken wings, gumbo, smothered oxtails with homemade chitterlings, baked macaroni and cheese, red beans and rice, chicken and waffles and much more.

Address: 4940 Government Blvd.

Opening date: Opened Jan. 1

Website: facebook.com/gwenshouse251/

Fried fish with gouda grits and green onions at Gwen's House

9. The Hummingbird Way

Chef Jim Smith, the former executive chef for the state of Alabama and a two-time competitor on Bravo’s “Top Chef,” moved from Montgomery to Mobile last year to open his first restaurant, The Hummingbird Way, in the space formerly occupied by Kitchen on George, in the heart of the Oakleigh Garden District. The menu focuses on locally sourced ingredients and Gulf seafood.

Address: 351 George St.

Opening date: Opened Jan. 7

Website: thehummingbirdway.com

Marinated crab claws are a popular appetizer at The Hummingbird Way, Chef Jim Smith's elegant new restaurant in the Oakleigh Garden District.

10. Las Floriditas

After years of planning, Bob Baumhower, the former Miami Dolphins player and restaurateur, has finally opened his Hemingway-esque speakeasy in the bottom of the RSA Trustmark Bank Building, where his fine-dining restaurant, Dauphin’s, occupies the 34th floor. Find the password to enter the concealed bar on the Facebook page. (Hint: The word is in bold italics.) Attire is dressy, so plan your outfit accordingly.

Address: 107 St. Francis St.

Opening date: Opened Feb. 11

Website: lasfloriditas.com/

Guests need the password, released daily on Las Floridita's Facebook page, to enter.

11. Mirko Midtown Bar & Grill

A second location of Mirko Pasta – the first one is in Legacy Village – will open at the former home of Regina’s Kitchen at the Loop. The new location will also serve stone-baked pizzas and will eventually offer breakfast sandwiches and coffees at the drive-thru.

Address: 2056 Government Blvd.

Website: facebook.com/mirkolegacyvillage/

Opening date: March

Eggplant Parmesan at Mirko Pasta in Legacy Village

12. Mo’Bay Beignet Co.

There’s no need to travel to New Orleans for fresh, hot beignets. This new dessert spot kicks it up a notch by topping their beignets with buttercream or cinnamon-flavored syrups. You can even take home some of the mix to try making them yourself.

Address: 451 Dauphin St.

Website: mobaybeignetco.com

Opening date: Opened Feb. 6

Hot, fresh beignets in downtown Mobile? Yes!

13. Taste of Thai

This family-owned Thai restaurant has been a local favorite, serving authentic Pad Thai, crab fried rice and other specialties since it opened nearly 14 years in Irvington. But soon it will move to a brand-new, larger location in west Mobile on Dawes Road near Cottage Hill.

Address: Dawes Road

Opening date: June

Website: facebook.com/Taste-of-Thai-138853716162109/

Pad Thai with Shrimp at Taste of Thai

14. Thy Neighbor

After celebrating one year in business at Nova Espresso, owners Tim and Claire Guatreaux, in partnership with local entrepreneur Brad Custred, are adding an L-shaped, 1,200-foot space to the back of their super-cool building that will become Thy Neighbor. The new craft cocktail bar will be connected to the coffee shop through a kitchen that will serve unique, Southern-inspired small plates.

Address: 306 St. Anthony St.

Opening date: Late summer or early fall

Website: novaespresso,coffee

A new craft cocktail bar will open adjacent to Nova Espresso in DeTonti Square later this year.

15. VooDoo Wing Co.

With locations in Las Vegas, Auburn and Tuscaloosa, VooDoo Wing Co. is now open in Mobile in the former Fuzzy’s location across from the University of South Alabama. Wings are the thing here, of course – with your choice of flavor and/or heat and dipping sauce.

Address: 5713 Old Shell Road

Opening date: Opened Jan. 27

Website: voodoowingco.com

Some say there's magic in these VooDoo wings.

16. The Yummi Crab

A new seafood restaurant, with locations in Columbia, S.C., and Virginia Beach, Va., will open at the former Melting Pot location. The Yummi Crab specializes in seafood, either fried or boiled, with different flavors and levels of spiciness.

Address: 840 Montlimar Dr.

Opening date: TBD

Website: yummicrab.com