A development deal will bring two popular restaurants to downtown Homewood next year.

Pihakis Restaurant Group and Capstone Real Estate Investments have announced plans to develop new locations of Rodney Scott’s BBQ and Little Donkey Mexican Restaurant along the block at 28th Avenue South and 18th Street South near The Valley Hotel, part of the Curio by Hilton concept.

The restaurants will sit side-by-side and are scheduled to open in the spring or summer of 2021.

Rodney Scott, a Pihakis Restaurant Group partner and winner of the 2018 James Beard Award for “Best Chef Southeast,” brought his South Carolina style of Whole Hog BBQ to Avondale early last year.

Little Donkey, part of Homewood for eight years, was founded by Joshua Gentry, a Homewood resident and Pihakis Restaurant Group partner. Its current Homewood location is on Central Avenue, with others in Montgomery and Hoover.